Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital (Latvian: Paula Stradiņa Klīniskā universitātes slimnīca) is outpatient and hospital health care service provider in Riga, Latvia In addition hospital plays a role in medical science and medical education. The hospital aims to become a science and a training center to residents and prospective doctors.
Latvia's largest and most important hospital has changed it name eight times: since 1910 it was 2nd Riga City Hospital and the main teaching hospital of the Latvian University since 1928, during Soviet occupation in 1940-1941 - National Clinical Hospital, then during German occupation until 1944 again Riga Hospital, from 1944 till 1948 - National Clinical Hospital, then - Republican Clinical Hospital, from 1958 - Pauls Stradiņš Republican Clinical Hospital, from 1993 - Pauls Stradiņš National Hospital, from 1995 - the Latvian Academy of Medicine Pauls Stradiņš Clinical Hospital. And finally it got its present name - Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital. However since 1958 residents of Riga in daily life refer to the hospital by one very simple single word - Stradiņa.
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