Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin is Berlin’s university medicine institution, combining a Medical Faculty and a University Hospital, with the Berlin Institute of Health as a third pillar since 2021. Its legal notice describes it as a corporation under public law and a corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, overseen by the Berlin Senate department for science and health. Its history page traces it to a plague quarantine facility set up in 1710; the present institution was formed by a merger in 2003. Heyo K. Kroemer chairs its Board of Directors.
Charité operates four campuses and 17 CharitéCenters with more than 100 departments and institutes. Its factsheet, last updated on 31 December 2025, lists 10,199 students across 21 degree programmes, 344 professors, 25,256 employees across the Charité group and 3,293 beds.