UNIC Athens
Hellenic Healthcare Group
The Medical School at UNIC Athens has established an exclusive partnership with the Hellenic Healthcare Group (HHG), Greece’s largest private healthcare group. The partnership gives its students access to the country’s most extensive private healthcare network, ensuring that they receive clinical training at leading healthcare facilities in Greece.
Founded in 2018, the Hellenic Healthcare Group is committed to the continuous advancement of medical and nursing care. To this end, it develops and operates healthcare facilities and Centres of Excellence that provide internationally competitive healthcare services, while investing in medical research and attracting specialised scientific personnel from Greece and abroad.
Clinical Training and Practice
The partnership gives students of the Medical School at UNIC Athens access to HHG’s healthcare network for clinical training and practice. Students complete their clinical training, with the option of specialisation, in HHG hospitals.
Healthcare Network Capacity
HHG’s network treats more than 1.3 million patients a year across nine hospitals. The Group works with more than 6,917 physicians, employs 5,688 people, and has 1,655 hospital beds and 92 surgical theatres: clinical education inside Greece’s largest private healthcare environment.
Academic and Clinical Integration
The partnership joins academic teaching to clinical practice. HHG’s investment in medical technology and in modern facilities puts students of the Medical School at UNIC Athens in contact with current medical practice and with advanced systems of healthcare delivery.
Major Medical Achievements
HHG’s hospitals have carried out major medical procedures for the first time in Greece, among them the first heart transplant in 1990.
- 1990
First heart transplant in Greece
Hygeia Hospital
- 1999
First water birth in Greece
Leto Hospital
- 2004
First Gamma Knife radiosurgery centre in Greece
Hygeia Hospital
- 2004
First PET/CT department in Greece
Hygeia Hospital
- 2010
First Greek hospital accredited by Joint Commission International
Hygeia Hospital
- 2012
First latest-generation hybrid operating theatre in Greece
Hygeia Hospital
- 2017
First thoracoscopic lung surgery without general anaesthesia in Greece
Hygeia Hospital
Also First in Greece
- Robotic knee and hip arthroplasty with Mako system (Metropolitan Hospital)
HHG in Numbers
- 1.3M+
- Patients Treated Annually
- 6,917
- Collaborating Doctors
- 1,655
- Hospital Beds
- 92
- Surgical Theatres
- 12
- Robotic Surgical Systems
- 5,688
- Employees
- 117,969
- Annual Surgical Procedures
- 8,513
- Annual Births
- 239
- Single Rooms
- 163
- Paediatric Beds
- 148
- ICU Rooms
- 19
- Delivery Rooms
- 14
- Latest Generation MRI Machines
- 23
- Ambulances
For more about the Hellenic Healthcare Group, visit hhg.gr.