With almost 300 years of existence, University Hospital Charite Berlin is the largest university clinic in Berlin. Frederick I, the King of Prussia, founded it in 1710, and it had four campuses in Berlin.

With over 100 clinics and institutions, Charite University Clinic is organized into 17 departments. The hospital employs 20,900 people in total, representing 119 different countries. Furthermore, University Hospital Charite Berlin treats more patients than any other university hospital in Germany, with 123,793 full and partial inpatient admissions and 682,731 outpatients annually. In addition, in 2015 Hospital Charite Berlin was certified as the first medical faculty in Germany for both study and teaching. Currently, it trains 9,030 students for careers in medicine.

As per the European Research Council (ERC), the University Hospital Charite Berlin is renowned for its scientific and clinical research. According to national and worldwide scientific rankings, the hospital leads the field in neurology, immunology, cancer, cardiology, and genetic research. The majority of Germans who have won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, such as Hans Spemann, Paul Ehrlich, Emil Adolf von Behring, Robert Koch, Hermann Emil Fischer, and others, are from Charite. Additionally, The Charite Hospital collaborates with academic institutions across the globe, including Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (USA), Saitama Medical School (Japan), and Tongji Medical College Wuhan (China).

At the University Clinic Charite Berlin, patients get expert medical care from board-certified physicians in a range of specialties, including neurosurgery and dentistry. Furthermore, doctors at Charite Hospital concentrate on treating patients with nephrological, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, and malignant conditions. The hospital also practices reconstructive and traumatological medicine. Professional care is also provided to women and their offspring at the Charite Perinatal Center. Furthermore, the main specializations of the University Hospital Charite Berlin include ophthalmology and otolaryngology. Every speciality in the hospital has access to state-of-the-art equipment, such as proton therapy for eye cancers.