Healthcare Potential
The close connection between research, business and healthcare institutions is the big advantage of the healthcare region Berlin.
Charité, Berlin-Buch, Rudolf Virchow, Robert Koch ‒ Excellent medical research and renowned clinics have always been a tradition in Berlin. Thanks to close cooperation between science, industry, and healthcare, research findings are quickly put into practice.
People in the region have access to a wide range of services and benefits in the areas of health promotion and prevention, care, rehabilitation, and nursing. At the same time, the region is facing the current challenges of healthcare provision. This includes the needs-based distribution of medical services within the Berlin metropolitan area and the sustainable provision of care in rural regions against the backdrop of demographic change.
New, cross-sector, and integrated healthcare concepts and the use of technologies such as telemedicine or digital applications in the areas of Care 4.0 or Smart Senior Living are becoming increasingly important. Stakeholders in the capital region are developing forward-looking solutions here.
The supply region Berlin-Brandenburg in figures
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the largest university clinic in Europe
- 151 hospitals with more than 35,000 beds
- about 14,000 doctors in the outpatient sector
- more than 1,000 nursing homes, over 1,450 care and support services
(Sources: Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg 2023, KV Berlin 2025, KV Brandenburg 2025)
Why Berlin?
„Modern heart medicine can only succeed with highly specialised and interdisciplinary treatment teams. The University Heart Center Berlin being created jointly by the German Heart Center Berlin and the Charité will strengthen Berlin’s reputation as a location for the very best in cardiac medicine in close cooperation with partners from Vivantes and other medtech companies in our region.“
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Internationally networked
The region has an excellent international reputation – Charité alone has scientists, medical staff, and students from over 100 countries. Many patients from abroad seek treatment in Berlin.
Since 2009, the World Health Summit in Berlin has been contributing to the improvement of global health. The German Society for International Cooperation coordinates the Global Health Hub Germany from Berlin. The WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence has also chosen Berlin as its location. From here, they strengthen global cooperation on pandemic preparedness.
In 2024, the first hub of the WomenX Collective initiative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) opened in Berlin in partnership with UNFPA, Charité, and BIH to make innovative solutions for women's health available worldwide.
In the GETA International project, coordinated by the Digital Urban Center of Aging and Health (DUCAH), new learning and development partnerships in the field of digital participation in old age are being established between Berlin and Californian companies and institutions.
Professionals
The capital region strikes with the highest density of institutions of higher education and research facility in Germany. The 300-year-old Charité, Europe’s largest medical faculty, is located here; In total, more than 130 health-related degree programs and around 60 vocational training programs are offered at various locations in the region to train future professionals for the health industry.
Some large providers and care providers in the region
- Charité – Universitätsmedizin – the largest university hospital in Europe
- Vivantes – largest municipal hospital group in Europe
- Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité – a world leader in heart transplants and artificial heart research
- BG Klinikum Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin – Rescue and rehabilitation of seriously injured people from all over Germany
- HELIOS – one of the largest private providers of inpatient and outpatient services in Europe is headquartered in Berlin and operates three acute clinics as well as a rehabilitation clinic and various medical care center in the region
- Immanuel Albertinen Diakonie – large diaconal provider with inpatient and outpatient services in the areas of actuarial care, nursing, care and living
- ProCurand - with services in outpatient and inpatient care as well as assisted living
- RENAFAN – one of the largest German care providers with networked services in outpatient and inpatient care and assisted living
