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Heart and Lung Center

We offer specialist medical care in the fields of cardiology, cardiac surgery, pulmonary diseases, and general thoracic and esophageal surgery.

Lääkäri, hoitaja ja potilas keuhko- ja ruokatorvikirurgian osastolla M11.

We are responsible for the emergency services for heart diseases around the clock. In thoracic diseases, the Heart and Lung Center has Finland's only specialist-level emergency clinic for pulmonary diseases and emergency-care preparedness for thoracic diseases.

We have national responsibility for heart and lung transplants. We are also the centralized unit responsible for the treatment of rare and demanding congenital diseases of the thoracic cavity and the heart.

The Heart and Lung Center is the largest center in Finland and is a major center even on a European scale. The center plays a pioneering role in robot-assisted and video-assisted surgery.

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Nursing at the Heart and Lung Center

Our goal is that every patient cared for in our unit receives excellent care. Our nursing work is governed by the professional practice model of nursing and HUS strategy and values: Caring, Equality and Pioneership.

In excellent nursing, the satisfaction of our patients, the job satisfaction of our nurses, and the quality of our nursing care are at the center. We measure all these aspects and compare the outcomes with national and international results.

Our nurses are professional and genuinely caring. Our nursing is comprehensive and based on multiprofessional cooperation.

We want our patients to receive the best possible care every day. The patient feedback we have received emphasize the genuine caring, professionalism and competence of nurses. We collect patient feedback on our nursing care, and we go through all the feedback to process it. The feedback we receive on nursing is valuable so that we can develop our operations.

Our skilled nursing staff who thrive in their work enable the high-quality patient care we provide. We monitor the job satisfaction and commitment to work of our nurses on a regular basis. We utilize the results to develop factors that support the wellbeing of our nursing staff. According to the results, the nurses at the Heart and Lung Center are more satisfied with their work than the national average.