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St. Olavs Hospital is a health enterprise and university hospital in the Mid-Norway health region, an area which consists of the counties of Møre and Romsdal, Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag and has a total of 630,000 inhabitants.

The new Hospital in Trondheim
In the new University Hospital patient treatment, research and teaching will be integrated functions. The new University Hospital is being built at Øya in the central part of Trondheim. The first clinical centres were completed in 2006. The entire project will be completed in 2015.

The hospital project consists of new buildings and a new organization. The centre model is introduced in the hospital from 2000. The hospital management consists of managing director an seventeen heads of department. The Faculty of Medicine has reorganized its departements corresponding to the centres.

The University Hospital in Trondheim is the first university in Norway which completely integrates patient treatment, research and teaching.The hospital will have a total area of 197 500. From this will 49,500 m2 be used to university and teaching functions. Approximately 80 per cent of the existing buildings will be replaced by new ones.