Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia

Herz- und Diabeteszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen (HDZ NRW)
Krankenhausbetriebsgesellschaft Bad Oeynhausen mbH
Main entrance
Geography
Location	Georgstraße 11, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Coordinates	52°11′30″N 8°47′38″E
Organisation
Type	Specialist
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	500 (2010)
Speciality	Heart and Diabetes
Helipad	Yes
History
Opened	1980
Links
Website	www.hdz-nrw.de
Lists	Hospitals in Germany
Other links	www.hdz-nrw.de/en (English site)

The Herz und Diabeteszentrum (Heart and Diabetes Centre), is a heart clinic in the German town Bad Oeynhausen. It is known for performing the most heart transplants in Germany (over 2,700 since 1989).

Cooperations

Besides having a lot of cooperations with the clinics and institutes of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, it has a lot of national and international cooperations. International cooperations are:

• Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
• Saitama Medical School Saitama University, Japan
• Nihon University Tokio, Japan
• University of Pécs, Hungary
• University clinic Lyon, France
• Universitätskliniken Salzburg, Austria
• Texas Heart Institute, Houston/Texas, USA
• Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• International Prevention Organization, IPO
• TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital, Tianjin, China

General orientation

The general orientation of the HDZ NRW is to improve the quality of living of cardiac and diabetes patients by a great amount. The patients get the best treatment with a low risk due to their high performance technology.