Charité and Jewish Hospital Berlin intensify cooperation
Photo from left: Prof Dr Martin E. Kreis, Chief Medical Officer Charité; Jessica Maaß, Deputy Chairwoman of JKB; Corina Naujock, Head of Clinical Cooperations Charité, Prof. Dr Heyo K. Kroemer, Chairman of the Charité Executive Board; Brit Ismer, Chairwoman of JKB and Dr Robin Kleinwächter, Medical Director JKB/ Copyright: Charité/Maria Streltsova
Berlin, 18 June 2025
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Jewish Hospital Berlin (JKB) intend to cooperate even more closely in future in order to sustainably strengthen medical care in the region. An agreement (Memorandum of Understanding) to this effect has now been signed.
As part of the cooperation, patients in certain areas – for example in emergency medicine, but also in plannable care – will be treated across locations. Treatment pathways are organised in such a way that medical quality, short distances and individual needs can be reconciled even better.
Strong together for local healthcare
The two centres share a long tradition in Berlin – and the ambition to work together for the health of local people. With the agreed cooperation, they want to continue along this path consistently. The collaboration opens up new opportunities to provide patients with a comprehensive range of care and to utilise the respective strengths of both hospitals.
‘Patients in Berlin should continue to have direct access to the medical care they need in the future, and as close to home as possible,’ says Prof Martin E. Kreis, Chief Medical Officer at Charité. ‘This cooperation will bring our two institutions closer together and agree effective, interlinked care pathways so that patients in Berlin will benefit noticeably from this partnership.’
Actively tackling demographic challenges
The co-operation is part of the strategic development of both clinics. Medical needs in Berlin and the surrounding area will change in the coming years – not least due to an ageing population. Charité and the Jewish Hospital Berlin want to react to this at an early stage, as Prof Heyo K. Kroemer, Chairman of the Charité Executive Board, explains: “We are facing immense demographic changes with indispensable challenges for our healthcare. Networking Charité with strong healthcare institutions in Berlin is a key element in solving these challenges. This is the only way we can successfully shape the future together. With the Jewish Hospital Berlin, we have another traditional and agile partner at our side to ensure that Charité is optimally prepared for current and future tasks.”
Brit Ismer, CEO of the Jewish Hospital, adds: “The number of hospitals in Berlin will decrease. Through sensible concentration and specialisation and by expanding our cooperation with Charité, we can continue to ensure that citizens have access to high-quality care close to home.”
“It’s great that two hospitals in Berlin with a long history are moving even closer together. We are convinced that cross-location care concepts in which both cooperation partners focus on their strengths can only bring advantages,” affirms Dr Robin Kleinwächter, Medical Director of the Jewish Hospital.
In addition to optimised treatment paths, the plan is to more closely interlink the services and expand the digital, telemedical options of the partner clinics. The establishment of joint competence centres is also planned. In this way, the partners aim to harmonise their medical services even more closely.
About Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
With more than 100 clinics and institutes on 4 campuses, around 24,000 employees and 3,293 beds, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin is one of the largest university hospitals in Europe. Doctors and scientists research, heal and teach here at the highest international level. Research, teaching and patient care are closely interlinked. As a maximum care provider, Charité provides the highest level of medical care and treats patients with particularly complex, complicated and rare diseases. Optimal treatment quality includes precise diagnostics and innovative therapies. To achieve this, the teams work together on an interdisciplinary and multi-professional basis.
About the Jewish Hospital Berlin
The Jewish Hospital Berlin is a modern emergency hospital with a 269-year tradition. The hospital employs around 840 staff and has 384 beds in the fields of internal medicine: cardiology, angiology, gastroenterology, diabetology, as well as orthopaedics and trauma surgery, general and visceral surgery, vascular surgery, anaesthesiology, neurology, psychiatry and psychotherapy. An MVZ for radiological diagnostics and minimally invasive therapy completes the range of services at the site. The hospital is certified according to DIN EN:ISO and as a clinic suitable for diabetes patients by the DDG and also has the following certified centres: interdisciplinary vascular centre, MS focus centre, supra-regional stroke unit, chest pain unit, cardiac arrest centre and endoprosthetics centre. The Department of Psychiatry holds the CBASP certificate.