The document summarizes plans for a new University Hospital in Odense, Denmark, including key facts and reasons for building a new hospital. The new 212,000 square meter hospital will cost 6.3 billion Danish kroner to build, alongside a 25,000 square meter mental health facility costing 600 million kroner and a 50,000 square meter University faculty costing 1.1 billion kroner. Rebuilding the existing hospital was deemed too difficult, expensive, and disruptive, while a new facility next to the University provides an opportunity for specialized treatment, attracting national and international patients, and connecting healthcare, innovation, and research.

1. Hospital+Innovation
New University Hospital Odense
1st of October 2013
Torsten Lundgreen
New OUH
- Human scale and Flexibility through layout, functionality and architecture
1

2. Facts
BYGHERRE
•
University hospital, somatic health
services
– Funded by the Region of Southern
Denmark and Ministry of Health
– 212,000 m2
– 6.3 billion kr.
•
University hospital, mental health
services
– Funded by the Region of Southern
Denmark
– 25,000 m2
– 0.6 billion kr.
•
Faculty of Health Sciences
at the University of Southern
Denmark
– Governmental financing
– 50,000 m2
– 1.1 billion kr.
BYGHERRERÅDGIVER
TOTALRÅDGIVER

3. BYGHERRE
BYGHERRERÅDGIVER
TOTALRÅDGIVER

4. Why build a new university hospital in Odense?
BYGHERRE
BYGHERRERÅDGIVER
TOTALRÅDGIVER
• Difficult and expensive to reconstruct and modernise the existing
hospital
• Rebuilding will never create the same opportunities
• Rebuilding would be a burden on the daily running of the hospital
• The construction of a university hospital next to the University of
Southern Denmark is a unique opportunity to create a university
hospital that can provide highly specialised treatment for all patients in
the Region of Southern Denmark
• Attract patients from all of Denmark and abroad
• Create one connected building structure unit of production, innovation
and research