University Hospital Regensburg is a high-quality health care center that covers a wide area of the population of about 2.2 million people in the Northeast region of Bavaria. The hospital is one of the most modern and economical clinics of the Federal Republic that has core functions of patient care, research, and teaching.  The hospital is aligned on high-performance medicine, particularly in the fields of transplantation, intensive care, oncology, and cardiovascular diseases and works in cooperation with other specialized clinics to ensure patients get optimal care. The hospital consists of over 25 departments, 43 specialized clinical and research centers and is considered one of the top German university hospitals as it has over 4,900 employees and teaches over 2,000 physicians and dentists every year. The hospital has a bed capacity of 839 beds where over 31,000 inpatients are treated, 52 daycare units where 4,300 patients are treated and outpatient clinics where over 257,000 are treated every year.