University Hospital of Zurich

The University Hospital of Zürich (Universitätsspital Zürich, USZ) is one of five university hospitals in Switzerland. The first hospital in Zürich, from which the current hospital derives, is recorded as having existed as early as 1204. As of December 2025, the hospital employs an approximate staff of 10,800 (1, 200 doctors, 4, 000 care professionals, 1, 250 medical-technical and medical-therapeutic specialists) providing medical care to 882,000 ambulant visitors and over 42,000 stationary patients each year. Scientists and physicians of international renown who have practiced at the hospital include Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Andreas Grüntzig and Rolf M. Zinkernagel; the latter received a Nobel Prize for research done at the hospital.

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