Institution profile

Elisabeth Hospital Essen was founded as early as 1844 and, with its more than 175-year history, is the oldest hospital in the major city of North Rhine-Westphalia. As an acute care hospital, it employs around 1,300 staff and offers 513 beds. Since 2006, it has been part of Contilia, a social services, Catholic services, and partner company, that operates numerous other medical and care-related facilities in the region around Essen. The hospital sees itself as a link between medical-technical know-how and modern medical infrastructure. In addition to thirteen specialist departments – for example in the fields of Diabetology, Vascular Surgery and Phlebology, as well as Kidney and High Pressure Diseases – the UMFST-UMCH Teaching Hospital also includes seven centers. These include a Gynecologic Tumor Center, an Esophageal Disease Center, and a Pediatric Neurologic Center. UMFST-UMCH students can thus expect a wide range of specialties and disciplines here for their clinical-practical training, which they complete starting in their 3rd year of study.