The RWTH Aachen University Clinic is located in western Aachen in the Laurensberg district in one of the largest hospital buildings in Europe. As a university maximum care provider, the Aachen University Hospital treated around 50,000 inpatients and 200,000 outpatients in 2017. The university clinic employs around 7,000 people in 36 specialist clinics and 25 institutes, six of which are responsible for health care. An intensive interdisciplinary exchange as well as close clinical and scientific networking are made possible by the architectural and organizational bundling of health care, research and teaching under one roof.