Vivantes Hospital Am Urban Berlin-Kreuzberg

Vivantes Hospital Am Urban Berlin-Kreuzberg offers comprehensive medical and nursing care to people of all cultures and countries of origin. The medical facility is an academic clinical hospital at Charite - Berlin University of Medicine. The old hospital Am Urban was opened in 1890 as the third city hospital in Berlin and was characterized from the beginning by its medical research and academic teaching hospital. Hospital Am Urban has 12 medical departments, a central emergency department, and 614 beds. Most new nine-story building clinic rooms have been overhauled and are regularly modernized for patients' comfort. Approximately 65,000 patients are treated annually. In the maternity Vivantes Hospital Am Urban, 1500 babies are born yearly. The welfare of patients is taken care of by 242 doctors, 562 nurses, and 189 medical staff. The writer Alfred Döblin worked as a doctor in the clinic. His novel Berlin Alexanderplatz is still one of the outstanding testimonies of Berlin in the 1920s.  Many of the specialized departments of the hospital have received awards for exceptional medical and nursing care. For example, the Department of Urology has been repeatedly recommended by German doctors for the treatment of bladder cancer and prostate cancer surgery. Doctors have one of the most modern MRI systems for ultrasonic fusion biopsy.  Hospital Am Urban is the center for robotic surgery thanks to the new generation of DaVinci robots. The clinic uses innovative nuclear medicine methods, such as TOOKAD, to treat oncological diseases. The hospital's specialists have exceptional experience in cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, rheumatology, endocrinology, hematology, and oncology. In surgical departments, doctors prefer minimally invasive sparing techniques to avoid complications and severe pain. The clinic also includes the Center for Breast Diseases, the Tumor Center, the unit of gastrointestinal oncology, and the Berlin Heart Rhythm Center. The medical team works on an interdisciplinary basis to ensure that patients receive comprehensive, individualized treatment.