Institution profile

St. Vincenz Hospital Limbrug was founded in 1850 and has 523 beds with 28,000 patients per year, who are cared for by over 1,500 employees. The hospital’s medical-technical equipment is at the most modern level and supports the physicians in diagnosis and therapy. Treatment paths are constantly being developed to provide the best possible care for the people in the region. In order to ensure excellently trained personnel, St. Vincenz Hospital also operates what is known as the BILDUNGSWERKstadt – an academy for health care professionals.

During their practical phase, students can gain insights into a total of fifteen specialist departments. These include Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, as well as Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. In addition, the hospital has a stroke unit where acute strokes are treated. Students can benefit from the hospital’s broad-based team of experts and their expertise in a variety of fields. The department heads consist of experienced and accomplished academic teaching staff with current teaching assignments at the university hospitals in Aachen, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Göttingen and Heidelberg.