St. Joseph Hospital is the largest catholic hospital in Berlin. In addition to the focus on obstetrics, paediatrics and youth medicine, the hospital has the largest non-university nephrology department in Germany. The hospital also specialises in interdisciplinary tumor therapies, spinal and visceral surgery, orthopaedics, gastroenterology, geriatrics, geriatric traumatology and palliative medicine. The St. Joseph Hospital is an academic teaching hospital of Charité.