Western Norway Regional Health Authority is a state-owned Regional Health Authority

Regional Health Authority

A regional health authority is a state enterprise responsible for specialist healthcare in one of four regions of Norway. Responsibilities of the RHFs include patient treamtment, education of medical staff, research and training of patients and relatives...

 responsible for operating the hospitals in the counties of Rogaland

Rogaland

is a county in Western Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. It is the center of the Norwegian petroleum industry, and as a result of this, Rogaland has the lowest unemployment rate of any county in Norway, 1.1%...

, Hordaland

Hordaland

is a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark and Rogaland. Hordaland is the third largest county after Akershus and Oslo by population. The county administration is located in Bergen...

 and Sogn og Fjordane

Sogn og Fjordane

is a county in Norway, bordering Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland. The county administration is in the town of Hermansverk in Leikanger municipality while the largest town is Førde....

 in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. Based in Stavanger

Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

 the authority operates five health trusts

Health Trust

Health trust or HF is a health enterprise owned by one of the four regional health authority in Norway, with responsibility for performing a geographic and/or specialist activities of operations on behalf of the regional health authority. There are 43 HFs in Norway, each led by a board of...

 that operate nine hospitals. It is led by chairman Oddvard Nilsen

Oddvard Nilsen

Oddvard Nilsen is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 1993, and was re-elected on two occasions....

 (Conservative

Conservative Party of Norway

The Conservative Party is a Norwegian political party. The current leader is Erna Solberg. The party was since the 1920s consistently the second largest party in Norway, but has been surpassed by the growth of the Progress Party in the late 1990s and 2000s...

) and CEO

Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...

 Herlof Nilssen.

Other central agencies include Helse Vest IKT that operates the information technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 systems. Haukeland University Hospital

Haukeland University Hospital

Haukeland University Hospital is a hospital in Bergen, Norway, and one of the 11 institutions that form the Bergen Hospital Trust. The hospital is the largest in Norway in terms of number of patients, and serves as the local hospital of Bergen, Midthordland and Nordhordland, the central hospital of...

 cooperates with the University of Bergen

University of Bergen

The University of Bergen is located in Bergen, Norway. Although founded as late as 1946, academic activity had taken place at Bergen Museum as far back as 1825. The university today serves more than 14,500 students...

 to provide medical education

Medical education

Medical education is education related to the practice of being a medical practitioner, either the initial training to become a doctor or additional training thereafter ....

 in Bergen.

Subsidiaries

• Stavanger Health Trust
  Stavanger Health Trust
  Stavanger Health Trust mainly administrates Stavanger University Hospital as well as local clinics and institutions around Rogaland. The trust was formed on 1 January 2002 as a result of the national health reforms and is owned by the regional health trust Helse Vest RHF....
  
  
  • Stavanger Hospital
• Bergen Health Trust
  • Haukeland University Hospital
    Haukeland University Hospital
    Haukeland University Hospital is a hospital in Bergen, Norway, and one of the 11 institutions that form the Bergen Hospital Trust. The hospital is the largest in Norway in terms of number of patients, and serves as the local hospital of Bergen, Midthordland and Nordhordland, the central hospital of...
    
    
  • Voss Hospital
  • Sandviken Hospital
• Fonna Health Trust
  Fonna Health Trust
  Fonna Health Trust administrates hospitals and institutions in Haugaland, Sunnhordland and parts of Hardanger. Fonna Health Trust is one of five local health trusts which make up Helse Vest...
  
  
  • Haugesund Hospital
  • Odda Hospital
  • Stord Hospital
  • Valen Hospital
• Førde Health Trust
  Førde Health Trust
  Førde Health Trust administrates hospitals and institutions in Sogn og Fjordane, and is owned by the national Helse Vest.Førde Health Trust was founded in 2002, and took control of the hospitals and psychiatric institutions from the municipality of Sogn og Fjordane as part of the national health...
  
  
  • Førde Hospital
  • Lærdal Hospital
  • Nordfjord Hospital
• Western Norway Pharmaceutical Trust
  Western Norway Pharmaceutical Trust
  Western Norway Pharmaceutical Trust is a health trust owned by Western Norway Regional Health Authority that operates four hospital pharmacies at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Stavanger Hospital, Haugesund Hospital and Førde Hospital. The pharmacies are part of the Ditt Apotek chain and...