Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia

Herz- und Diabeteszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen (HDZ NRW)
Krankenhausbetriebsgesellschaft Bad Oeynhausen mbH
Main entrance
The hospitals location within Germany
Geography
Location	Georgstraße 11, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Coordinates	52°11′30″N 8°47′38″E / 52.19163°N 8.79402°ECoordinates: 52°11′30″N 8°47′38″E / 52.19163°N 8.79402°E
Organisation
Hospital type	Specialist
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Helipad	Yes
Beds	500 (2010)[1]
Speciality	Heart and Diabetes
History
Founded	1980
Links
Website	www.hdz-nrw.de
Other links	www.hdz-nrw.de/en (English site)

The Herz und Diabeteszentrum (Heart and Diabetes Centre), is a heart clinic in the German town Bad Oeynhausen. It is known for performing the most heart transplants in Europe (over 2,500 since 1989).

Cooperations

Besides having a lot of cooperations with the clinics and institutes of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, it has a lot of national and international cooperations. International cooperations are:^[2]

• Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
• Saitama Medical School Saitama University, Japan
• Nihon University Tokio, Japan
• University of Pécs, Hungary
• University clinic Lyon, France
• Universitätskliniken Salzburg, Austria
• Texas Heart Institute, Houston/Texas, USA
• Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• International Prevention Organization, IPO
• TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital, Tianjin, China

General orientation

The general orientation of the HDZ NRW is to improve the quality of living of cardiac and diabetes patients by a great amount. The patients get the best treatment with a low risk due to their high performance technology.^[3]

References

1. Qualitätsbericht 2010
2. Own statement: Internationale Kooperationen
3. Own statement: Leitbild