High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sahlgrenska University Hospital (Swedish: Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset) is a system of hospitals associated with the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. The hospital has been named after philanthropist Niclas Sahlgren and is the now one of the largest hospitals in the whole of Northern Europe. It serves the Gothenburg region, which comprises approximately 900,000 people, and also offers highly specialised medical care for the whole of Sweden. The total number of staff is 17,000.