The Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, NL

This hospital is the largest of the eight university medical centers in the Netherlands. With the exception of the oncological treatment center, all divisions of the Erasmus MC are housed in the Hoboken district just outside the center of Rotterdam. Erasmus MC-Daniel den Hoed is, at the moment, still located in Rotterdam-South. It will relocate to the new location in the center in 2016, after a new University Medical Center, which is being build at the moment, has been completed. The hospital houses 50 departments, more than 650 medical specialists and 1221 beds. With 61 beds it for instance contains the largest paediatric intensive care unit in the whole of Europe.

The plastic surgery department deals with approximately 35 theater lists each week. The Dutch Craniofacial Unit is operating from within the Sophia Childrens Hospital and sees approximately 100 new craniosynostosis cases and 80 new cleft cases each year. The three plastic surgeons in this unit perform two to three transcranial cases per week.