Professional visits provide a great opportunity to explore some of Helsinki’s renowned education, hospitals, and healthcare facilities. Professional visits are available to ICN 2025 Congress participants for an additional fee of EUR 60.00 per visit.
Most of the venues for professional visits are easily accessible by public transport. For the sites that are not, organized transport will be available.
Website Address: Haartmaninkatu 4, Helsinki Distance from Messukeskus: 3 km
• Welcome to Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cancer Unit S4A and S4B. These two wards are both located on the 4th floor. S4A is focused on soft tissue sarcoma, neuroendocrine, prostate and head and neck cancers. Treatments include chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and chemoradiotherapy as well as radioisotope treatments. We provide support for treatment-related infections, pain, and side effects, and we also have hospice patients in our unit. In the cancer unit S4B, we specifically treat people with lymphoma, sarcoma, and testicular cancer. We provide chemotherapy and antibody treatments and treat infections, pain, and anemia, among other things. We also perform autologous stem cell transplants. Some patients come for examinations and treatment planning.
• Max number of participants: 15 • Minimum number of participants: 10 • How many groups: One group • Language of the visit: English • Visit starts: at 10.00 • Visit ends: at 12.00
Website Address: Ruukkukuja 7, 01600 Vantaa Distance from Messukeskus: 10 km
• Description: Myyrmäki Centre for the Elderly provides housing services for a total of 199 clients. The residents are persons over 65 years of age. Myyrmäki Centre is home to clients who, due to memory problems or other disabilities, are unable to manage in their own homes. In 24-hour service housing, clients need regular, continuous assistance and supervision. Community housing also offers night-time services based on individual needs.
• Max number of participants: 20 • Language of the visit: English • Minimum number of participants: 10 • Visit starts: at 10.00 • Visit ends: at 11.15
Website Address: Ratatie 22, 01300 Vantaa Distance from Messukeskus: 13.5 km Train: From Pasila to Tikkurila
• Description: University of Applied Sciences. Whole group starts together and then the group will be divided into five groups: Simulation workshop, Multisense space, Elderly care, Digitalisation in Health.
• Max number of participants: 100 • Groups: Five groups, 20 participants each. • Minimum number of participants: 10 • Language of the visit: English • Visit starts: at 10.00 • Visit ends: at 13.00
Website Address: Myllypurontie 1, 00920 Helsinki Distance from Messukeskus: 10 km
• Max number of participants: 100 • Minimum number of participants: 20 • Language of the visit: English • Visit starts: at 10.00 • Visit ends: at 13.00
Website Address: Karvasmäentie 8, 02740 Espoo Distance from Messukeskus: 16 km
• The emergency ward of Espoo provides primary healthcare hospital services and is located on the Jorvi Hospital campus. Patients are primarily admitted to the ward through the Jorvi Hospital emergency department at all hours of the day. The ward specializes in acute geriatrics, with a focus on multidisciplinary collaboration, where nurses, doctors, and physiotherapists work together following a rehabilitative approach.
• Max number of participants: 10 • Language of the visit: English • Minimum number of participants: 3 • Visit starts: at 10.00 • Visit ends: at 11.30
Website Address: Karvasmäentie 6, 02740 Espoo Distance from Messukeskus: 16 km
• The Palliative Care and Home Hospital Center’s home hospitals cover the entire welfare area. Offices are located in Espoo, Kirkkonummi, Lohja, and Raasepori. Palliative Care Center has 2 palliative inpatient wards in Espoo Hospital (Villa Glims and Villa Bell) with 15 beds in each ward. The home hospital provides care for patients with infections and palliative and hospice care. The Western County Wellbeing Service’s palliative care center provides specialized care in outpatient clinics, home hospitals, and inpatient wards, as well as consultation support in Jorvi Hospital and other units.
• Max number of participants: 10 • Language of the visit: English • Minimum number of participants: 3 • Visit starts: at 10.00 • Visit ends: at 11.30
Website Address: Stenbäckinkatu 9, 00290 Helsinki Distance from Messukeskus: 3 km Transport: Bus 20 or 30 from Kamppi or Tram 4
• Welcome to our New Children's Hospital. In our hospital we take care of children and adolescents from all over Finland. Care including all different specialities; all children in the Helsinki region in need of specialist medical care, all pediatric diseases, including diseases for which medical expertise is not available elsewhere in Finland, e.g. rare congenital diseases and the most demanding pediatric diseases in Finland, such as those involving cardiac surgery and organ transplants. We will tell you about one of our inpatient ward for children and about our outpatient clinic.
• Max number of participants: 15 • Language of the visit: English • Visit starts: at 10.00 • Visit ends: at 12.00
Website Address: Stenbäckinkatu 9, 00290 Helsinki Distance from Messukeskus: 3 km
• In our hospital we take care of children and adolescents from all over Finland. Care including all different specialities; all children in the Helsinki region in need of specialist medical care, all pediatric diseases, including diseases for which medical expertise is not available elsewhere in Finland, e.g. rare congenital diseases and the most demanding pediatric diseases in Finland, such as those involving cardiac surgery and organ transplants. We will tell you about our outpatient clinic and also about our Play and Activity Unit.
• Max number of participants: 15 • Languages: English, German • Visit starts: at 10.00 • Visit ends: at 12.00
Website Address: Haartmaninkatu 2, 00290 Helsinki Distance from Messukeskus: 3 km
• The Women's Hospital the largest maternity hospital in HUS area, and also in Finland. The hospital is focused on the demanding specialist medical care of women and newborns. At Women's Hospital, we treat the most high-risk pregnancies and extremely preterm births in the HUS area. In 2023, there were 7,880 deliveries at the Women’s Hospital (15,285 across the entire HUS area)
• Max number of participants: 15 • Minimum number of participants: 10 • Language of the visit: English • Visit starts: at 10.00 • Visit ends: at 11.30
Website Address: Työpajankatu 14 A, 00580 Helsinki Distance from Messukeskus: 3.5 km
• Kalasatama Health and Wellbeing Center is a modern healthcare and wellbeing facility in Helsinki, offering a wide range of services to all clients. Opened in 2018, the center is known for its innovative digital services and multidisciplinary collaboration.
• Max number of participants: 45 • Minimum number of participants: 15 • Language of the visit: English • Visit starts: at 10.00 • Visit ends: at 12.00
Website Address: Lääkärinkatu 8, 00250 Helsinki Distance from Messukeskus: 2 km
• Laakso Hospital is one of the City of Helsinki hospitals with 300 inpatient care beds. Laakso Hospital has several geriatric wards, an infectious diseases ward, a wound care ward, two neurological wards for those recovering from cerebrovascular disorders, a trauma ward for those recovering from multiple fractures and an orthopaedic ward where we tend to those recovering from hip fractures. We will also explore the new Laakso Hospital that is under construction. The Laakso Joint Hospital is a construction project. We are building functioning facilities for the treatment of psychiatric and somatic diseases in Laakso Hospital area for over 900 inpatient care beds.
• Max number of participants: 30 • Minimum number of participants: 10 • Languages: English, Spanish • Visit starts: at 10.00 • Visit ends: at 12.30
Website Address: Nordenskiöldinkatu 20, 00250 Helsinki Distance from Messukeskus: 2 km
• Luoto is a substance abuse rehabilitation facility with the capacity of around 30 customers all together. We offer round-the-clock rehabilitation in three different communities. There is one for women, one for men and one for all genders. Our six week rehabilitation program is based on a recovery-oriented frame, community and peer support. Our professionals consist of social- and healthcare workers, an occupational therapist and a psychologist.
• Max number of participants: 15 • Language of the visit: English • Visit starts: at 10.00 • Visit ends: at 12.00
Website Address: Jan-Magnus Janssonin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki Distance from Messukeskus: 2 km
• Arcada is a multidisciplinary university of applied sciences. At our international campus in Helsinki, our 2,700 students and 170 employees work at the forefront of change and development. We conduct research relevant to society and provide lifelong learning in business and IT, energy and materials technology, health and welfare, culture and media, and healthcare. Arcada provides nursing education in both Swedish and English. The nursing programme at Arcada is the best in the country in a comparison between Finnish universities of applied sciences.
• Max number of participants: 20 (English, two groups) + 10 (Swedish) • Minimum number of participants: 4 English speaking + 4 Swedish speaking • Language of the visit: English and Swedish • Visit starts: at 09.00 • Visit ends: at 11.30
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