The Ygeia Hospital was founded in 1970 by a group of Greek doctors, with the aim of creating a model for the country of a private hospital.

[1] It is the first large private nursing institution that operated in Greece and is one of the largest private hospital units in the country.

[citation needed] In this hospital, Greece performed their first heart transplant and their first treated case of AIDS.

[citation needed] They were the first in Europe radioactive granules were implanted in prostate cancer.

In May 1989, the hospital successfully separated conjoined twins.