Meilahti Tower Hospital

The Meilahti Tower Hospital, part of the Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH), is the largest hospital in Finland, located in the Meilahti district of Helsinki. The name of the hospital was changed in 2010 from "Meilahti Hospital" to "Meilahti Tower Hospital" to make it stand out from other hospitals in the area. The address of the hospital is Haartmaninkatu 4. The Meilahti Tower Hospital is part of the HUS collective. It is the largest hospital in the HUS collective and offers treatments in heart and chest surgery, vein surgery, gastric surgery and special areas of neurology. All organ transplantations for adults in Finland have been concentrated in the hospital. The first heart transplantation in Finland was done in the Meilahti Tower Hospital directed by professor Severi Mattila in 1985. The hospital is located in a large city block which also contains the Park Hospital (previously known as the Children's Clinic), the New Children's Hospital, the Women's Clinic, the Corner Hospital, the Haartman Hospital, the Triangle Hospital, the Bridge Hospital, the Cancer Clinic and buildings of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Helsinki such as Biomedicum Helsinki and the Health Science Central Library Terkko. The northwestern corner of the block also contains the former building of the Nursery Academy. The neighbouring block across the street Haartmaninkatu contains t

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