Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia

52°11′30″N 8°47′38″E / 52.19163°N 8.79402°E / 52.19163; 8.79402OrganisationTypeSpecialistServicesEmergency departmentYesBeds500 (2010)^[1]SpecialityHeart and DiabetesHelipadYesHistoryOpened1980LinksWebsitewww.hdz-nrw.deListsHospitals in GermanyOther linkswww.hdz-nrw.de/en (English site)

The Herz und Diabeteszentrum (Heart and Diabetes Centre), is a heart clinic in the German town Bad Oeynhausen. It is known for performing the most heart transplants in Germany (over 2,700 since 1989).

Besides having a lot of cooperations with the clinics and institutes of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, it has a lot of national and international cooperations. International cooperations are:^[2]

• Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
• Saitama Medical School Saitama University, Japan
• Nihon University Tokio, Japan
• University of Pécs, Hungary
• University clinic Lyon, France
• Universitätskliniken Salzburg, Austria
• Texas Heart Institute, Houston/Texas, USA
• Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• International Prevention Organization, IPO
• TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital, Tianjin, China

The general orientation of the HDZ NRW is to improve the quality of living of cardiac and diabetes patients by a great amount. The patients get the best treatment with a low risk due to their high performance technology.^[3]