A. Jurasz University Hospital No. 1 Bydgoszcz

A. Jurasz University Hospital No. 1 in Bydgoszcz (Szpital Uniwersytecki nr 1 im. dr. Antoniego Jurasza) is one of the largest, highest-acuity public teaching hospitals in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian region of Poland. It positions itself simultaneously as a tertiary referral center delivering high-specialty procedures and as a core academic base for medical education and research linked to the Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum of Nicolaus Copernicus University. Clinically, the hospital’s service profile is explicitly multi-specialty and referral-oriented, with departments spanning intensive care and anesthesiology, major surgical disciplines (including vascular and liver/general surgery), ophthalmology, and pediatric surgical care, among others. The hospital’s own description emphasizes “high specialty medical procedures” alongside diagnostic and rehabilitation services, reflecting a model designed to manage both complex elective pathways and time-critical care. Emergency and trauma capability is presented as a major differentiator. The hospital states that its emergency medicine clinic (Klinika Medycyny Ratunkowej) receives about 45,000 patients per year, of whom roughly 10,000 (22%) are transferred for further inpatient hospitalization. It also notes that the region’s only Trauma Center operates within the hospital, explicitly focused on reducing mortality and the burden of complications after serious accidents and other acute, life-threatening conditions. The hospital also highlights advanced, technology-intensive programs that typically correlate with tertiary or quaternary care status. It describes a robotic surgery program in which the first robotic procedure was performed on 8 March 2023, noting that the cumulative case count exceeded 500 by July and had reached roughly 600 procedures at the time of the posting. For patients requiring organ-failure support and highly specialized critical care, the hospital describes its University Center for Extracorporeal Therapies as meeting regional needs for multi-organ failure. It states that it is the only site in the region able to provide extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in venovenous or veno-arterial configurations, and that it currently has 4 ECMO devices available, alongside other advanced extracorporeal and blood purification techniques. In hepatobiliary and transplant medicine, the hospital reports that liver transplantation from deceased donors is available within its surgical and transplant structure, with qualification and interdisciplinary evaluation handled internally and supported by a dedicated outpatient course. In parallel, the hospital continues to develop modern, highly specialized programs and technology-supported treatment options, such as advanced surgical care, transplant-related services, and robotic procedures, while emphasizing patient safety, clinical quality, and continuous improvement in clinical operations.