The hospital buildings are situated on Tage-Hansens Gade in the neighbourhood of Vesterbro in the inner city of Aarhus.

Aarhus County Hospital was established in 1882 on Kroghsgade which at the time was a part of Viby Municipality.

The new hospital quickly experienced insufficient space in spite of a series of large expansions.

[2] Aarhus Municipality turned out to be interested in the existing hospital complex and offered 500,000 Danish kroner for it along with a large parcel of land between Silkeborgvej and Viborgvej.

The county hospital complex was bought by Aarhus Municipality and will be redeveloped into a new residential neighborhood from 2019.

[3] The County Hospital was designed by the architect Axel Høeg-Hansen in a Neoclassical style with some elements of Functionalism.

Today most treatment is done on an outpatient basis but when the hospital was built most patients were admitted for a period of time.