About the Foundation
Tallinn Children's Hospital Foundation is a charity foundation - the aim of which is to contribute to a child-friendly hospital and to provide the best possible medical care at the Tallinn Children's Hospital.
The Foundation has been awarded:
1998
Best Foundation of the Year by NENO
2004
Award by UNICEF
2004
Best PR Prize of the Year by EPRA
2007
Mission Award by Aadu Luukas Fund
Tallinn Children's Hospital is the largest children's hospital in Estonia. There are 173 hospital beds and 21 beds for day-care patients.
Nearly 12,000 children a year are treated here, approximately 400 of which are treated in the intensive care department. Nearly 6,000 children undergo surgery a year.
The number of staff at Tallinn Children's Hospital is 797, 130 of them are doctors and 300 nurses.
Main costs are covered by the National Health Insurance Fund, but there is not enough money for purchasing all the necessary medicines and expensive equipment.