Cardiocentro Ticino, managed by a private foundation fully integrated into the Ticino Canton health care service, is a state-of-the art university clinic, highly specialised in Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Cardiac anaesthesia. This acute care hospital offers top-level health care services, as well as an efficient Day Hospital service. With a keen educational and research-oriented vocation, Cardiocentro Ticino has officially become, since February 2012, an institute associated with the University of Zurich (UZH) – as a consequence, it currently entertains significant medical and scientific relations with the University of Zurich as well as other research and academic institutes, both at a national and international level.