Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics ( lt, Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universiteto ligoninė Kauno klinikos) is the largest and the most advanced medical institution in

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Duris atvėrė 25 mln. eurų kainavęs skubios pagalbos centras
Retrieved on 2015-06-29Kaunas University Hospital
. Retrieved on 2008-05-23 The entire hospital complex is 160 thousand square meters over an area of 36 hectares. Within the 15 on-campus buildings, there are 35 departments with different clinical profiles and 15 departments for out patient care. As of 2009, more than 1,200 medical doctors and 2,500 nursing specialists are working at the hospital. Since 2016 the hospital has been governed by

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doctor Renaldas Jurkevičius. Kaunas Clinics performs more than 60,000 operations per annum. Since June 29, 2015 it is the only hospital in

to have highest level (Level 3) Trauma and Emergency Center for both – adult and children. The Kaunas Clinics is capable of performing the most advanced surgeries, including heart transplants. Compared to other hospitals in Europe, Kaunas clinics is distinguished in the fields of vascular surgery, neurosurgery and otorhinolaryngology.

Name changes

* until 1948 – Vytautas Magnus University Clinics * 1948–1952 – Kaunas Area Clinical Hospital * 1952–1983 – Kaunas Republican Clinical Hospital * 1983–1986 – Clinic of the Ministry of Health BMI * 1986–1990 – Petras Jasinskas Clinic * 1990–1995 – Kaunas Republican Clinical Hospital * 1995–2010 –

Kaunas University of Medicine Lithuanian University of Health Sciences ( lt, Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas, LSMU) is a medical school in Kaunas, Lithuania. The present-day Lithuanian University of Health Sciences is a consolidation of two institutions of higher educ ...

Clinics * since 2010 – Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kauno klinikos

History

During the

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, Lithuanian politicians and medical experts perceived a need for a major hospital complex in the area, and gathered to discuss the possibility on February 5, 1936.Džiuljeta Kulvietienė
Draugystės konferencija
. Retrieved on 2008-05-23 Soon afterwards the Lithuanian cabinet adopted a resolution to build a hospital near the

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. An international competition was held to select the best project. Six different proposals were submitted, two of them from outside Lithuania. The commission chose proposal ''"XXX"'', by the French architects Urbain Cassan and Elie Ouchanoff. The development of the hospital quickly gained momentum. Urbain Cassan met with physicians to gather feedback and hear specific requests and proposals for the arrangement of rooms. These discussions went on for about ten days. The building commission acted in coordination to review the designs and sketches, which resulted in redesigns of, and improvements to, several aspects of the initial proposal. In 1937 the cornerstone was laid, marking the active phase of construction. The work continued until July 1939; it employed several of the newest building technologies. The hospital complex comprised six buildings, covering about 160,000 square meters, including a 75-meter-tall

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. Its major buildings were linked through tunnels, with a total length of one kilometer.

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was used as flooring in the corridors so as to minimize disturbances to patients. The hospital opened in 1940. When Lithuania was occupied during World War II, the hospital was adjusted to meet its new needs. The buildings were redecorated with camouflage colors. After the war the hospital underwent further expansion. In 1967 a medical research and laboratory complex was built, followed in 1972 by an obstetrical and

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center, and a few years an eye-care clinic was added.LR Kultūros ministerija
Kauno klinikų pastatų kompelsas paskaelbtas kultūros paminklu
Retrieved on 2008-05-23 Between 1976 and 1982 a cardiac clinic and a neurosurgery center were constructed, and gardens were planted. The University Hospital complex consisted in 2008 of 15 buildings where approximately two thousand patients could be treated simultaneously. On May 7, 2008 Kaunas University Hospital was declared a cultural monument. On June 1, 2012 the new building for the Clinic of Children's Disease was opened. On June 29, 2015 the new highest level (Level 3) Trauma and Emergency Center for adults and children was opened.

Clinics

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* Cardiology * Children's diseases * Children's surgery * Dental and oral diseases * Dental and Maxillary Orthopedics * Ear, nose, and throat * Endocrinology * Eye care *

Family medicine Family medicine is a medical specialty within primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body. The specialist, who is usually a primary ...

* Gastroenterology *

General surgery General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on alimentary canal and abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid ...

* Heart, thoracic and

vascular surgery Vascular surgery is a surgical subspecialty in which diseases of the vascular system, or arteries, veins and lymphatic circulation, are managed by medical therapy, minimally-invasive catheter procedures and surgical reconstruction. The specialty ...

Hematology Hematology ( always spelled haematology in British English) is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood. It involves treating diseases that affect the produc ...

* Infectious diseases * Intensive care * Internal diseases * Laboratory * Maxillofacial surgery *

Nephrology Nephrology (from Greek'' nephros'' "kidney", combined with the suffix ''-logy'', "the study of") is a specialty of adult internal medicine and pediatric medicine that concerns the study of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (ren ...

Neonatology Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that consists of the medical care of newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn. It is a hospital-based specialty, and is usually practised in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The ...

* Neurosurgery * Neurology *

Obstetrics Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynecology under the discipline known as obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), which is a surgi ...

and

Gynecology Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, forming the combined are ...

* Oncology * Oral Care and Pediatric Odontology *

Orthodontics Orthodontics is a dentistry specialty that addresses the diagnosis, prevention, management, and correction of mal-positioned teeth and jaws, and misaligned bite patterns. It may also address the modification of facial growth, known as dentofacial ...

* Orthopedics and Traumatology * Pathological anatomy * Pediatric surgery * Plastic and Reconstructive surgery * Psychiatry *

Pulmonology Pulmonology (, , from Latin ''pulmō, -ōnis'' "lung" and the Greek suffix "study of"), pneumology (, built on Greek πνεύμων "lung") or pneumonology () is a medical specialty that deals with diseases involving the respiratory tract. ...

and Immunology * Radiology *

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* Rheumatology * Skin and Venereal diseases * Surgery * Urology

References

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