Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital Rigshospitalet for Children, Teens and Expecting Families, Rigshospitalet 

The Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital is Rigshospitalet’s highlight specialised centre for children, adolescents, expecting families, and women’s health. As part of Rigshospitalet – Copenhagen University Hospital, it delivers advanced, multidisciplinary care across paediatric and adolescent medicine, neonatal care, paediatric surgery, women’s health, reproductive medicine, pregnancy, and childbirth. Through the development of Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital, the centre is creating a new family-centred environment that will bring together treatment, research, and education for children, adolescents, pregnant women, and their families under one roof. 

Guided by its vision to be among the world’s leading women’s and children’s hospitals, the centre is committed to delivering the highest quality diagnosis, treatment, and healthcare. Its strategy is built around excellence in patient care, education, and research, reflecting its guiding principle: “It is the outcome of the patient that counts.” By combining highly specialised clinical expertise with innovation and academic excellence, the Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital-Rigshospitalet is recognised as a leading institution in maternal, neonatal, and paediatric healthcare. 

The centre provides comprehensive specialist services in paediatrics, adolescent medicine, neonatology, paediatric surgery, paediatric anaesthesiology and perioperative care, gynaecology, gynaecological oncology, fertility and reproductive medicine, fetal medicine, pregnancy and childbirth, maternity care, and growth and endocrine disorders. Its research strengths span child and adolescent health, neonatal medicine, paediatric surgery and anaesthesiology, and maternal and fetal medicine.  

Collaboration within ECHO

As a member of ECHO, the Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital-Rigshopitalet contributes expertise in highly specialised paediatric and maternal care, clinical research, innovation, and integrated, family-centred healthcare. The hospital actively participates in PREM-PED to strengthen collaboration and improve care pathways for children across Europe. The hospital supports European collaboration to advance research, share best practices, and improve outcomes for children, adolescents, expecting families, and women across Europe.