University Hospital Essen

University Hospital Essen provides university-level specialist treatment and hosts the West German Cancer Center. Its own statutory quality report identifies the hospital's bed capacity and activity, which must be distinguished from figures for the wider university-medical group or joint regional cancer networks.

The University Hospital's statutory 2024 quality report provides a hospital-specific description of inpatient accommodation, clinical activity and professional staffing. It reports 51,807 fully inpatient cases, 1,507 day cases and 310,756 outpatient cases for its own scope. The categories distinguish hospital admissions from other encounters and should not be combined as though each represented a different individual patient.

The report lists its inpatient beds separately from medical staffing expressed in full-time equivalents. A full-time-equivalent total measures working capacity and is not the number of individual physicians. The institution's profile therefore retains the bed figure for University Hospital Essen itself while avoiding a doctor headcount inferred from a staffing-equivalent table.

Oncology is organized around the West German Cancer Center, which is identified in the hospital's institutional directory. Its annual reporting describes medical oncology, surgical oncology, hematology, radiation oncology and pediatric oncology as different parts of cancer care. Specialized nursing is also identified, including oncology-trained nurses, advanced-practice nursing, palliative care, wound and stoma expertise, and breast-care nursing.

The cancer-center report covers a broader regional and university-medical network that includes University Medicine Essen and University Hospital Münster. Its combined numbers for clinics, institutes, employees and beds therefore describe that wider network. They are not substituted for the capacity of a single Essen hospital. This distinction is especially important when reading a prominent combined-network total alongside the hospital-specific statutory report.

Teaching and professional preparation are documented in the hospital's own quality material. The published training categories include laboratory technology, anesthesia-related technical assistance, dietetics, nursing assistance and professional nursing, including a pediatric focus. Medical intensive treatment is identified as a separate clinical service in the hospital directory. The resulting institutional picture connects specialist hospital treatment, cancer-center coordination, critical-care support and several healthcare professions, while preserving the reporting boundaries of each official source.

The institution reports the following clinical and infrastructure information: outpatient care: Yes; inpatient beds: 1,127 (University Hospital Essen itself, statutory report 2024.); intensive care / resuscitation: Yes. The scope and reporting period remain those of the linked institutional sources.

University Hospital Essen includes the West German Cancer Center, an institutional center for oncology care. Its official hospital directory identifies the center and provides a route to specialist information and patient services.