Akureyri Hospital is a university-affiliated community hospital serving Northern and Eastern Iceland. Akureyri is a the largest community in North Iceland, with 18,500 inhabitants. The hospital's catchment area has 40,000 inhabitants.
Akureyri is located in at the base of Iceland‘s largest fjord, surrounded by stunning mountains. The area offers lots of opportunities for outdoor activities such as hiking, biking, fishing, horseback riding, whale watching, white river rafting, kayaking and gliding. It is home to the Arctic Open, a golf tournament played during the bright nights of summer. Winter activities include cross-country skiing, downhill skiing (about 10 minutes away), world-renowned heli-skiing (about an hour away), and enjoying the Northern Lights. And for all seasons, Iceland is a photographer‘s paradise!
Akureyri has a small university and a surprisingly vibrant cultural life. Educational and extracurricular opportunities for children are particularly impressive (music school, gymnastics hall, indoor skating rink, indoor football field). It is a popular tourist destination and a fishing industry hub.
Akureyri Hospital provides specialty care in the following fields: OB-GYN, pediatrics, internal medicine, geriatrics, rehabilitation medicine, psychiatry, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, anesthesia and critical care, radiology, and pathology. We are a teaching hospital with 15 doctors in training as well as rotating medical students. We have full laboratory services, 3 operating rooms with 2800 surgeries per year, outpatient clinics with 13,400 annual visits, and an emergency department with around 17,000 annual visits. We provide physician staffing for fixed wing med-evac operations for all of Iceland. A satellite dialysis unit has lately been added.
Uppfært: fös 27.apr 2018
