Heart and Lung Center

In the Cardiology division, we examine and treat the most severe congenital heart defects and other rare heart diseases in adult patients nationally.

In the Cardiac Surgery division, we examine and treat heart diseases. Diagnostic examinations and surgical procedures for cardiac surgery in adult patients have been centralized in the Heart and Lung Center at Meilahti Tower Hospital. 

In the Pulmonary Disease division, we are responsible for the activities of the specialty of pulmonary diseases in the hospitals of Meilahti, Jorvi, and Peijas, the Skin and Allergy Hospital (Sleep Research Outpatient Clinic), and the Rekola Group Home, and home care for respiratory paralysis patients. 

The General Thoracic Surgery Division is a leading national center and developer of the field in Finland. We treat patients with benign or malignant diseases in the lungs, esophagus or trachea, mediastinum or chest wall that can be treated surgically or endoscopically. 

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.

We strive for safe nursing of the highest quality. Thanks to the continuous development of nursing, we have been able to, among other things, minimize pressure injuries and catheter and cannula-derived infections occurring during care. To prevent falls, we have done a lot of development work, for example, with the help of smart technology.