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Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Europe’s largest university teaching hospital, the Charité is a maximum-care facility offering the entire spectrum of modern medicine and able to provide appropriate treatment for almost any diagnosed condition. 

The Charité has four different campuses in Berlin and is made up of some 100 departments and institutes, with medical expertise relating to the world’s most common diseases concentrated at 17 Charité Centres. Thanks to the Charité’s close ties with university research, patients benefit from the expert knowledge of around 3,700 scientists and 220 professors.   

4,135 nurses work at the Charité, their tireless commitment to patient satisfaction contributing to the hospital’s outstanding reputation. Each year, around 800,000 inpatients and outpatients receive professional and dedicated care and treatment here. To further improve the high quality of its nursing care, the Charité offers its nursing staff a wide range of further and continuing training.

The research conducted at the Charité enjoys an excellent reputation, both in Germany and abroad. New diagnostic, preventive and therapeutic approaches are developed in over 1,000 research projects and working groups and applied within patient care as quickly as possible.

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Charité Campus Buch

Charité – Campus Berlin Buch

Campus Benjamin Franklin Aerial View

Charité – Campus Benjamin Franklin

Campus Virchow-Klinikum Aerial View

Charité – Campus Virchow-Klinikum

Campus Charité Mitte

Charité – Campus Mitte

View of the Käthe-Beutler house at Charité Campus Berlin Buch
Charité, photo: Wiebke Peitz

Charité – Campus Berlin Buch

At Campus Berlin Buch, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin cooperates closely with the renowned Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) and runs a university centre for translational clinical research. At the huge Berlin-Buch science and technology hub, the Charité profits from the close proximity to other companies such as the globally renowned Leibniz-Institut für Pharmakologie (FMP). Buch is also home to one of Germany’s largest biotechnology parks, with numerous innovative companies based there.

Campus Benjamin Franklin Entrance West
Charité, photo: Wiebke Peitz

Charité – Campus Benjamin Franklin

When Berlin was divided after the war, the west part of the city no longer had a university, which is why the Freie Universität Berlin was founded in 1948. Klinikum Steglitz was established in the south of Berlin, a complex comprising numerous institutes, departments and lecture theatres. Now renamed Universitätsklinikum Benjamin Franklin, the hospital merged with the Charité in 2003, creating today’s university teaching hospital: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. 

Nowadays, Campus Benjamin Franklin specializes particularly in degenerative diseases and later-life medicine. Experts here treat dementia and degenerative brain diseases, among other things.

Campus Virchow-Klinikum Entrance Augustenburger Platz
Charité, photo: Wiebke Peitz

Charité – Campus Virchow-Klinikum

The Campus Virchow-Klinikum is located in the Berlin district of Wedding. The site traces its origins to the former Rudolf Virchow Hospital, which was built between 1898 and 1906 at the initiative of Rudolf Virchow as a pavilion-style hospital. Despite later structural changes, the protected historic ensemble, the park-like setting and the combination of historic and modern hospital buildings continue to shape the character of the campus today.

Following its integration with Charité in 1997/1998, the campus has been part of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Today, the site combines university medicine, research and teaching with specialised medical facilities.

Key medical areas include gynaecology, paediatrics and adolescent medicine, cancer medicine and cardiovascular medicine. The campus is home to the Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine of the Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité. Its location in Berlin-Wedding provides good access to public transport and central areas of the city.

Charité Logo
Charité, photo: Wiebke Peitz

Charité – Campus Mitte

The Campus Mitte is the historic birthplace of the Charité and one of the key sites of modern university medicine in Germany. Built more than 300 years ago on the outskirts of what was then Berlin, the campus has developed over time into an internationally recognised centre for patient care, medical research and teaching.

Today, the Charité Campus Mitte is situated in the heart of Berlin, close to the main railway station, the government district and Humboldt University. Its historic buildings and modernised high-rise ward block, with a total of 780 beds, shape the character of the site and make it a widely visible landmark.

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