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You wish to receive medical care in Germany, why Helios?
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Extensive network throughout Germany:
Helios is a company of Fresenius and is among the largest hospital groups in Europe. Our hospitals, centers and facilities offer first-class patient care in prevention, acute care medicine and rehabilitation from a single source.
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Our doctors are experts in their specialities, ensuring the highest level of medical treatment by maintaining close collaboration with colleagues and attending regular continuing education courses.
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We take care of our patients in their own language and are there for them before, during and after the treatment. At Helios, you can expect comfortable accommodation and excellent services in a modern atmosphere.
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Medical equipment of the latest generation:
We constantly improve and renew our medical equipment, thus providing state-of-the-art standards of treatment and patient's quality of life.
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The medical treatment is precisely tailored to every single patient. Owing to our large network, even rare conditions can be treated without any problems.
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Acute Care Medicine
Helios is Europe's leading private hospital operator with more than 120,000 employees. Helios Germany operates more than 80 hospitals, about 230 outpatient care centers with 600 accredited doctor's licenses, six prevention centers and 27 occupational medicine centers. Helios treats...
Rehabilitation
We offer you not only physiotherapy and equipment training, but also prevention courses, pre-rehabilitation, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, occupational therapy and pre-operative training - all in all, a comprehensive range of treatments that is second to none.
Ortho-Campus
The Ortho-Campus of Helios Cäcilien Hospital Hüls (Krefeld) offers a one-of-a-kind service: We take a holistic approach to arthroplasty. This means that patients who require a new hip or knee joint receive all services in one place, from preparation and surgery to subsequent rehabilitation....
Check-ups
The combination of medical diagnostics, medical state-of-the-art technology and plenty of time for a confidential discussion enables us to provide tailored advice on current complaints and existing health risks. If changes in lifestyle make sense, practical and easy-to-implement measures...
Our Top Hospitals
Our articles
Stralsund: Removal of lung cancer using the da Vinci surgical robot
At the end of 2025, lung cancer was diagnosed in Grit Otto-Moritz (60). Doctors at Helios Hanseklinikum Stralsund were able to gently remove the tumor using the DaVinci surgical robot. This cancer is gone, but other bad news casts a shadow over the new year. Sometimes life is incredibly...
Helios Bad Saarow receives the quality seal “Excellent. FOR CHILDREN 2026–2027”
Minister Andreas Philippi, Lower Saxony’s Minister for Social Affairs, Labour, Health and Equality and Chair of the 2026 Conference of Health Ministers, awards the Children’s Clinic of Helios Hospital Bad Saarow the quality seal “Excellent. FOR CHILDREN 2026–2027.” On 24 February...
Helios Krefeld: First robot-assisted bypass surgery
The Niederrhein Heart Center is taking a significant step forward in patient care: Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. med. Diyar Saeed, the first robot-assisted bypass operation within the Helios network was performed at the beginning of February. The method is particularly gentle...
Helios Hospital Gotha: 250 operations with the Mako System
Patient Christine Blei from Arnstadt consciously chose the Musculoskeletal Center at Helios Hospital Thüringen Mitte — everything under one roof, from surgery with the SmartRobotics™ System to rehabilitation. Her motivation stems from the hope of finally being able to live without...
Karlsruhe: First artificial tricuspid valve implanted via catheter
At the Helios Hospital for Cardiac Surgery in Karlsruhe, the Karlsruhe Heart Team has implanted a so-called Evoque valve for the first time. This artificial valve replaces the tricuspid valve and has now been implanted for the first time using a particularly gentle catheter-based...
Karlsruhe: First implantation of an extravascular defibrillator
At the Helios Hospital for Cardiac Surgery in Karlsruhe, Senior Physician and Head of Arrhythmia Surgery, Dr. Naser Ghaffari Mehrjerdi, together with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kuschyk, Head of Cardiac Device Therapy at the University Hospital Mannheim, implanted an innovative defibrillator...
Kassel: First temporomandibular joint endoprosthesis implanted
When Ayshe Nuri smiles today, there is a special reason: for the first time in years, the 55-year-old woman can open her mouth again — more than just a few millimeters. She owes this to a procedure performed for the first time by the expert team of oral, maxillofacial, and plastic...
Siegburg: Reunion after a rare Ross procedure
An increasing number of patients are benefiting from the Ross procedure, which is offered at the heart center of Helios Hospital Siegburg. In this rare surgical method, the diseased aortic valve is replaced with the patient’s own pulmonary valve, which is then substituted with a donor...
Helios ENDO-Hospital Hamburg: Over 6,000 successful procedures
Helios ENDO-Hospital Hamburg: has reached another milestone as part of the PROvalue Endo quality contract: in Hamburg, more than 6,000 endoprosthetic procedures have now been accompanied by digital outcome measurements from the patient’s perspective. This makes the clinic one of the...
Helios Hospitals Cluster Leipzig deliver outstanding medical results
Helios Hospitals demonstrates outstanding medical quality. The quality figures now published for 2025 show that patients at Helios receive care at the highest level. Which hospital offers the best treatment for me or my relatives? Reliable and transparent information about the...
Park Hospital Leipzig: Research on innovative treatment methods for colorectal cancer
Helios Park Hospital Leipzig is participating as one of 30 centers worldwide in the international randomized multicenter study “DEL-LIVER” and has become the first center in Germany authorized to enroll patients. The study is aimed at patients with liver metastases from advanced-stage...
Helios Hospitals in the Berlin–Brandenburg cluster deliver outstanding medical results
Helios Hospitals demonstrates outstanding medical quality. The quality figures published for 2025 show that patients at Helios receive care at the highest level. Which hospital offers the best treatment for me or my relatives? Reliable and transparent information about the quality...
Helios Hospitals in the Rhine–Ruhr cluster deliver outstanding medical results
Helios demonstrates outstanding medical quality. The quality figures published for 2025 show that patients at Helios receive care at the highest level. When hospitalization is necessary, everyone wants the best possible treatment. But how do you find the right hospital? Which hospital...
Doctor from Helios Hamburg joined the board of the German Heart Foundation
The German Heart Foundation has appointed Dr. Ryszard Wesolowski to its Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Wesolowski is the Chief Physician of Cardiology / Internal Intensive Care Medicine at the Helios Mariahilf Hospital in Hamburg. The cardiology specialist will support the patient...
Helios Berlin-Buch: Workouts of a patient with colon cancer
Norbert Hell has been a passionate road cyclist not only since his retirement. A sudden and significant drop in performance initially did not make him think of cancer. The 70-year-old has now been a patient with colon cancer and liver metastases for nine months at the Helios Hospital...
Helios Hildesheim has been certified as a diabetes treatment cent
The pediatric diabetes outpatient clinic at Helios Hospital Hildesheim has received the “Diabetes Center DDG” quality seal from the German Diabetes Association. This officially certifies that the facility meets the high structural and process quality standards required for the specialized...
Leipzig: The professor received two awards for scientific achievements
University Professor Dr. med. Holger Thiele, Deputy Medical Director and Director of the University Hospital for Cardiology – Helios Endowed Professorship at the Heart Center Leipzig, will be honored twice in 2026: with the Paul Morawitz Prize of the German Cardiac Society and with...
Pforzheim: Certification as a unit for the treatment of heart failure
Following its initial certification in 2023, the cardiology department of Helios Hospital Pforzheim has been recertified by the German Cardiac Society as a specialized heart failure treatment center (Heart Failure Unit, HFU). An HFU center is a specialized treatment unit for patients...
Bad Saarow: New robotic angiography system
A higher resolution than the previous model, significantly reduced radiation exposure, and improved user-friendliness speak for themselves. Patients in vascular surgery benefit from this new technology in the hybrid operating room at Helios Hospital Bad Saarow. At Helios Hospital...
Heart Center Leipzig: Modern robotic surgical technologies
As early as 1998, the world’s first robot-assisted heart valve surgery was performed at the Leipzig Heart Center. 28 years later, a new and improved generation of the da Vinci surgical robot is returning to its place of origin. The surgical robot is used in cardiac surgery at the...
Helios Krefeld: New dual leadership of the Department of Pulmonology
A generational change in pulmonology, sleep medicine, and respiratory care at Helios Hospital Krefeld: Dr. Manuel Streuter has stepped down from his role as Chief Physician. His two successors are continuing the long-standing passion for respiratory medicine. Dr. Benoit Krämer-Relius...
Helios Stralsund: A new treatment method for ischemic heart disease
The cardiologists at Helios Stralsund are expanding their range of services with an innovative procedure for patients with severe heart disease: the so-called coronary sinus (CS) reducer. This new therapy is aimed particularly at people with advanced coronary artery disease for whom...
Helios Berlin-Buch: Successful treatment of esophageal cancer
For many people, eating is a pleasure, including Holger Lehmann, who co-runs a winery in Brandenburg. However, when the then 58-year-old could no longer swallow a bite, he was diagnosed with cancer of the food pipe during a gastroscopy at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch. He was successfully...
Helios Duisburg: How an ear infection can lead to paralysis
When four-year-old Jayce-Sukree complains of an earache one morning, nobody suspects what the next few days have in store for the family. The discomfort seems harmless at first, because a short time later Jayce is playing happily again. But ten days later comes a shock: the little...
Helios Emil von Behring: Esophageal cancer cured in an 88-year-old patient
When you see Dieter Damm, you wouldn't think that he had been on the operating table less than ten days earlier and had survived a challenging operation: He is fit and dynamic and enjoys talking about himself and his life. He has Prof. Dr. Marc H. Jansen, Head Physician at the Clinic...
Helios Duisburg: 7x5 centimeter tumor of the parotid gland
"I no longer need to play the lottery" - Marcel Straub's story begins seemingly inconspicuously: during a cold, his wife notices that the lymph nodes in his neck are swollen. When this condition persists even after his recovery, a visit to the family doctor becomes unavoidable....
Duisburg: Encouraging after laryngeal cancer - Thomas Petersjohann's story
What begins as a simple hoarseness changes Thomas Petersjohann's life dramatically. For six months, the symptoms steadily increased. Eventually, he can barely swallow and drinks almost nothing. The frightening diagnosis is a T4a tumor in the larynx. Due to acute respiratory distress,...
Helios Wuppertal: Surgeons successfully implant aortic arch prosthesi
Vascular and cardiac surgeons at Helios University Hospital Wuppertal (HUKW) have inserted an aortic arch prosthesis in an interdisciplinary operation. It was the first operation of its kind at HUKW and in Wuppertal. Frank Steinwachs had a stroke of luck: an aortic aneurysm was...
Tim Niehues: A novel approach to the treatment of fever
In most cases, fever goes away on its own. The level of fever is not automatically an indicator of the severity of the illness. It is a normal bodily response that helps the child. What may sound simple is, in fact, a completely new approach to dealing with fever. A new guideline...
Krefeld: Expansion of robotic surgery and advancement of operating suites
Since early 2020, the Hüls Ortho Campus in Krefeld has been setting new standards in endoprosthetic care with an innovative concept. In the field of joint surgery, this includes robot-assisted implantation of knee and hip joints as well as the development of tailored treatment pathways,...
Wiesbaden: Early-stage detection of lung cancer with Ion bronchoscopy system
When lung cancer develops, it usually causes no symptoms and is therefore often detected at a late stage. Cutting-edge technology is now revolutionizing diagnostic examinations when lung cancer is suspected, enabling physicians to make highly precise diagnoses—a breakthrough in the...
Certified Cancer Care at Helios Park-Hospital Leipzig
This year, the Visceral Oncology Center at Helios Park-Hospital Leipzig successfully passed two major audits, once again demonstrating its high standard of medical quality, professional expertise, and strong interdisciplinary collaboration. As part of the annual surveillance audit...
Helios Park-Hospital Leipzig: Treatment of a Rare Form of Cancer in a Mother and Son
Thirty-two years ago, Prof. Dr. med. Peter Lamesch first treated Mrs. Gerlinde Keil. Together with his colleagues, the physician diagnosed the then 33-year-old mother of two children with a rare hereditary condition: multiple endocrine neoplasia. The disease is characterized by malignant...
Park-Hospital Leipzig Implants 50th Patient-Specific Shoulder Endoprosthesis
Standard shoulder joint implants are not suitable for all patients. An unusual bone anatomy, severe bone defects caused by wear or previous surgeries may require a patient-specific joint replacement. Affected patients can receive individualized care at the Orthopedic and Traumatology...
Leipzig: Thoracoscopic treatment of chronic cardiac arrhythmias
The Leipzig Heart Center is among the few clinics that are able to offer specialized treatment to patients with persistent atrial fibrillation. Thoracoscopic ablation serves as an alternative or adjunct therapy when conventional ablation procedures have failed to achieve long-term...
Leipzig: Mother and son undergo life-saving heart surgeries
In Germany, approximately 10,000 people are affected by Marfan syndrome. This rare genetic disorder causes a connective tissue disease that affects multiple organ systems. In the heart, excessive dilation of blood vessels can lead to life-threatening ruptures, for example of the main...
Leipzig: Surgical treatment of congenital heart defects in children
After years of unexplained symptoms, a severe congenital heart defect was diagnosed in the summer of 2022 in Charlotte, who was four years old at the time and urgently required surgery. Through open-heart surgery, the experts at the Heart Center Leipzig were able to cure the child...
Chimeric HDAC inhibitors as a novel therapeutic approach for prostate cancer
As part of a joint research project between the Department of Urology at Medical School Berlin and the Institute of Physiology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Ms. Isabel Groth is investigating the effects of novel histone deacetylase inhibitors on prostate cancer. Histones...
Leipzig: Extravascular defibrillator in Brugada syndrome
For the first time, an extravascular defibrillator was successfully implanted at the Heart Center Leipzig in a patient with the rare Brugada syndrome — a genetically determined disorder of the heart’s electrical signaling that can trigger life-threatening ventricular fibrillation....
Successful removal of a rare malignant spinal tumor
In April 2024, a malignant bone tumor was removed from Daniela J.’s lumbar spine. Both the tumor’s location and the surgical procedure itself are extremely rare. Following two high-risk operations performed by the neurosurgical team at Helios Hospital, Daniela J. has since adjusted...
Heart Center Leipzig: Implantation of an innovative artificial heart
At the Heart Center Leipzig, a highly innovative heart support system was implanted in autumn 2025 – only for the third time in Europe. The DuoCor BiVAS supports both the left and right ventricles simultaneously and is significantly more compact than conventional biventricular systems....
Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch receives certification as a Pancreatic Cancer Center
Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch has been successfully certified as a Pancreatic Cancer Center by the German Cancer Society (DKG). With this certification, the largest maximum-care hospital in the north-east of the capital underlines its commitment to the highest standards of care and...
Helios Dachau: Stabilizing the heart rhythm changes lives
For many years, Mrs. Zimmer lived with symptoms that increasingly shaped her daily life: recurrent dizziness, sudden heart palpitations, and a vague feeling of weakness that severely limited her quality of life. Numerous medical consultations, multiple diagnoses, and the hope for...
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Physicians at Helios
Chief Physician Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
Prof. Dr. med. Marc Bloching
Ear, Nose & Throat
Chief Physician Nuclear Medicine at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Dresel
Nuclear Medicine
Chief Physician at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
Prof. Dr. med. Frank Kolligs
Internal Medicine & Rheumatology
Chief Physician Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
Prof. Dr. med. Robert Krempien
Radiotherapy
Chief Physician Dermatology & Allergology at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
Dr. med. Kerstin Lommel
Dermatology
Chief Physician Pediatric Surgery at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Gfrörer
Pediatric Surgery
Chief Physician Obstetrics & Gynecology at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
Prof. Dr. med. Michael Untch
Gynecology
Chief Physician of the Clinic for General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery at Helios Park Hospital Leipzig
Prof. Dr. med. Michael Bartels
Visceral & General Surgery
Medical Director of Helios Private Clinic Leipzig I Managing Senior Physician of the University Clinic for Cardiac Surgery at Heart Center Leipzig
Prof. Dr. med. Sergey Leontyev
Cardiac Surgery
Chief Physician of the Department of Dermatology / Head of the Oncology Center at Helios Hospital Krefeld
Prof. Dr. med. Chalid Assaf
Dermatology
Chief Physician of the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics Head of the Gynecological Cancer Center at Helios Hospital Krefeld
Prof. Dr. med. Michael Friedrich
Gynecology
Head of the Medical Clinic for Internal Medicine at Helios Rhein-Ruhr Hospitals Duisburg
Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Frieling
Internal Medicine & Rheumatology
Chief Physician of the Clinic for Orthopedics, Trauma and Hand Surgery at Helios Hospital Krefeld
Prof. Dr. med. Clayton Kraft
Orthopedics
Chief Physician of the Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine at Helios Hospital Krefeld
Prof. Dr. med. Tim Niehues
Pediatrics
Chief Physician of the Clinic for Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery at Helios Hospital Krefeld
Dr. med. Truong Phan
Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery
Chief Physician of the Clinic for Neurosurgery and Spinal Surgery at Helios Hospital Krefeld
Prof. Dr. med. Michael Stoffel
Neurosurgery
Chief Physician Pneumology, sleep and respiratory medicine at Helios Hospital Krefeld
Dr. med. Manuel Streuter
Respiratory Diseases
Chief Physician general, visceral and minimally invasive surgery at Helios Hospital Krefeld
PD Dr. med. Christoph Wullstein
Visceral & General Surgery
Chief Physician Hematology & Stem Cell Therapy at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
Prof. Dr. med. Bertram Glaß
Hematology & Oncology
Chief Physician Orthopaedic Oncology at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
PD Dr. med. Per-Ulf Tunn
Tumor Orthopedics
Chief Physician of the Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Director of the Heart Center Lower Rhine at Helios Hospital Krefeld
Prof. Dr. med. Diyar Saeed
Heart & Heart Surgery
Chief Physician of the Clinic for Ophthalmology at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
Dr. med. Christoph von Sonnleithner
Ophthalmology
Chief Physician for General, Visceral and Oncological Surgery at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
Prof. Dr. med. Roger Wahba
Visceral & General Surgery
Chief Physician Angiology, internal medicine, diabetology at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
Dr. med. Peter Klein-Weigel
Angiology
ENT & Facial Plastic Surgeon at Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
Dr. med. Joachim Quetz
Ear, Nose & Throat
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