Aarhus University Hospital (AUH) is a

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located in

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. The hospital develops and provides highly specialised medical treatment, research and education at an international level. The university hospital's headquarters and main department, known as The New University Hospital (DNU), is the largest single hospital in Denmark and one of the largest in Europe. Aarhus University Hospital is the local hospital for citizens in Aarhus and the island of

Samsø Samsø (Anglicized: "Samso" or "Samsoe") is a Denmark, Danish island in the Kattegat off the Jutland Peninsula. Samsø is located in Samsø municipality. The community has 3,724 inhabitants (2017) (January 2010:4,010) called ''Samsings'' and is ...

, but also offers specialised treatments to the citizens of the

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and other regions in Denmark. It has been ranked the best hospital in Denmark consecutively since 2008.

History

The hospital was created as an administrative unit on 1 April 2011, when the two former university hospitals of Aarhus Sygehus and

Skejby Sygehus Skejby Sygehus or Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, was a university hospital in Aarhus, Denmark from 1988 to 2018. In 2011, Skejby Sygehus became part of Aarhus University Hospital Aarhus University Hospital (AUH) is a university hospita ...

were merged. Aarhus Sygehus was itself a merger from the four individual hospitals of

Aarhus Municipal Hospital Aarhus Municipal Hospital, or Aarhus Sygehus, Nørrebrogade, was a hospital in Aarhus, serving 125 years from 1893 to 2018. The hospital was a department of Aarhus University Hospital and had sections for oncology, orthopedic surgery, medicine an ...

Aarhus County Hospital Aarhus County Hospital, or Aarhus Sygehus, Tage-Hansens Gade, was a hospital in Aarhus for 136 years, from 1882 to 2018. The hospital became a part of Aarhus University Hospital in 2011 in an administrative merger. In 2018, all hospital functio ...

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and Samsø Sygehus in 2007. The 2011 merger was performed in preparation for the New University Hospital (DNU) to be situated in Skejby in the northern parts of Aarhus.

The New University Hospital

''Det Nye Universitetshospital'' (The New University Hospital), or DNU for short, began construction in 2012 i Skejby, adjacent to the former hospital of

, as the new headquarters for Aarhus University Hospital, a building project that was finished in 2018. The New University Hospital is the biggest single hospital in Denmark and one of the biggest in Europe. As one of several new regional "super hospitals" across Denmark, DNU has gradually absorbed all former hospital departments of Aarhus University Hospital across the city, including Skejby Sygehus, a process to completed in 2019. DNU is scheduled to be fully operational in 2020. The New University Hospital employs a combined staff of 10,200 and contains 1,150 patient beds. There are a total of 44 clinical departments.

Psychiatric hospital

The New University Hospital (DNU) includes a

psychiatric hospital Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, behavioral health hospitals, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, dissociative ...

, and a psychiatric trauma center, with a total floor area of 40,000 m2 and 260 patient beds. The hospital has been designed by architectural firm

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with interior decorations by artist

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, and works as an independent department within the larger DNU complex. Next to the hospital is a center for

forensic psychiatry Forensic psychiatry is a subspeciality of psychiatry and is related to criminology. It encompasses the interface between law and psychiatry. According to the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, it is defined as "a subspecialty of psychiat ...

History

The New University Hospital

Psychiatric hospital

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