LMU University Hospital Munich

LMU Hospital operates the Großhadern and Innenstadt campuses in Munich. Its specialist clinics, institutes and interdisciplinary centers connect outpatient and inpatient care with the Ludwig Maximilian University medical faculty, including organized clinical research and postgraduate training.

The official institutional overview identifies the Großhadern and Innenstadt campuses as the two Munich locations of LMU Hospital. It reports twenty-eight specialist clinics, sixteen institutes, five departments and sixty-three interdisciplinary centers in its 2025 overview. These centers connect disciplines across departmental boundaries; they are not additional hospitals whose beds should be added independently to the campus total.

The same overview describes approximately half a million patients treated annually and differentiates ambulatory services from partial and full inpatient treatment. Its reported medical and nursing staffing concerns direct patient care. The 2024 annual report uses its own reporting year and institutional categories, so figures from that report remain attached to their original period rather than being silently substituted for the later overview.

Department of Medicine II provides a detailed example of the hospital's clinical organization. At Großhadern, its published inpatient information identifies wards for internal medicine with a focus on gastroenterology, liver and pancreatic disease, metabolic conditions and infectious disease. Intensive and intermediate-care places are specified within the department's own bed allocation. These are department-level resources, not the capacity of the whole LMU institution.

At Innenstadt, the same department describes inpatient accommodation together with endoscopy and ultrasound services. Its stated focus includes interventional ultrasound and gastrointestinal functional diagnosis. The department identifies admission through a family doctor or specialist, illustrating how a particular clinical service publishes a more specific access route than the hospital-wide institutional overview.

Clinical research is described through the department's research and teaching information. It addresses diagnostic and treatment approaches and the course of disease, with research physicians and study coordination teams working under Good Clinical Practice and the relevant German and European framework. The connection with the Ludwig Maximilian University medical faculty also places patient care within medical education and postgraduate training. These are documented academic functions, separate from the decision about an individual patient's treatment or participation in a specific clinical study.

The institution reports the following clinical and infrastructure information: outpatient care: Yes; inpatient beds: ≈2,000 (Both Munich campuses; institution overview, 2025.); doctors: ≈2,000 (Doctors involved directly in patient care, 2025.); intensive care / resuscitation: Yes. The scope and reporting period remain those of the linked institutional sources.

LMU Hospital’s Department of Medicine II describes clinical research into diagnostic and treatment approaches and the course of disease. Its research physicians and study coordination teams work within Good Clinical Practice and the applicable German and European clinical research framework.