Hospital of Southern Norway
Hospital of Southern Norway (
Helse Sør-Øst
as owner.
The trust is organised into six clinics, which have medical specialities independent of their geographical placement. The five clinics are:[1]
- Medical clinic
- Surgical clinic
- Clinic for psychiatric health - psychiatry and dependency behaviour
- Medical service clinic (related functions)
- Clinic for radiology
- Rehabilitation unit
Hospital of Southern Norway has large centres at
Mandal and Farsund
. In addition, there are small psychiatric drop-ins in many of the smaller municipalities, often with responsibility for patients from neighbouring municipalities.
In 2004, the hospital took responsibility for alcoholism treatment in the Agder counties, and this came under the psychiatric and psychological treatment in Arendal and Kristiansand.
Before the health reforms
Prior to the state taking control of the hospitals on 1 February 2003, the hospital functions were dealt with by the municipality. Within the trust of Hospital of Southern Norway, there are the following hospitals:
- Aust-Agder Central Hospital Arendal, ASA (now: Sørlandet Hospital Arendal)
- Vest-Agder Central Hospital (now: Sørlandet Hospital Kristiansand)
- Eg Hospital(now: Psychiatric Hospital (PSA), Kristiansand)
- Farsund Hospital (now: Disbanded and sold to Farsund municipality)
- Flekkefjord Hospital (now: Sørlandet Hospital Flekkefjord)
- Mandal Hospital (now: Sørlandet Hospital Mandal)
References
- ^ SSHF Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine - Our organisation.
External links
- Hospital of Southern Norway (in Norwegian)
- Departments and visiting addresses (in Norwegian)
- Annual report 2006[permanent dead link]
