Saint Göran Hospital is a hospital in Stockholm

Stockholm

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, Sweden

Sweden

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. It is located at Kungsholmen

Kungsholmen

Kungsholmen is an island in Lake Mälaren in Sweden, part of Stockholm City. It is situated north of Riddarfjärden and considered part of the historical province Uppland....

 (a small island in the lake Mälaren

Mälaren

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) in central Stockholm.

S:t Göran Hospital is one of Sweden's oldest hospitals. Already mentioned in letters from the 13th century it has a proud history of social and medical development. Alongside Karolinska Hospital

Karolinska University Hospital

The Karolinska University Hospital is a university hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, with two major sites in the municipalities of Huddinge and Solna....

(Karolinska sjukhuset) it is Stockholms's main hospital and the prime emergency hospital.

Approximately 1,500 people work at S:t Göran, including 220 doctors, 560 nurses and 350 assistant nurses. The hospital was corporatized in 1994 and became the first privately-owned emergency hospital in Sweden in 1999.

Since 2004 it is also known as Capio S:t Görans Sjukhus.