Agaplesion Bethesda Hospital Wuppertal
| Agaplesion Bethesda Hospital Wuppertal | |
|---|---|
| place | Wuppertal |
| state | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 16 '5 " N , 7 ° 7' 51" E |
| management | Georg Schmidt |
| Employee | 800 |
| areas of expertise | 12 |
| Affiliation | Agaplesion gAG |
| founding | 1886 |
| Website | www.bethesda-wuppertal.de |
The Agaplesion Bethesda Hospital Wuppertal until 2010 under the name Bethesda Hospital Wuppertal known, a hospital in the west of Wuppertal . The house is the academic teaching hospital of the RWTH Aachen University Clinic and maintains nine specialist clinics, including a neurological and neurosurgical department and a department for interventional vascular medicine. The house has a total of 358 beds, around 800 employees and treats over 40,000 outpatients and inpatients each year.
history
The origin of the house is the "Bethesda Association for General Nursing in Elberfeld" founded in 1886. In 1929, the "Bethesda Diakonissenanstalt", planned for 250 patients and 150 sisters, was created. The Hebrew name Bethesda refers to a cistern in Jerusalem and is derived from the Aramaic beth hasada, "house of grace", according to other sources the name is based on "Vedes da" = "he gives revival or recovery".
Since 2006, the hospital has been part of the nationwide Agaplesion gAG based in Frankfurt am Main with a total of over 100 facilities, including 23 hospital locations and 35 residential and care facilities, and more than 19,000 employees. In 2010 the name was changed to AGAPLESION BETHESDA KRANKENHAUS WUPPERTAL gGmbH.
Company structure
The full name of the company is Agaplesion Bethesda Krankenhaus Wuppertal gGmbH . The company includes two senior centers; one in the immediate vicinity of the hospital with 140 care and residential facilities and another in Unna with 80 care places. In addition, the Agaplesion Klinik Service Betriebe Wuppertal GmbH are affiliated and provide the hospital with staff for various service areas. The management is also supported by the management , which, as a management and advisory body, controls the "observance of performance, efficiency and economy" within the framework of the rules of procedure and the welfare of the patients. Furthermore, the hospital maintains the Diakonisches Bildungszentrum Bergisch Land , DBZ for short, in several educational institutions in Remscheid to "promote education and advice in professions and health and social care institutions".
management
The management of the Agaplesion Bethesda Hospital Wuppertal consists of:
- Georg Schmidt (Managing Director)
- Dirk Larisch (Head of Service Center Administration)
- Bernd Sanner (Medical Director / Chief Physician of the Medical Clinic)
- Ulrich Leyer (Deputy Medical Director / Chief Physician of the Clinic for Trauma Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery and Hand Surgery)
- Pastor Jürgen Woithe (Leading Pastor / Head of the Star Children’s Clinic)
- Andreas Fischer (Head of Nursing Service)
- Jörg Fritsch (Head of Service Center Technology)
Quality management
To ensure quality from a humanitarian and economic point of view, the hospital has introduced a system that corresponds to the value system of a typical company. For processes such as prevention , diagnosis , care, therapy and aftercare, one orientates oneself on the requirements of the corresponding professional associations. The orientation is based on the criteria of cooperation for transparency and quality in health care , KTQ for short, and the internationally recognized standard DIN EN ISO 9001 . Various areas of the hospital have already been certified to optimize quality management, and more are to follow.
Competence centers
The Agaplasion Bethesda Hospital Wuppertal runs twelve of its own competence centers and clinics:
- Clinic for general , visceral and vascular surgery
- Clinic for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
- Medical clinic with cardiology , pulmonology and sleep medicine
- Clinic for Angiology and Interventional Vascular Medicine
- Clinic for Trauma Surgery , Orthopedic Surgery and Hand Surgery
- Department of Neurology
- Neurosurgery Clinic
- Department of Radiology and Neuroradiology
- Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics
- Obstetrics
- maintenance
- physical therapy
- Breast center
- Endoprosthetics Center
- Cardiological Center Elberfeld
- Regional trauma center
- Center for Minimally Invasive and Outpatient Gynecology (ZAG)
Cooperations
The Agaplesion Bethesda Hospital Wuppertal cooperates with various institutions and organizations. A selection of these are:
- the Bergische Competence Center for Health Management and Public Health , BKG for short, at the Bergische University
- the GHD GesundHeits GmbH Germany in Dortmund
- the Diakonie Wuppertal
- the Methodist Church in Frankfurt am Main .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Company description on bethesda-wuppertal.de, called on August 20, 2012
- ↑ Bethesda in the region on bethesda-wuppertal.de, accessed on August 20, 2012
- ↑ Quality management on bethesda-wuppertal.de, accessed on August 20, 2012
- ↑ Cooperations & Partners on bethesda-wuppertal.de, accessed on August 20, 2012