Foreign Patient Service

Extra-Leistungen für ausländische Patienten

Das Universitätsklinikum Essen bietet einen besonderen Service für ausländische Patienten an, den "Foreign-Patient-Service". Die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter dieser Einrichtung planen gemeinsam mit den beteiligten Kliniken den gesamten Krankenhausaufenthalt und stehen den ausländischen Patienten auch währenddessen mit Rat und Tat zur Seite.

Dear Patient,

As a maximum care hospital, the Universitätsklinikum Essen (Essen University Hospital) is the hospital for the Ruhr Metropolitan Region. Every year our hospital treats more than 50,000 in-patients in approximately 1300 beds, another 200,000 patients are treated as out-patients. Experts in different disciplines enable excellent interdisciplinary diagnostics and treatment based on state-of-the-art research.

Inquiries from abroad

To our foreign patients we offer a special service to make their stay as pleasant and as healthy as possible. Coming from abroad to be treated at the Essen University Hospital your inquiry will be dealt with by the Foreign Patient Service (FPS).
Our work includes:

• contacting the specialist departments
• preparing cost estimates
• scheduling treatment or diagnostics
• invoicing and/or administering money paid in

The West German Cancer Centre - Interdisciplinarity is Our Strength

The Westdeutsches Tumorzentrum (West German Cancer Center) is one of only eight members of the German Cancer Consortium and one of 13 hospital in Germany certificated as a Comprehensive Cancer Centre following the US-model of the same name.

Linking latest research findings with state-of-the-art technologies the more than 30 clinical and research centres of different medical areas we are able to provide personalized therapy concepts to each of our patients.

The information film is also available in German: please click here

Contact to Our Foreign Patient Service