District Hospital (Austria)

In Austria, a district hospital is a public-law hospitals that is run by a community association consisting of the respective communities of a political district . The abbreviation commonly used is "BKH".

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The sponsor of these hospitals is not the district administration , but a specially founded community association to which all communities in a district belong. The municipalities are represented in the association by the respective mayor, chairman of the association is one of them. Due to the takeover of district hospitals in regional companies, there are only five district hospitals in Tyrol, of which 50% belongs to the state.

List of district hospitals

Tyrol

District Hospital St. Johann in Tirol , community association of the 20 communities in the Kitzbühel district
District hospital Lienz , communities in East Tyrol
District hospital Schwaz, 50% Tilak company , 50% municipalities in the Schwaz district
District Hospital Kufstein, 30 communities in the Kufstein District
District hospital Reutte Ehenbichl, community association of Reutte

Lower Austria

The Mistelbach State Hospital was a district hospital in the 1909 monarchy . This hospital association was dissolved during the Second World War . From 1928 to 2004 the Lilienfeld hospital belonged to a community association of the district , and from 1974 the Mistelbach hospital to an association of communities in the Mistelbach district . They didn't have the name, but they had the character of district hospitals. In 2005 they were taken over as regional clinics in the specially founded Niederösterreichische Landeskliniken-Holding .

In the time after the connection in the administration of Greater Vienna, the state clinic Mödling also carried the name until after the state treaty in 1956, when it passed into Lower Austrian state ownership.