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AZ Sint-Jan

AZ Sint-Jan

Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium

AZ Sint-Jan Brugge-Oostende AV offers innovative reference care for everyone. Their hospital tradition is eight centuries old; the first hospital ward of Sint-Jan was built around 1150. Our hospital now has 1,182 beds and every patient can come to us. They offer basic care to highly specialized care on three different campuses: the Sint-Jan and Sint-Franciscus Xaverius campuses in Bruges and the Henri Serruys campus in Ostend.

Mission:
• The AZ Sint-Jan Brugge-Oostende AV is an open (hospital) home where every patient can go for basic to highly specialized care.
• The hospital deliberately invests to provide top and reference care in a number of medical domains.
• This is only possible by paying attention to the professional development and mutual cooperation of the care providers.
• The hospital provides a working environment and structure that allows the creativity of the employees and stimulates continuous improvement.
• Each employee is given the necessary space and powers to guarantee quality assurance.
• The hospital takes the initiative to develop a network with other hospitals and care providers from a broad Flemish region in order to help optimize patient care in that region.

Vision:
• Innovation: innovative
• Reference: reference in the region, guiding in the center of the care network
• Care: taking care of patients and employees through a personal approach
• For everyone
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