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FIRST EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
[LIFE-SCI: VAALS, July 8]
A 500-page study by KPMG specialists has today confirmed the legal and financial viability of the first
European University Hospital in the form of a joint venture between the University Hospitals in Aachen
(UKA) and Maastricht (Maastricht UMC+). The business plan in 2009 and 3 to 4 years construction come next.
This proposed EUR 400m*, European center of excellence with a specific focus on specialisms, in which the
which the two centers have a world reputation, would be located at Avantis, the cross-border Science Park
between Germany and the Netherlands approx. 5 km from Aachen and about 25 km from Maastricht.
The location would have a cardiovascular center and particle therapy center for innovative radiotherapy
treatment for cancer patients. In 2007, the joint figures for the two university hospitals included in
excess of 2,000 beds, 70,000 inpatients, 600,000 outpatients, a staff of 8,000 and health care revenues
of EUR 536 million.
A unified cardiovascular center of excellence will enhance the institution’s national and international
market profile, creating a focus for international patients and researchers and a single pediatric heart
department could become an integral part of the center. An oncology network and the existing department
of pediatric cardiac surgery would be further assets.
There will be a decisive strategic approach to R&D and overall corporate responsibility will include
joint management at board level, together with shared infrastructure and medical equipment for health
care provision, with one IT, financial control and invoicing platform.
The Maastricht-Aachen initiative accords perfectly with the
new directive proposal
of EU commissioner, Androulla Vassiliou.
The objective of this directive is to facilitate European cooperation in healthcare. It will provide a
basis to support the development of European reference networks. The proposal is also custom-made for
Limburg’s Acceleration Agenda and Philips Medical systems has already signed a letter of intent.
The project builds on a Euroregional proximity that has already led to cardiovascular cooperation in an
area where the parent institutions are no further away from one another than the Charité Hospital’s
locations in the single city of Berlin.
*All figures are approximations
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