University Hospital Graz Clinic

University Hospital Graz (LKH-Universitätsklinikum Graz) is the largest clinic in Austria and the leading medical center in the country, located in Graz. Opened in 1912 as the largest hospital in Europe, since 2002 the center has been jointly managed by KAGes and the Medical University of Graz. Here, patient care, practical education and cutting-edge scientific research are combined on one site. The complex includes 18 university clinics, divided into more than 40 specialized departments. Among them: anesthesiology, surgery (general, vascular, cardio, plastic, thoracic), internal medicine (cardiology, oncology, gastroenterology), neurology, orthopedics, as well as transfusion medicine and immunohematology. A special place is occupied by the children's clinic, which receives up to 100,000 outpatients a year. Historical note: The clinic is named after the doctor Leopold Auenbrugger, the discoverer of the percussion method. In 1923, 1927 and 1936, its employees became Nobel Prize laureates. The first kidney transplants in Austria (1969) and heart transplants (1983) were performed here, and the first MRI scanner in the country was installed (1987). Today, more than 7,200 employees annually provide inpatient treatment for 84,000 people and 386,000 outpatient appointments. On the territory there is one of the largest biobanks in the world (more than 20 million samples) for genetic research. The institution's mission is based on the biopsychosocial model — treating the patient as an individual in the unity of physical and mental health.