Albertinen Krankenhaus

Founded in 1964, Albertinen Krankenhaus is a charity based in Hamburg, Germany working on health, elderly care, mental health.

The Albertinen Krankenhaus is a non-profit, faith-based general hospital in Hamburg-Schnelsen, run by the Immanuel Albertinen Diakonie group. It describes itself as the largest non-profit (freigemeinnütziges) hospital in Hamburg and an academic teaching hospital of the Medical Faculty of the University of Hamburg. Its clinics cover internal medicine, nephrology, gastroenterology, surgery, oncology, cardiology and heart surgery, anaesthesiology and intensive care, gynaecology and obstetrics, neurology with a stroke unit, urology, orthopaedics and trauma surgery, and psychiatry and psychotherapy. It also runs a Zentrum für Altersmedizin for geriatric care, a birth centre, and an emergency department. The hospital reports around 68,000 inpatients and outpatients per year and about 770 inpatient beds. Volunteers support patients through the Lotsendienst escort service and the Grüne Damen & Herren. The institution is recognised as a charity that may issue donation receipts. Its website states that the hospital is connected to a broader diaconal network with roots in 1964.