Piteå Hospital

Piteå Hospital (Swedish: Piteå sjukhus) is a public hospital in Piteå, Sweden. Operated by Region Norrbotten, it has approximately 90 beds and 900 employees. It has an emergency department, intensive care unit, and other specialised departments.

Founded in 1827 as the first hospital in Norrbotten County, it was rebuilt after the original burned down in 1858. Over the coming decades, Piteå Hospital expanded, with a modern 60-bed facility inaugurated in 1915. In the 1930s, the hospital played an important role in Northern Swedish polio treatment, accepting patients by air ambulance. The hospital had the only ventilator in Norrland until 1935. The hospital gained international attention in 1964 when chief physician Nils Oldby successfully re-attached a farmer's severed hand.

Piteå Hospital has since faced various challenges, including labour disputes, the closure of its maternity ward in 2002, and strain during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was also recognised as the best small hospital in Sweden by Dagens Medicin for 2013.