Haartman Hospital
The Haartman Hospital is a hospital at the Meilahti Tower Hospital area in Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland. The hospital started operating in autumn 2009. The hospital was named after the physician Johan Haartman, who founded the first hospital in Finland in Turku in 1799 and is considered the father of Finnish medicine.
Architecture and fittings
The building was designed by the Finnish architecture bureau Virta-Palaste-Leinonen Arkkitehdit. The facades are made of screen printed glass with a blue pattern designed by the artist Markku Keränen in the background. The light chasms on the third floor bear sculptures by the Finnish artist Kirsi Kaulanen. The light chasms bring light into the central patient spaces and also work as vehicles for smoke removal. The second floor, serving as the entrance floor, holds a patient registering space completely made of glass and completely insulated for sound, the first one in Finland and one of the few in the entire world at the time of construction.Services
The hospital hosts the following activities:- outpatient department for women's diseases
- appointment outpatient department for cardiology
- emergency duty department
- three departments for internal organ diseases
- X-ray