[3][5] Compared to other hospitals in Europe, Kaunas clinics is distinguished in the fields of vascular surgery, neurosurgery and otorhinolaryngology.

[6][7][8] During the interwar period, Lithuanian politicians and medical experts perceived a need for a major hospital complex in the area, and gathered to discuss the possibility on February 5, 1936.

Urbain Cassan met with physicians to gather feedback and hear specific requests and proposals for the arrangement of rooms.

[9] The building commission acted in coordination to review the designs and sketches, which resulted in redesigns of, and improvements to, several aspects of the initial proposal.

In 1967 a medical research and laboratory complex was built, followed in 1972 by an obstetrical and gynaecology center, and a few years an eye-care clinic was added.

[11] The University Hospital complex consisted in 2008 of 15 buildings where approximately two thousand patients could be treated simultaneously.