Vestfold Hospital Trust ( no, Sykehuset i Vestfold ''HF'') is a public

health trust Health trust or HF ( no, helseforetak) is a health enterprise owned by one of the four regional health authorities in Norway, with responsibility for performing a geographic and/or specialist activities of operations on behalf of the regional heal ...

which serves

Vestfold Vestfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in Eastern Norway. In 2020 the county became part of the much larger county of Vestfold og Telemark. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it bordered t ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

. Its main facility is Tønsberg Hospital, which supplements divisions in Larvik and Stavern. As of 2019, the hospital had 5,400 employees. The hospital was founded in 1870. It was merged with Horten Hospital, originally the Navy Hospital, established in 1828, in 1998, and merged with Sandefjord Hospital and Larvik Hospital in 2000, and with the Psychiatry of Vestfold Trust in 2012. It is owned by the Norwegian state through Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority. The hospital was established as Jarlsberg and Larvik County Hospital (''Jarlsberg og Larvik amts sygehus''). It was renamed Vestfold County Hospital (''Vestfold fylkessykehus'') in 1918 and was significantly extended during Nikolai Nissen Paus' tenure as director (1918–1947). It was later renamed Vestfold Central Hospital (''Vestfold sentralsykehus)'' and to the current Vestfold Hospital (''Sykehuset i Vestfold'') in 2002.

External links

Official website
Health trusts of Norway Hospitals established in 1870 Buildings and structures in Vestfold og Telemark Tønsberg Larvik Sandefjord Horten 1870 establishments in Norway {{Europe-hospital-stub