University Hospital of Basel


The University Hospital of Basel, in Basel, is one of the five university hospitals of Switzerland. Since 1842 it is located in a former palace, the Markgräflerhof.
USB brings together 50 clinics, units and institutes all working together in an interdisciplinary manner and employs a staff of about 5000.
With an approximate 670 beds, USB is the biggest healthcare facility in north-western Switzerland.
USB provides services in all fields of medicine apart from pediatrics.
The hospital is well known for its special form of hormone-delivered radiotherapy to treat neuroendocrine cancer, tried by Steve Jobs in 2009.