OUH Company basis
The purpose of the document ‘OUH company basis’ is to make visible the basis that is a common basis for management, operation and development at all levels in the organization OUH. The corporate foundation includes the organization’s mission and vision, development plan and overall personnel policy values.
The document concerns employees at the hospital, but can also be read by patients and relatives, authorities and external partners.
Strategies and policies at OUH
Our ambition is to be the “Patient’s University Hospital”. This is our approach when we at OUH together must create value for patients. We fulfill that promise to patients by living out our values: “Patient first”, “Highest professionalism” and “Holiness and responsibility”
OUH Odense University Hospital – Svendborg Hospital (OUH) is one of the country’s largest hospitals.
OUH is both the Funen hospital and at the same time receives patients with complicated diagnoses from the entire region. It provides a recording area that covers approx. 1.2 million citizens. In addition, the hospital treats patients from all over the country in need of highly specialized treatment in a number of areas.
Key figures for OUH
OUH Odense University Hospital – Svendborg Hospital treats patients from Funen for a number of common diseases.
At the University Hospital in Odense, patients from the rest of Denmark and in some cases from abroad are also treated for complicated disorders such as: cardiovascular disease, cancer and replantations of fingers, hands, etc.
Other areas where OUH is a leader are, for example, allergies, difficult wounds, diabetes, pediatrics, treatment of disorders of the esophagus, infectious diseases and arthritis and connective tissue diseases.
Doctors from several highly specialized departments often work together to treat one patient, and the idea of bringing several treatments together to reinforce a treatment offer has led to several center formations that have attracted attention, nationally and internationally.
| Treatment capacity | |
| Number of standard beds: | 1,046 th most common |
| Number of treatments: | Approx. 1,100,000 outpatient visits, including 100,000 emergency outpatients |
| Approx. 106,000 discharged patients with a total of approx. 356,000 bed days. | |
| Regional functionsHighly specialized featuresCountry features | 294 out of 314412 out of 65216 |
| Research | |
| Odense and Svendborg (2018) | 108 professors |
| 79 adjunct professors | |
| 109 research lecturers, assistant professors and post.doc. | |
| 284 PhD students | |
| Education | About 3000 students in 23 different programs |
| Clinical departments Patient satisfaction (LUP Light Plus 2019) | 42 clinical departments 79% of the acutely admitted patients are very or very satisfied with the process from hospitalization to discharge.84% of the planned hospitalized patients are to a large or very high degree satisfied with the process from hospitalization to discharge.87% of the outpatients are very or very satisfied with the course of the visit. |
| Economy | |
| Budget in 2020: | 7.3 billion kr. |
| Number of full-time employees May 2020 | 8,843 |
| Odense | 7,813 |
| SvendborgNyborg and Ærø | 903118 |
| Number of employees (persons) May 2020 Odense SvendborgNyborg and Ærø | 10,2979,0261,135136 |
| The largest staff groups (number of persons):Nurses Doctors and dentists Service and cleaning assistants Medical secretaries Bioanalysts Other nursing staff Employees in staff and service departments Therapists Students, wage subsidies and flex / care jobs Midwives |