Aker Hospital was founded as a municipal hospital in the municipality of
Aker in 1895. Aker municipality was merged with
Oslo in 1948; in the same year Aker Hospital became a university hospital affiliated with the
University of Oslo. The hospital was owned by the Oslo city government from 1948 to 2002, when it was transferred to the national government along with
Ullevål Hospital. Since January 2002, the hospital was organized as a government-owned
health trust and the hospital was renamed Aker University Hospital to reflect its status as a university hospital. The hospital was responsible for providing health care to 170,000 people residing in the northern part of Oslo as well as the municipalities of
Ski,
Oppegård,
Nesodden,
Frogn,
Ås and
Vestby. It also served as a regional hospital for Norway's Health Region East, which includes
Oslo,
Hedmark,
Oppland,
Akershus and
Østfold counties with a total population of 1.6 million. ==References==