Haukeland University Hospital ( no, Haukeland universitetssjukehus) 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 emergen ...

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, and one of the eleven institutions that make up

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. Haukeland is the largest in Norway in terms of number of patients, and serves as the local hospital of Bergen,

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and

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, the central hospital of

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county, and the regional hospital for

and

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counties. The general area of the hospital is about and the Central Block is about . They have a co-operation with the

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, including the Gades Institute of Pathology. The Hospital is the greatest employer in Hordaland, in terms of number of employees. Haukeland is a national special hospital and resource center for Burn injuries, air-pressure injuries (diving), Cornea-protesises and treatment of intercranial tumors. It is the site of RELIS.

Application for distribution of heroin

The hospital's 2013 application for distributing heroin for free, was the first ever by a Norwegian hospital.Vil dele ut gratis heroin
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supervised injection site Supervised injection sites (SIS) are medically supervised facilities designed to provide a hygienic environment in which people are able to consume illicit recreational drugs intravenously and prevent deaths due to drug overdoses. The legality ...

at the new

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at Solheimsviken. Such injection sites have not been permitted by the city council, although the hospital trust may independent of this implement injection rooms.

Heliport

Bergen received a helicopter air ambulance service in 1987, operated by

Norsk Luftambulanse Stiftelsen Norsk Luftambulanse ("Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation", NLA) is a Norwegian humanitarian organisation, organised as a non-profit foundation. It primarily promotes and operates helicopter air ambulance services. , they operate seven ...

. This service was initially based at the "Circus lot" at Nygårdstangen. When the central block was built during the 1980s, there were originally plans to place a helipad on the roof. However, there was uncertainty if there was sufficient support in the structure and the plans were therefore aborted. Haukeland was the only major hospital without a suitable heliport on-site. They had a temporary structure, although it did not allow good landing conditions and was considered hazardous for flight safety. Only in cases where saving a few minutes was imperative did helicopters call directly at the hospital. The facility lack authorization from the

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, and could only be used on a case-for-case basis when the physician declared necessity. The heliport lot at Nygårdstangen was sold in 2002, and replaced with Bergen Heliport, Grønneviksøren. At the same time Haukeland took over the medical air ambulance staff. The Civil Aviation Authority approved the design and construction of an on-site helipad in 2004, but not until 2008 did Bergen Hospital Trust approve the plans. The official opening of the new pad took place on 12 April 2012.

Laboratory clinic

The new laboratory building opened in 2010. The building lies in the East side of the central building, with a pedestrian bridge connecting the two. In this building, every laboratory field except pathology is located, and the building features a

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as well as RELIS, Norway's drug information centre. With its 23 000 square metres, the laboratory building is the largest building raised at Haukeland University Hospital since the central building.

References

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