Vestfold Hospital Trust

Vestfold Hospital Trust
Tønsberg Hospital, 2015
Geography
Location	Vestfold, Norway
Coordinates	59°16′21″N 10°25′06″E / 59.27250°N 10.41833°E / 59.27250; 10.41833
Organisation
Network	Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority
History
Former name(s)	Jarlsberg and Larvik County Hospital Vestfold County Hospital Vestfold Central Hospital
Opened	1870 (as a hospital proper) 2002 (as a health trust)
Links
Website	www.siv.no
Lists	Hospitals in Norway

Vestfold Hospital Trust (Norwegian: Sykehuset i Vestfold HF) is a public health trust which serves Vestfold, Norway. Its main facility is Tønsberg Hospital, which supplements divisions in Larvik and Stavern. As of 2019, the hospital had 5,400 employees. The hospital was founded in 1870. It was merged with Horten Hospital, originally the Navy Hospital, established in 1828, in 1998, and merged with Sandefjord Hospital and Larvik Hospital in 2000, and with the Psychiatry of Vestfold Trust in 2012. It is owned by the Norwegian state through Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority.

The hospital was established as Jarlsberg and Larvik County Hospital (Jarlsberg og Larvik amts sygehus). It was renamed Vestfold County Hospital (Vestfold fylkessykehus) in 1918 and was significantly extended during Nikolai Nissen Paus' tenure as director (1918–1947). It was later renamed Vestfold Central Hospital (Vestfold sentralsykehus) and to the current Vestfold Hospital (Sykehuset i Vestfold) in 2002.