VU University Medical Center

VU University Medical Center
VUmc as seen from the east
Geography
Location	Zuidas, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Coordinates	52°20′04″N 4°51′36″E
Organisation
Funding	Government hospital
Hospital type	Academic
Affiliated university	Vrije Universiteit
Patron	None
Services
Emergency department	I
Beds	733
History
Founded	1964 (as the Academic Hospital of the Vrije Universiteit)
Links
Website	http://www.vumc.com/ English
Lists	Hospitals in The Netherlands

The VU University Medical Center (Dutch: VU Medisch Centrum) or VUmc, is the university hospital affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit (literally: Free University) of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It was created in 2001 by the merger of the Academic Hospital of the Vrije Universiteit with the medical school of the Vrije Universiteit.

It is one of the largest and leading hospitals of The Netherlands, located next to Amsterdam's A10 ringway in the southwestern part of the city, next to the campus of the Vrije Universiteit and close to Schiphol airport.

The VUmc has an intensive cooperation with the other university hospital of Amsterdam, the Academisch Medisch Centrum (Academic Medical Center), which is affiliated with the Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam), Amsterdam's other university.

Tertiary care departments include advanced trauma care, pediatric and neonatal intensive care, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, infectious diseases and other departments. A medical emergency rescue helicopter is also affiliated with the hospital.

Special units include:

• Neurosurgery
• Cardiothoracic surgery
• Neonatal and pediatric surgery and intensive care
• Pediatric oncology
• Level I trauma center (including trauma helicopter)