Western Norway Regional Health Authority
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Type | State owned |
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Industry | Healthcare |
Founded | January 1, 2002 |
Headquarters | Stavanger, Norway |
Area served | Vestland Rogaland |
Key people | (CEO) Oddvard Nilsen (Chairman) |
Revenue | ![]() |
NOK +707 million (2016) | |
Number of employees | 25,578 (2018) |
Parent | Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services |
Website | www.helse-vest.no |
Western Norway Regional Health Authority (Norwegian: Helse Vest RHF) is a state-owned regional health authority responsible for operating the hospitals in the counties of Rogaland and Vestland in Norway. Based in Stavanger the authority operates five health trusts that operate nine hospitals. It is led by chairman Oddvard Nilsen (Conservative) and CEO .
Other central agencies include Helse Vest IKT that operates the information technology systems. Haukeland University Hospital cooperates with the University of Bergen to provide medical education in Bergen.
Subsidiaries[]
- Stavanger Health Trust
- Bergen Health Trust
- Fonna Health Trust
- Førde Health Trust
- Western Norway Pharmaceutical Trust
Categories:
- Government agencies of Norway
- Health trusts of Norway
- Companies based in Stavanger
- Norwegian companies established in 2002
- Health care companies established in 2002