Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia

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).

Cooperations
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:
 * 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

General orientation
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.