University Medical Centre Maribor is a public healthcare institution, founded in 1799, providing secondary and tertiary healthcare service in north-eastern Slovenia. The founder of the University Medical Centre Maribor is Republic of Slovenia. The hospital employs 3663 staff members, almost 700 of whom are medical doctors and more then 2000 associated healthcare professionals, and approx 770 non medical support staff. Annually, about 60,000 patients are treated as inpatients and almost 400,000 as outpatients in different sub-speciality units. UKC Maribor is a holder of ISO 9001 quality certificate. It serves as a teaching and training facility for the Medical Faculty and Faculty of Health Sciences of University of Maribor, and as a postgraduate teaching and training facility for trainees in all medical subspecialties. Its Medical Emergency Unit is a professionally and organizationally homogeneous unit providing non-stop 24-hour medical care to ill and injured people.