The Haartman Hospital ( Finnish: ''Haartmanin sairaala'') is a

hospital A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ...

at the

Meilahti Tower Hospital The Meilahti Tower Hospital, part of the Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH), is the largest hospital in Finland, located in the Meilahti district of Helsinki. The hospital has a helipad with the ICAO airport code The ICAO airport ...

area in

Meilahti Meilahti (in Swedish Mejlans) is a neighbourhood of Helsinki between Mannerheimintie (the main entrance road to Helsinki) and a bay named Seurasaarenselkä. Most of the houses in Meilahti were built in the 1930s and 1940s. Meilahti is home to ove ...

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. The hospital started operating in autumn 2009. The hospital was named after the physician Johan Haartman, who founded the first hospital in Finland in

Turku Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...

in 1799 and is considered the father of Finnish medicine. The building was designed by the Finnish architecture bureau Virta-Palaste-Leinonen Arkkitehdit. The facades are made of

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glass with a blue pattern designed by the artist Markku Keränen (born 1945) in the background. The light chasms on the third floor bear sculptures by the Finnish artist Kirsi Kaulanen (born 1969). The light chasms bring light into the central patient spaces and also work as vehicles for smoke removal. The second floor, serving as the entrance floor, holds a patient registering space completely made of glass and completely insulated for sound, the first one in Finland and one of the few in the entire world at the time of construction. The hospital hosts the following activities: * outpatient department for women's diseases * appointment outpatient department for

cardiology Cardiology () is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart d ...

* emergency duty department * three departments for internal organ diseases * X-ray The Meilahti common emergency duty department moved to the Siltasairaala ("Bridge Hospital") hospital on 8 January 2024, with an entrance on Paciuksenkatu 3. The department handles sudden diseases and injuries for people over 16 years of age as well as mental health problems requiring urgent care.Meilahden yhteispäivystys , HUS
''www.hus.fi''. Accessed on 16 February 2024.

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