 the akershus university hospital (, abbreviated to ahus) is a norwegian public university hospital located in the lÃ¸renskog municipality, in the county of akershus, east of the norwegian capital oslo. it is a teaching hospital and one of four university hospitals affiliated with the university of oslo. the hospital has 9,500 employees. akershus university hospital has 699 beds in somatic sector (including technical beds&nbsp;â neonatal, heart supervision and intensive care), and 254 beds in psychiatric sector. in november 2008 a new hospital building designed by danish architecture practice arkitektfirmaet c. f. mÃ¸ller opened. setting new standards for hospital architecture in norway, it claims to be the most modern in europe. ==history== akershus university hospital was officially opened on 15 may 1961 as the akershus central hospital (sia). the area on which it was built, nordbyhagen in lÃ¸renskog eventually became developed with more homes and apartments, nursery schools, convenience store and several buildings with associated with hospital functions. in 1978, the hospital began its second major phase, and it has since been built a series of individual buildings and minor additions to the hospital. the norwegian parliament (the storting) decided in 1999 that the then central hospital of akershus (sia) would be a teaching hospital. the first teaching programs started in 2001 and it was promptly escalated so as to give the medical students proper teaching for the entire duration of their study. today the "faculty division" is one of the ten departments affiliated with the faculty of medicine at the university of oslo. since 2002, the university hospital figured prominently in medical research and medical education. ===the new hospital=== in 2003 the storting gave the go-ahe
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