Skåne University Hospital (Swedish: ''Skånes universitetssjukhus'', SUS) is a

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. The hospital was founded in 2010 through the merger of the two university hospitals in Lund and Malmö.

Operations

Skåne University Hospital is part of Region Skåne and the third largest of Sweden's seven university hospitals, with about 13,000 employees. Skåne University Hospital is closely affiliated with

Malmö University Malmö University () is a public university located in Malmö, Sweden. With more than 24,000 students and about 1,600 employees (academic and administrative), Malmö University is the ninth largest institute of learning in Sweden. It has exchan ...

and

Lund University Lund University () is a Public university, public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. The university was officially foun ...

. Their association with Lund University allows for integrating research into medical services that support patient care in prevention, diagnosis and treatment affecting approximately 1.7 million people throughout the southern part of Sweden. Skåne is one of two national centers for pediatric and adult cardio-thoracic surgery as well as for heart and lung transplants. Since June 2018 the hospital has an additional assignment together with

Karolinska University Hospital The Karolinska University Hospital () is a teaching hospital affiliated with Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, with two major sites in the municipalities of Solna and Huddinge. The hospital network is the second largest in Sweden, after ...

to treat children suffering from congenital malformations.

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* Teaching hospitals in Sweden Buildings and structures in Malmö Buildings and structures in Lund {{Europe-hospital-stub