Gødstrup Hospital at a glance

Gødstrup Hospital is a 400-bed modern and newly built teaching hospital in the western part of Central Denmark Region. The hospital is designed to meet future healthcare needs in a stimulating environment with art, colours and facilities promoting recovery as well as mental and physical well-being for both patients and staff.

The hospital’s main goal is to ensure coherence across somatic and psychiatry patient pathways and across medical professions, specialties, departments and sectors.

Moreover, the hospital strives to reach out and establish internal and external partnerships with educational institutions, companies, interest groups and other stakeholders with an entrepreneurial and innovative mindset and a dedicated focus on challenging limitations and exploring new ways and approaches in healthcare.

Attractive research environment

NIDO | Centre for Research and Education contains core facilities to develop and support research, innovation and education in health. The centre offers an attractive environment for current and future research staff spurring interprofessional and interdisciplinary collaborations. Research and innovation go hand in hand and the bench to bedside approach ensures direct benefits for patients. 

Facts about Gødstrup Hospital (2024)

Discharges: 36,245

Average length of stay: 2,8 days

Outpatient visits: 2,633

Births: 2,935

Surgeries: 50,235

Emergency Department visits: 45,478

Full-time staff: 3,493

Research staff

Professors: 7

Associate professors: +25

PhD Students: +30

Scientific publications annually: +215

Organisational strengths

University Clinics

University clinics are based on a formalised agreement between Aarhus University, Health, and Central Denmark Region to promote scientific beacons at regional hospitals and is a recognition of research activities within a specific field.

Gødstrup Hospital hosts six university clinics:

Centre for Patient Reported Outcomes

Gødstrup Hospital hosts the AmbuFlex Centre for Patient-reported Outcomes, which is well-integrated in clinical practice across multiple patient pathways and hospitals.

What we offer

Gødstrup Hospital is a visionary hospital with an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset and a strong synergy between research, education and clinical practice.

The hospital is characterized by a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to finding the best solutions to current and future health care problems and challenges.   

The hospital has a collaborative mindset and is eager to explore new paths, ideas and ways of doing things.

What we need

We welcome new partners and activities that will contribute to further support and expand our ambition to ensure optimal patient pathways through internal and external collaborations and integration of research, innovation, education and clinical practice.

Contact

Henriette Nørmølle Buttenschøn

Head of Research

+45 21 68 36 30
E-Mail: henrbutt@rm.dk