Bundeswehr Central Hospital Koblenz
| Bundeswehr Central Hospital Koblenz - BwZKrhs - |
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| Sponsorship | Medical service of the Bundeswehr |
| place | Koblenz |
| state | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 22 '8 " N , 7 ° 32' 35" E |
| Commander and Medical Director | General doctor Almut Nolte |
| Care level | Maximum care |
| beds | 506 |
| Employee | 1485 |
| including doctors | 324 |
| areas of expertise | 19th |
| founding | 2nd July 1957 |
| Website | koblenz.bwkrankenhaus.de |
The Bundeswehr Central Hospital Koblenz ( BwZKrhs ) in Koblenz is the largest specialized hospital in the Bundeswehr . Task founded in 1957 means the medical care of injured or in foreign missions wounded soldiers of the German armed forces, both outpatient and inpatient .
When it was opened to civilian patients in 1970, the central hospital in Koblenz ( ZLaz Koblenz ) was renamed "Bundeswehr Central Hospital Koblenz". Since 1987 it has been the academic teaching hospital of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . The hospital for specialized care has 19 different specialist departments and 13 affiliated outpatient departments and cooperates with the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in the field of cardiovascular surgery, approval for BG procedures and other specializations. It has 506 beds, 125 of which are reserved for civilian patients and employs 1450 people, 260 doctors and pharmacists . Every year around 20,000 inpatients are cared for and 220,000 outpatient treatments are carried out, of which around 65 percent are civilian patients.
A special focus is on the acute care of emergency patients by the rescue center in connection with the central emergency room . The rescue center contributes to the emergency medical care in the greater Koblenz area by operating the Christoph 23 rescue helicopter , its own ambulance , an intensive care vehicle and an ambulance .
history
A first large hospital for wounded soldiers was set up in 1805 by decree of Emperor Napoleon I under the name Hospice spécialement destiné au traitement des blessés et des maladies curables in Koblenz. Today's Kemperhof developed from him . After Koblenz was handed over to Prussia , they built the Royal Prussian garrison hospital in Coblenz in the city. In 1918 it was confiscated and disbanded by the US Army.
After the Second World War, the French army built a military hospital in the years 1952 to 1955 under the name André-Curtillat-Lazaret in Koblenz-Metternich . When the Bundeswehr was founded in 1955, the first German soldiers moved into the Andernach military camp , today's Krahnenberg barracks . On July 2, 1957, the Bundeswehr solemnly took over the hospital from the French and made it into the largest medical facility in the German armed forces.
On October 1, 1970, the name was changed from the central hospital of the armed forces in Bundeswehr Central Hospital Koblenz and the opening for civilian patients. Since April 30, 1987, the Bundeswehr Central Hospital has been an academic teaching hospital of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . On April 23, 1999, the air rescue service , which had existed since January 29, 1973, was taken over by the ADAC . In 2003 the interdisciplinary emergency department was introduced. On February 10, 2006, the Bundeswehr Central Hospital was named the Emergency Medical Center of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate .
In 2016, the hospital was included in the Rhineland-Palatinate state hospital plan with a share of 260 (of a total of 506) beds .
Since the German reunification in 1990, the Bundeswehr has participated in many missions abroad . The soldiers wounded there are flown to Cologne / Bonn Airport with the help of the MedEvac -Airbus , from where they are taken to the Bundeswehr Central Hospital in Koblenz for further medical treatment.
Many politicians and celebrities such as the former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Willy Brandt , the former Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the former SPD leader Rudolf Scharping and some defense ministers were treated in the renowned hospital.
In 2019, several construction projects were completed, a new ambulance station with six parking spaces was built and at the same time the rescue service fleet was rejuvenated, a 160-bed building and an employee car park opened. A new accommodation building and a new auditorium will be completed in 2019 . At the same time, the first measures to build a new emergency and operating theater building have already started.
structure
Departments
The Bundeswehr Central Hospital has the following 19 departments:
Operational departments
- General , visceral and thoracic surgery
- Ophthalmology
- Ear, nose and throat medicine
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery
- Orthopedics and trauma surgery with plastic and reconstructive surgery as well as burn medicine
- urology
- Neurosurgery
- Heart and Vascular Surgery
- Specialist dental center
Medical departments
- Internal medicine , laboratory for cardiovascular and pulmonary function diagnostics
- Dermatology , Venereology and Allergology
- Neurology , psychiatry and psychotherapy
Central departments
- radiology
- Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
- pathology
- Nuclear medicine (with a department in the Kemperhof )
- Laboratory medicine and blood bank
- Nursing service
- Hospital pharmacy
Facilities
The rescue helicopter Christoph 23 is stationed at the Bundeswehr Central Hospital in Koblenz , which has been operated by ADAC since April 8, 1999 as part of a civil-military cooperation and replaced the Bell UH-1D type Bundeswehr helicopter previously used. The machine and the pilot are provided by ADAC Luftrettungs GmbH Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft , while the rescue service personnel, i.e. the emergency doctor and paramedic , continue to be provided by the Bundeswehr. There is an intensive care vehicle (ITW) and an emergency doctor's vehicle (NEF), both of which participate in the public ambulance service in Koblenz. Intensive care patients can be flown in by MedEvac hospital aircraft. All rescue equipment is grouped under the umbrella term Koblenz Rescue Center .
The hospital has its own pharmacy , laundry and central sterilization. The BwZKrhs also has an automatic goods transport system for hospital supplies. Supply goods (consumables, medication, clean laundry and sterile goods) and disposal goods (waste, dirty laundry) are transported. The supply of food to the patients is also handled via this system. The hospital also has a library and a facility for military chaplaincy .
Chief Physicians or Commanders and Medical Directors
| No. | Surname | Beginning of the appointment | End of appointment |
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| 1 | General doctor Norbert Breidenbach | since installation | September 1966 |
| 2 | General doctor Helmut Dittler | October 1966 | September 1971 |
| 3 | General doctor Leo Nonn | October 1971 | March 1975 |
| 4th | General doctor Kurt Felkl | April 1975 | March 1979 |
| 5 | General doctor Franz Xaver Gärtner | April 1979 | March 1982 |
| 6th | Admiral physician Friedrich-Albert Richarz | April 1982 | March 1984 |
| 7th | Admiral doctor Ernst Müller-Troschel | April 1984 | March 1989 |
| 8th | Admiral doctor Klaus-Theodor Fliedner | April 1989 | March 1993 |
| 9 | General doctor Björn Mirow | April 1993 | September 1998 |
| 10 | General doctor Herbert Frößler | October 1998 | October 2001 |
| 11 | General doctor Verena von Weymarn | November 2001 | July 2004 |
| 12 | General doctor Christoph Veit | August 2004 | August 2008 |
| 13 | General doctor Georg Mager | August 2008 | November 2010 |
| 14th | General doctor Torsten Sohns | November 2010 | April 2012 |
| 15th | General doctor Michael Zallet | April 2012 | August 1, 2015 |
| 16 | General doctor Jürgen Brandenstein | August 1, 2015 | 23 October 2017 |
| 17th | General doctor Norbert Weller | 23 October 2017 | September 6, 2018 |
| 18th | General doctor Almut Nolte | September 6, 2018 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bundeswehr medical service: last chief physician's meeting. In: sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de. Press and Information Center of the Medical Service, September 11, 2017, accessed on October 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Bundeswehr Central Hospital ( Memento of October 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Main-Rheiner, May 22, 2007.
- ^ Koblenz: The hospital - the new competition? , accessed January 15, 2018.
- ^ Robert Leicht: Conceptual contradictions . In: Die Zeit , No. 39, September 23, 1988.
- ↑ New rescue station for the Bundeswehr central hospital . In: https://www.sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de . PIZ Central Medical Service of the Bundeswehr, June 25, 2019, accessed on June 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Handover of leadership in the Bundeswehr Central Hospital . Bundeswehr medical service, April 27, 2012, accessed on May 3, 2012 .
- ↑ "What is normal?" - Change at the helm of the Bundeswehr central hospital. October 24, 2017. Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Koblenz "Lazarett" with new management. In: http://www.sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de . PIZ ZSan, September 6, 2018, accessed on September 23, 2018 .
