Getting ready to open the Hospital City: Will move patients every three minutes

When Aalborg’s new Hospital City at the Super Hospital is ready in 2026, it won’t just be a festive inauguration.

It will also be a massive logistical challenge.

All patients from Aalborg University Hospital South and North must be moved into the new buildings, and the pace will be intense.

Every three minutes, a patient must be transported to the Hospital City.

The plan is for 20 ambulances and patient transport vehicles to run on a fixed route between the hospitals.

Must go fast

With help from the Canadian company Health Care Relocations (HCR), the goal is to ensure that the relocation is carried out safely and smoothly.

Region Nordjylland wrote this on Tuesday.

“It has to go fast, and we need to have all our systems and logistics in place.

Together with the clinicians, we make sure of the most important thing – that patient safety is top-notch. Today we reached our goal without problems, and everything went smoothly,” says senior project manager Joe Hartnett from HCR.

Director tested the route herself

To make sure everything works in practice, test runs of the moving routes are already underway.

Here, nursing director Lisbeth Kjær Lagoni volunteered as a test patient.

“I had to pay attention to whether anything could be done differently from a patient perspective.

I was very happy to experience how skilled our employees are and how they work together with the paramedics.

They kept communicating to me what was going to happen, so I felt completely safe – and I am sure our ‘real’ patients will too,” she said after the test run.

Although a hospital move is something that only happens a few times in Denmark, according to HCR it is a process that is happening somewhere in the world all the time.

Those experiences will help ensure that everything goes according to plan when thousands of patients are moved in Aalborg in 2026.