Our Hospital

The Klinikum Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Garmisch-Partenkirchen Hospital is a major primary and secondary centre of health care with 505 beds run by the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It is situated in the German Alps approx. 90km South of Munich and provides health care for the local population as well as for the inhabitants of the surrounding districts.

It is academic teaching hospital of the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University, Munich. Approx. 20.000 in-patients and more than 30.000 out-patients are treated every year. As Garmisch-Partenkirchen and its surroundings are well-known winter and summer tourist resorts and due to its position close to the Austrian border there is a substantial fraction of external and international patients as well.

The hospital is especially and widely known for its expertise in

• Joint replacement: Endogap Joint Replacement Institute performs more than 2200 joint replacement operations a year
  
  
• Trauma and reconstructive surgery due to mountain and sports injuries: The traumatological department is run under the guidance of the nearby Trauma Centre Murnau, a multi-regional center for the care of the gravely injured.
  
  
• Internal Medicine: The Center for Internal Medicine with the three main subdepartments Cardiology, Gastroenterology and Oncology is responsible for the non-surgical medical care in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Hospital as well as in the Trauma Centre Murnau

Furthermore there are main departments for Anaesthesiology, General, visceral, thoracic and endocrine Surgery, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Pediatrics and Neonatalogy, Pathology, Radiology, Urology and Vascular Surgery.

The hospital is certified by the KTQ (Cooperation for Transparency and Quality) organization.

The endogap joint replacement institute is part of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Hospital and Clinics and situated in the south wing. Due to its integration into a major health care facility a number of advantages follow:

• Availability of other medical facilities and departments. 
  If needed other health concerns can easily be diagnosed and treated during the hospital stay.
  
  
• Security though specialists being available around the clock.
  If complications occur inadvertently medical specialists from different fields are on call at all hours.
  
  
• A wide spectrum of high quality diagnostic and therapeutic equipment is available.  
  Use of cardiac catheter, CT scan, MRI, radiation therapy etc. is possible if necessary.
  
  
• Scientific exchange with Munich University. 
  As a teaching hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich cutting edge developments and techniques can be shared and implemented.

The endogap joint replacement institute thereby offers the best possible combination of two worlds: 
On one side the complete, competent major medical care facility and teaching hospital with a broad therapeutic spectrum and numerous medical departments. And on the other side the integrated highly specialised joint replacement institute with a maximally focused therapy finely tuned to your personal requirements and an array of services you might expect from a optimized private clinic.