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The North Estonia Medical Centre

The North Estonia Medical Centre is one of the top health care providers in the country. The North Estonia Medical Centre Foundation is a foundation established on 25th July 2001 by the Republic of Estonia. As a regional hospital, it has the highest-level competence to provide specialised medical care. According to Medical Center’s statutes, our goal is to provide high-quality specialised medical care and ambulance services, to be the learning base of training that precedes and follows the acquiring of health care professionals’ qualifications and does health care related study and research work. 

A patient-centred institution committed to professionalism, innovation and teamwork, the Medical Centre has over 4800 people – doctors, nurses, caregivers and specialists – working for the good of patients. Over 500 of them are doctors and at any given time, 100 medical residents are also based at the hospital. The hospital consists of seven clinics and 32 specialist centres. Similarly to European university hospitals, the North Estonia Medical Centre offers medical care in all specialist fields other than ophthalmology and obstetrics.

In a year, the Medical Centre gives specialised medical care to ca 144 000 patients, of which over 24 500 are treated on the hospital’s 1150 treatment beds. Emergency medicine helps about 84 000 patients a year – in a day, we provide emergency health services to averagely 230 patients.
The NEMC is one of the owners in the Lääne County, Rapla County and Hiiu County hospitals.