VU university teaching hospital to close, merge into AMC (opens in new tab)

Amsterdam’s VU university medical centre is to stop operating as a hospital in 2040 and will transfer all its care activities to the AMC teaching hospital in Amsterdam’s Zuidoost district by that date. The two university hospitals formally merged in 2018 under the moniker Amsterdam UMC. The organisation’s board said in a statement this week that it was too expensive to keep the VU hospital operational and the move would free up money for other investments. “Healthcare is becoming increasingly...