Bethanien Hospital (Frankfurt am Main)

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Bethanien Hospital (Frankfurt am Main)
Sponsorship Agaplesion Frankfurter Diakonie Kliniken
place Frankfurt am Main
state Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 7 '45 "  N , 8 ° 42' 23"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '45 "  N , 8 ° 42' 23"  E
management Michael Keller (Management Spokesman)
Jürgen Schäfer (Managing Director)
beds 245
Affiliation Agaplesion gAG
founding 1908
Website bethanien-krankenhaus.de
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The Bethanien Hospital

The Bethanien Hospital ( spelling Agaplesion Bethanien Hospital ) is a Protestant hospital in Frankfurt am Main . The hospital is located in the Bornheim district , on the border with the Nordend district . The comprehensive streets are the street Im Prüfling and the Usinger street . Together with the Markus Hospital , it forms the Agaplesion Frankfurter Diakonie Kliniken and has been part of the Christian Agaplesion group since 2009 .

history

In 1908 the Bethanien-Verein für Allgemeine Krankenpflege eV, founded in 1874, opened . V. the Bethanien Hospital in Bornheim - at that time still under the name Diakonissen- und Krankenheilanstalt Bethanien  - as a pure hospital with a total of over 70 sick beds and two operating theaters. The then very modern three-story neo-baroque building with wing extensions was designed by the architect Friedrich Sander. In addition to the hospital and the deaconess house, the new building complex on the approximately 8,400 square meter property also included an outbuilding in which a laundry room, an ironing room, drying rooms, a disinfection room, an isolation room for highly contagious diseases and a morgue were housed.

In 1913, the Bethanien Hospital was primarily known beyond the city limits for its x-ray department, which was still very rare at the time, and for the nursing school recognized and licensed by the Prussian state in 1909 . During the First World War, hospital service became the focus of nursing, and the hospital garden was turned into a vegetable and fruit garden due to food shortages. On December 15, 1918, the hospital was closed. Up until then, 2533 wounded and sick soldiers had been cared for in the Bethanien Hospital.

The inflation period from 1920 to 1923 brought the Bethanien Hospital into financial worries. Due to the very low salary of the deaconesses and with the help of donations from the population and aid payments from the Methodist Church in the USA, the hospital was just able to stay afloat. During the high phase of the Weimar Republic from 1925 to 1929, the Bethanien Hospital was able to stabilize again due to constant full occupancy. The number of patients treated increased from 1,791 to 2,526 patients per year between 1924 and 1930. This led to the opening of another location of the Bethanien Hospital in Sachsenhausen on the Mühlberg there in 1938. During the Nazi era , the previous successful collaboration with the mostly Jewish attending physicians was abruptly terminated, as they did not work due to the National Socialist persecution of Jews were allowed to do more than before ( professional ban ). On August 26, 1939, the Bethanien Hospital was again declared a military hospital. During several air raids in 1943 and 1944 , the hospital suffered relatively little damage to windows, doors and the roof structure compared to other buildings. Happy coincidences, but also an extinguishing water pond specially created for fire fighting on the test item area contributed to this. Contrary to the official eviction order of March 17, 1945, the management decided to keep the hospital open. 10 days later the war in Frankfurt ended with the occupation of the city by American troops .

In the 1970s, the hospital was threatened with closure at times. In 1998 the four evangelical hospitals in Frankfurt, Markus Hospital, Diakonissenkrankenhaus, Bethanien Hospital and its branch Mühlberg Hospital, merged under a joint sponsoring company. In 2004, the Mühlberg Hospital branch was closed. In 2010 the name of the supporting company was changed to Agaplesion Frankfurter Diakonie Kliniken non-profit GmbH . This is intended to give expression to the affiliation to the nationwide Agaplesion Group, to which the Markus and Bethanien hospitals have belonged since 2002.

Range of services

The Bethanien Hospital has 245 beds and, together with various specialists, looks after patients in the fields of cardiology , diabetology , oncology , general and visceral surgery , gastroenterology and proctology . Patients from the specialist departments of angiology , vascular surgery , ear, nose and throat medicine , hand surgery , plastic surgery , trauma surgery , orthopedic surgery and spinal surgery are also treated there.

With the Agaplesion Education Center for Nursing Professions Rhein-Main, the hospital offers full-time or part-time training as a health care professional . In cooperation with educational institutions in the Rhine-Main area, it also offers training to become an anesthetist or surgical assistant . The Bethanien Hospital is an academic teaching hospital of the University of Pécs in Hungary. There is also a cooperation agreement for student exchanges with the University of Murcia in Spain.

Shareholder

The shareholders of the Agaplesion Frankfurter Diakonie Kliniken non-profit GmbH are:

  • Agaplesion non-profit corporation
  • Diakoniewerk Bethanien e. V.
  • Evangelical Regional Association Frankfurt am Main
  • Frankfurt Deaconess House
  • Markus Foundation

The chairman of the shareholders' meeting is Lothar Elsner. The company is represented by the managing directors Michael Keller and Jürgen Schäfer.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bauer, Thomas; Nördinger, Marc: The sister's work: the history of the Bethanien Hospital in Frankfurt am Main from 1908–2008 . Ed .: Frankfurter Diakonie-Kliniken gGmbH. Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-026816-8 , pp. 38-39 .
  2. ↑ Bethanien-Verein (Ed.): Annual Report 1913 . S. 8 .
  3. ^ Bauer, Thomas; Nördinger, Marc: The sister's work: The history of the Bethanien Hospital in Frankfurt am Main from 1908 to 2008 . Ed .: Frankfurter Diakonie-Kliniken gGmbH. 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-026816-8 , pp. 65-66 .
  4. ↑ Bethanien-Verein (ed.): Annual report 1917/1918 . S. 8 .
  5. ^ Rücker, August, Sommer, Johann Wilhelm Ernst, Vorr. (Ed.): In the service of love and mercy 1874-1949 seventy-five years of deaconess service of the Bethanien Association, Diakonissen-Anstalt Bethanien . Anker-Verl, 1949, OCLC 933613370 .
  6. ↑ Bethanien-Verein (ed.): Annual reports 1924 and 1930 .
  7. ↑ Bethanien Hospital Frankfurt | Companies. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
  8. ^ Bauer, Thomas, 1961-: In good hands: from the Bockenheimer Diakonissenverein to the Frankfurt Markus Hospital 1876-2001 . Waldemar Kramer, 2001, ISBN 3-7829-0516-4 .
  9. ↑ Bernard Ochs: How historical is the Bornheim rose garden? In: Bernemer Halblange . No. 3 , 2006.
  10. ↑ AGaplesion training center for nursing professions Rhein-Main | Begin. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Bethanien Hospital Frankfurt | Cooperations & partners. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .