Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet is one of the four main campuses of Oslo University Hospital in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

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. It was an independent hospital, ''Rigshospitalet'', later spelled ''Rikshospitalet'' ("The National Hospital"), from 1826 to 2009, when it merged with other university hospitals in Oslo. It is a highly specialized

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with special assignments in research and the development of new methods of treatment. Rikshospitalet is a part of

Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority ( no, Helse Sør-Øst RHF) is the largest of the four Regional health authorities in Norway. It covers the counties of Viken, Oslo, Innlandet, Vestfold og Telemark, and Agder, with 57% of th ...

, and is affiliated with the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

. About 60% of the patients admitted to Rikshospitalet are referred from other hospitals in Norway for more specialized investigations and treatment. In Norway, Rikshospitalet plays an important part with expert knowledge of the treatment of rare and complicated disorders. Rikshospitalet covers the whole country in various fields, including organ and bone marrow transplants, advanced

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, and treatment of children with congenital malformations. Rikshospitalet is also responsible for health care to the Norwegian Royal Family. Rikshospitalet had 585 beds as of 2005. It is renowned for its architecture. Rikshospitalet merged in 2005 with the

Norwegian Radium Hospital Oslo University Hospital, Radiumhospitalet ( no, Oslo universitetssykehus, Radiumhospitalet) is one of the four campuses of Oslo University Hospital in Oslo, Norway, and is dedicated to cancer treatment. This part of the hospital is the most specia ...

to create

Rikshospitalet–Radiumhospitalet Rikshospitalet–Radiumhospitalet Hospital Trust ( no, Rikshospitalet–Radiumhospitalet HF) was created in 2005 when Rikshospitalet merged with the Norwegian Radium Hospital. The trust belongs to the Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health A ...

. The English form of the name was ''The University Hospital Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet''. Later (in October 2007) the notation was changed to "Rikshospitalet HF" (Rikshospitalet University Hospital HF) and that name now covers what used to be 12 different governmental hospitals (Rikshospitalet, Radiumhospitalet, Geilomo, Strålesatelitt ved Sykehuset Innlandet, Hjertesenteret i Oslo, Epilepsisenteret SSE, Spesialsykehuset for rehabilitering i Stavern, Voksentoppen, Spesialsykehuset for rehabilitering i Kristiansand, Nordagutu opptreningssenter og kvinneklinikken Føderiket), each with their own specialities and now under the same "branding". The hospital is the last stop on the Ullevål Hageby Line of the

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. Rikshospitalet Station is served by lines 17 and 18. Oslo Heliport, Rikshospitalet consists of a diameter

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from the

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History

It was previously located between Ullevålsveien and Pilestredet—roads in Oslo. 1 April 1944, a radio station of The Resistance, located in the

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of Women's Clinic, was raided on 1 April 1944. Njølstad p.181 (

Knut Haugland Knut Magne Haugland, DSO, MM, (23 September 1917 – 25 December 2009) was a resistance fighter and noted explorer from Norway, who accompanied Thor Heyerdahl on his famous 1947 '' Kon-Tiki'' expedition. Early life and World War II Haugland, b ...

shot four, and escaped.Njølstad p.182) It moved to its current location in 1999.

References

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