Ljubljana Medical Center
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Ljubljana
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
's hospital
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
centre and the largest hospital centre in Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
. It was officially opened on 29 November 1975 and has over 2000 beds and over 7000 employees, making it one of the largest hospital centres in the Central Europe
Central Europe
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. It is the main training base for the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana, which is housed nearby. , the University Medical Centre Ljubljana is led by Simon Vrhunec, a mechanical engineer with a master's degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
of management and supplementary health management education.
Timeline
- 1975: Establishment of UMC Ljubljana
- 1980: Former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz TitoJosip Broz TitoMarshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...
dies at the hospital. - 2011: The first ever robotic-assisted operationRobotic surgeryRobotic surgery, computer-assisted surgery, and robotically-assisted surgery are terms for technological developments that use robotic systems to aid in surgical procedures....
at the femoral vasculature is performed at the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery.