Vivantes Auguste Viktoria Clinic
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| Sponsorship | Vivantes |
| place | Berlin , Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 27 '45 " N , 13 ° 20' 47" E |
| Care level | Emergency hospital |
| beds | 562 |
| founding | 1906 |
| Website | www.vivantes.de/avk/ |
The Vivantes Auguste-Viktoria-Klinikum is located in the Berlin district of Schöneberg at Rubensstrasse 125. The area includes the area up to the corner of Grazer Damm and Thorwaldsenstrasse . It is an academic teaching hospital of the Charité .
history
It was built between 1903 and 1906 as a municipal hospital in the town of Schöneberg, which was independent until 1920, by the architect and town planner Paul Egeling . It was named Auguste Viktoria Hospital after Auguste Viktoria , the last German Empress and Queen of Prussia . In the entrance area of the main house there is a marble statue of Karl Begas' namesake from 1911.
The first chief physician in the surgical department was Walther Kausch , who performed the world's first duodenopancreatectomy here in 1909 , also known as the Whipple-OP or, more correctly, called the Kausch-Whipple-OP. Otto Nordmann was at the AVK from 1909 to 1933. Richard Maatz and Gert Specht were chiefs of surgery, Specht from 1972 to 1976 also medical director .
Today the hospital is operated by the city hospital group Vivantes .
Facility
The Auguste Viktoria Hospital has around 510 beds for full inpatient treatment, around 90 percent of which are occupied. There are also around 35 places in geriatric , psychiatric and immunological day clinics. On average, over 19,000 patients are treated in acute medicine every year. The clinics for surgery , urology , orthopedics and gynecology and obstetrics perform a total of 9,000 to 10,000 operations annually, plus another 200 outpatient procedures.
Every year around 20,000 patients seek first aid . In addition, over 1200 children are born in this house every year. The workforce includes over 1,600 employees. The largest group consists of around 800 nurses. 195 people are employed in the medical service. 190 employees work in the Institute for Radiology and other medical-technical services, and another 157 in other functional areas. The remaining positions are spread across work areas such as administration, technology, business and supply. The clinic is the teaching hospital of the Charité .
