The Medical Center Leeuwarden or MCL is the hospital of the city of Leeuwarden, and the largest non-university hospital in The Netherlands. It is one of the country's major top-clinical centers, offering secondary and tertiary care.

It has 990 beds, and offers all common specialties including cardiovascular surgery and neurosurgery

Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spine, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.-In the United States:In...

. It is also a teaching hospital for numerous medical specialties, as well as nurses.

A secondary hospital affiliated with the MCL, called MCL-Harlingen, is located in the town of Harlingen

Harlingen

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. This hospital merged with the MCL because it was too small to prevent closure, unless it merged with another, larger hospital.