Charité Hospital Germany, Berlin
- 13 awards and certificates
- The clinic conducts scientific research and clinical studies
In March 2019, Charité Berlin was included in the Newsweek's list of the best 1,000 clinics worldwide and ranked the 5th worldwide and the 1st in Europe. Charité is one of the largest medical networks nationwide that integrates a full-service clinic, a research center, a teaching hospital, and medical schools of the Berlin Free University and Humboldt University.
More about the clinic
Over the years, Charité (French for "Charity") has become a household name for advanced medical research and practice of medicine.
Every year it treats more patients than any other university clinic in Germany; this includes over 140,000 inpatient cases alone. Charité offers a unique combination of experience of 4,000 physicians, 300 years of practice and research, and the highest level of medical ethics in line with its status of the best clinic in Germany. More than 50% of all German Nobel prize winners in medicine and physiology come from Charité. Among them are Robert Koch, who discovered the tubercle bacillus, Paul Ehrlich, founder of chemotherapy, and the famous bacteriologist Emil von Behring.
It has become one of the first German clinics with an interdisciplinary cancer center, known as the Charité Comprehensive Cancer Center, or CCCC. The center has been certified by the German Cancer Society and the German Cancer Aid Society for all common and exotic cancer types; on the whole the clinic's cancer departments hold 12 certificates. CCCC has become an independent medical system. It's operations are designed to identify and test new promising medical technologies very quickly. This gives patients early access to experimental treatments that work. Its medical practitioners are involved in scientific research and stay in touch with the international research community, and this helps them quickly implement the newest treatment methods.
The clinic is also home to the Molecular Cancer Research Center and the Regenerative Medicine Center that work in close cooperation with the CCCC. These research centers support medical practitioners with expert knowledge and the newest cutting-edge technologies.
Other specialized centers are famous for their global expertise and resources in the fields of cardiology, immunology, and genetics.
History
The clinic was founded in 1710 by the Prussian king Friedrich I as a plague hospital. Soon it was renamed the "Charite Royal Hospital" and for nearly 100 years operated as a shelter and hospice for the poor, a municipal hospital and a military medical school. In 1810, when the Berlin University was founded, the clinic started teaching civilian physicians and has, in fact, become part of the university. The clinic has become famous throughout Germany for its researchers, educators, and scientific breakthroughs. At the end of the 19th century, the clinic moved to its trademark red-brick building that suffered extensive damage during the war, but has been quickly restored. Charite keeps growing. 20 years ago, it merged with the Free University Clinic.
Charite's 4 campuses: the original one in downtown, the North Berlin campus in the medical cluster located in a green Buch neighborhood, the Benjamen Francklin campus on southern side of the town, near the Botanical Garden, and the new Rudolf Virchow campus in Wedding.
The most effective surgeries and procedures
• High dose radiation therapy: a precise tumor targeting with ionizing radiation. 16,234 procedures per year.
• Immunotherapy: a type of treatment that enables the immune system to fight against tumor.
• Coronary artery bypass surgery: a surgery that diverts blood around narrowed parts of the coronary arteries to improve blood flow to the heart.
• Chemotherapy: a method of therapy that employs cytostatic drugs that enter the cells of a malign tumor to destroy their structure.
• Microsurgery uses the operating room microscope, microsurgical tools and fine sutures. This technique aids to minimize healthy tissues damage and to perform surgeries on the structures invisible to the naked eye. Charité performs 7,749 microsurgeries per year.
• Physical therapy: a comprehensive therapy, embracing healing and natural factors for body recovery.
Achievements
• Charité ranks 5th among the best hospitals throughout the world by American weekly paper Newsweek and Statista portal. It is the best result among European medical centers.
• In 2021, Charité is ranked the best German clinic by Focus magazine for the 9th time in a row.
Services
It is important for the clinic team that patients feel comfortable and free in the hospital, regardless of their origin, native language and religion. Patients are accompanied on all issues: with translation, transfer, limitation of free time.
Certificates
Certified stomach cancer center
Certified lung cancer center
Certified liver cancer center
Certified head and neck tumor center
Certified pancreatic cancer center
Certified neuro-oncology center
Certified prostate cancer center
Certified skin cancer center
Certified esophageal cancer center
Breast cancer center
Certified intestinal cancer center
Certified oncology center
Certified gynecologic oncology center
Location
Charité has four campuses: the historic campus in the center of Berlin, the north campus in the famous "medical" and green Buch district, the Benjamin Franklin campus in the south, near the Botanical Garden, and the modern campus in the Wedding district, which bears the name of the doctor Rudolf Virchow.
