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Region Stockholm
Region Stockholm (''Swedish: Region Stockholm'') is the regional public body responsible for healthcare, public transport, and regional planning within Stockholm County, Sweden. Established on 1 January 2019, it replaced the former Stockholm County Council (''Stockholms läns landsting'') as part of a nationwide reform. History When county councils (''landsting'') were established in 1863, Stockholm Municipality (''Stockholms stad'') was neither part of Stockholm County nor its county council. Instead, it operated as a separate entity managing its own county-related matters. During the 20th century, the Greater Stockholm area emerged, as an integrated labour and housing market, increasing the need for regional coordination. A proposal for a "Greater County Council" (''storlandsting'') was introduced. In 1966, the Municipal Association for Regional Affairs of Stockholm City and County (''Kommunalförbundet för Stockholms stads och läns regionala frågor'') was established. By 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regions Of Sweden
In Sweden, a region () is a self-governing administrative division responsible primarily for Healthcare in Sweden, healthcare and Transport in Sweden, public transport. Sweden's regions correspond geographically to Sweden's 21 Counties of Sweden, counties () and were previously known as county councils () until they were restructured and renamed in 2020. Regions () are one of the principal Administrative divisions of Sweden, administrative subdivisions of Sweden. Organisation and responsibilities According to the Basic Laws of Sweden, regions are described as ''"municipalities at the regional level"''. Constitutionally, regions exercise a degree of Self-governance, self-government that does not constitute any degree of federalism, which is consistent with Sweden's status as a unitary state. Regions are responsible for tasks in county-wide geographical areas that often require significant financial resources: primarily healthcare and public transport, but also culture and regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tvärbanan
Tvärbanan () is a light-rail, light rail line in Stockholm, Sweden, which runs largely in a semicircle south, west and north around central Stockholm - crosswise to the otherwise radial Stockholm Metro, metro and Stockholm commuter rail, commuter rail lines of Stockholm. It links together several transit lines through its connections with the southern, western and northern metro branches of the Stockholm Metro (''Tunnelbana'') as well as three branches of the Stockholm commuter rail (''Pendeltåg''). The ability to travel between southern, western and northern greater Stockholm without having to enter the city centre significantly reduces the number of transit passengers, also reducing the number of trains having to pass through Gamla stan, Gamla Stan bottleneck during peak hours. The tramway is separated from roads in most parts, but there are sections in Gröndal, Sundbyberg and Solna Municipality, Solna where the tracks run on roads among regular road traffic. In Hammarby sj� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm Commuter Rail
Stockholm commuter rail () is the commuter rail system in Stockholm County, Sweden. The system is an important part of the public transport in Stockholm, and is controlled by Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. The tracks are state-owned and administered by the Swedish Transport Administration, while the operation of the Stockholm commuter rail services itself has been contracted to SJ AB since March 2024. History Initial operations and early routes Local trains have been operated on the mainline railways around Stockholm since the late nineteenth century. At the beginning, local rail services were part of the Statens Järnvägar, Swedish State Railways, but in the late-1960s, the responsibility for these services was transferred to Stockholm County, which incorporated it with the ticketing system of Stockholm Transport. New trains were bought, stations were modernised, and the Stockholm commuter rail network was developed with an aim of making it more metro-like. Originally the syst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waxholmsbolaget
Waxholms Ångfartygs AB, commonly referred to as Waxholmsbolaget, is a shipping company owned by Stockholm county council and is responsible for the seaborne public transport in the Stockholm archipelago and Stockholm harbour. The company, which is mostly tax-funded, carried about 4.3 million travellers in 2003, covering a region from Arholma in north of the archipelago to Landsort in the south. The company owns 20 archipelago boats, and four boats for the inner-city Djurgården ferry line. The operation of the ships is handled by several contractors, some of whom also operate their own ships on behalf of Waxholmsbolaget. History The origins of the company lie in the ''Djurgårdens Ångbåts-Aktie-Bolag'', which was established in 1849. The company operated a steamboat service to the Stockholm archipelago, using the paddle steamers ''Ran'' and ''Aegir'' on routes from Stockholm to Vaxholm and Dalarö. The new steamboats answered a demand for travel to and from the archipelag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storstockholms Lokaltrafik
Storstockholms Lokaltrafik known as SL, () is the public transport organisation responsible for managing land-based public transport in Stockholm County, Sweden. SL oversees a network that includes the Stockholm Metro, ''Tunnelbana'' metro, Stockholm commuter rail, ''Pendeltåg'' commuter trains, Buses in Stockholm County, buses, Trams in Stockholm, trams, local rail, and some ferry services. SL's network serves approximately 700,000 daily passengers and is financed through a combination of regional taxes and fare revenues. The organisation operates under a Integrated ticketing, unified ticketing system, and contracts with several private operators to run its services, including Transdev, SJ AB, SJ, VR Sverige, Keolis, and AB Stockholms Spårvägar, Stockholms Spårvägar. History SL has its origins in Stockholms Spårvägar (1915), AB Stockholms Spårvägar (SS), a city-owned public transit company which started in 1915, by the City of Stockholm with the aim to Deprivatizatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karolinska Institute
The Karolinska Institute (KI; ; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden and one of the foremost medical research institutes globally. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The assembly consists of fifty professors from various medical disciplines at the university. The current vice-chancellor of Karolinska Institute is Annika Östman Wernerson, who took office in March 2023. The Karolinska Institute was founded in 1810 on the island of Kungsholmen on the west side of Stockholm; the main campus was relocated decades later to Solna, just outside Stockholm. A second campus was established more recently in Flemingsberg, Huddinge, south of Stockholm. The institute also has a Centre for Reparative Medicine, consisting of two nodes, one in Stockholm and one in Hong Kong. The Karolinska Institute is Sweden's thir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Göran Hospital
Saint Göran Hospital ( Swedish: ''Sankt Görans sjukhus'') is a private hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. It is located on Kungsholmen, a small island in the lake Mälaren in the city center. St. Göran is one of Sweden's oldest hospitals. It was mentioned in letters from the 13th century. With Karolinska Hospital (Karolinska sjukhuset) it is Stockholms's main hospital and a primary trauma center. Its name refers to Saint George Saint George (;Geʽez: ጊዮርጊስ, , ka, გიორგი, , , died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to holy tradition, he was a soldier in the ... (''Sankt Göran'' in Swedish). Staff Approximately 1,500 people work at the hospital, including 220 doctors, 560 nurses, and 350 assistant nurses. Notable staff * Dr. Ivan Osiier, Danish épée, foil, and sabre fencer, Olympic silver (épée), 25-time Danish champion History The hospital was incorpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danderyd Hospital
Danderyd Hospital () is a teaching hospital in Danderyd Municipality in northern Greater Stockholm opened in 1922. Until 1964 it was called ''Centrallasarettet i Stocksund''. Danderyd Hospital is one of Sweden's largest emergency hospitals and provides university healthcare distributed across twelve operational areas. Annually, the hospital receives approximately 90,000 emergency patients, 429,000 outpatient visits and 50,000 inpatient visits, and performs 6,300 deliveries. In collaboration with the Karolinska Institutet (KIDS), education and research is conducted around the most common public diseases. Annually, roughly 2,000 students from roughly 100 different institutions of higher learning are welcomed in about 30 different educational programs. The hospital was founded in 1922 as Stockholm County's central hospital in Mörby and was renamed in 1964 to Danderyd Hospital. Danderyds Sjukhus AB is a wholly owned company within Region Stockholm and has around 4,500 employees. Nota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Södersjukhuset
Södersjukhuset (Sös) is one of the largest district general hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. Constructed between 1937 and 1944, it was designed by architects Hjalmar Cederström and Hermann Imhäuser, and the construction was contracted to Toll Byggnads AB. Södersjukhuset has the largest emergency department in Scandinavia Scandinavia is a subregion#Europe, subregion of northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. ''Scandinavia'' most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It can sometimes also .... King Gustaf V inaugurated Södersjukhuset on 3 April 1944. At the time, the building was the largest in Scandinavia. New buildings were added to Södersjukhuset in the 1950s, and Södersjukhuset underwent major refurbishment between 2000 and 2003. With more than 4,000 employees, Södersjukhuset is the third largest employer in Stockholm. The hospital has an underground complex measuring 4,500 square meters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karolinska University Hospital
The Karolinska University Hospital () is a teaching hospital affiliated with Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, with two major sites in the municipalities of Solna and Huddinge. The hospital network is the second largest in Sweden, after Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The present day Karolinska University Hospital is the result of a 2004 merger between the former Huddinge University Hospital (''Huddinge universitetssjukhus'') in Huddinge, south of Stockholm, and the Karolinska Hospital (''Karolinska sjukhuset'') in Solna, north of Stockholm. The new hospital has about 15,000 employees and 1,340 patient beds. The Karolinska University Hospital is closely affiliated with the Karolinska Institutet. It incorporates the Astrid Lindgren Children's hospital in Solna and the Children's Hospital in Huddinge. The old Karolinska University Hospital in Solna (''Gamla Karolinska'') has been replaced by the New Karolinska Solna University Hospital (''Nya Karolinska''). Since 2021, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
