| Mission |
Health care and health care research are both highly dynamic fields. Doctors, paramedics and scientists are constantly having to deal with changes, be it in the organisation, in the financing of care, or in the growing demand for high-quality care products. In addition to developments in curative health care, there is a growing focus on prediction and prevention The University Hospital Maastricht (azM) and the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University (UM) are in the midst of these developments and are continually looking for effective and ambitious solutions to the challenges they face. The main tasks of the university hospital Maastricht are patient care, education and research, all of which are closely interrelated. In addition to standard patient care, top referral care and advanced clinical care play an important role at azM. Advanced clinical care and top referral care require fine-tuning and close cooperation with the fundamental research at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University and (experimental) clinical research at azM. Key research areas are cardiovascular diseases, oncology, chronic diseases and mental health care and neurosciences. azM is located in the centre of the Euregion Meuse-Rhine. University hospitals in Liege and Aachen lie within a range of just thirty kilometres. Intensifying collaboration in the Euregion is one of the hospital's main goals. The university hospital Maastricht ( www.azm.nl and www.summum.mumc.nl ) has 715 hospital beds and over 4.700 employees. It is part of the 'Dutch Federation of University Medical Centers', the NFU ( www.nfu.nl ). The NFU is a cooperative venture involving the eight university medical centers (UMCs) in the Netherlands, with the primary aim of promoting the UMCs' common interests. |
