Sørlandet Hospital Kristiansand (

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:Sørlandet Sykehus Kristiansand) is located in

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporation ...

, Vest-Agder County in

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, and is one of the three public hospitals within the Hospital of Southern Norway and is a regional hospital. It was previously called Kristiansand Sentralsykehus and was located in Tordenskjoldsgate in Kvadraturen (the city center). Most of the hospital moved to Eg, north of downtown in the 1980s, where there already was a psychiatric hospital (Eg Hospital). The departments of general medicine and psychiatry were merged into one unit after the move. The hospital has modern facilities and is centralized geographically with full clinical, surgical, medical and psychiatric procedures and treatment-related deals. The hospital offers both emergency medical care and outpatient treatment. There are

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clinic, psychiatric treatment and inpatient care,

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- and

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and an ambulance station and

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at Eg. Mental Health Clinic - psychiatry and addiction treatment has limited psychiatric treatment for adults in Kristiansand and

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. At Sørlandet Hospital Kristiansand are also numerous administrative and operational support services for the hospital trust.Contact informationKontakt oss

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