DRK Children's Clinic Siegen
| DRK Children's Clinic Siegen | |
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| Sponsorship | German Red Cross |
| place | Wins |
| state | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 53 '1 " N , 8 ° 1' 9" E |
| medical director | Gebhard Buchal |
| beds | 144 somatic beds, 14 day hospital beds and 12 fully inpatient ID KJP |
| Employee | 870 |
| areas of expertise | Neonatology with Perinatal Center Level 1
Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine Pediatrics Neuropediatrics Social Pediatrics Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics Pediatric Surgery, Urology and Orthopedics, Pediatric Anesthesia Intensive care unit with residential character for permanently ventilated children and adolescents |
| founding | 06/15/1918 |
| Website | www.drk-kinderklinik.de |
The DRK Children's Clinic Siegen is a specialist clinic of the German Red Cross for child and adolescent medicine and an academic teaching hospital of the University of Marburg . Every year around 6,200 inpatients and over 56,000 outpatients are treated.
history
The DRK children's clinic in Siegen was founded on June 15, 1918 as a day nursery and was converted into an infant home in 1919 . The care of the home was carried out by general practitioners before the state recognition as a "hospital for infants and young children" was awarded in May 1925. Due to a lack of space, a new children's hospital for 38 patients was built from 1932, which was ceremoniously opened on July 4, 1934. The children's hospital was badly damaged in the Second World War , so that the entire clinical operation was relocated to an underground bunker. It was not until 1955 that an extension with three new wards and a total of 110 beds could be built. A second extension followed in 1965 and the third was inaugurated in 1968. For the 50th anniversary of the hospital, the capacity was 163 beds.
On May 1, 1973, the outpatient social pediatric center (SPZ) was opened. From November 1973 to July 1975 further medical areas such as pediatric surgery and urology as well as the anesthesia and intensive care department were opened. Due to the extremely limited space and the scarce land area, further expansion was only possible after the withdrawal of the Belgian troops in the 1990s . After purchasing the site in the immediate vicinity in 2002 and 2003, the most extensive construction project in the history of the DRK children's clinic began in 2003, and the first new buildings and company areas were put into operation in 2005. The official opening ceremony took place on September 16, 2005.
Since 2008, 75 episodes of the RTL docu-soap " Die Kinderärzte " have been filmed in the DRK children's clinic.
After water damage at the end of 2014, a new operating wing with three operating theaters was inaugurated in June 2015. In the meantime, the pediatric surgery team had operated in mobile surgical containers of the Bundeswehr medical service.
In the DRK children's clinic in Siegen, patients are not accommodated according to their clinical picture, but in wards that are divided according to the age of the children and adolescents. Individual illnesses such as oncology, diabetes or psychosomatic medicine are an exception here. Children and adolescents with these diseases are cared for together in one of the other wards.
In addition to the clinic services, training programs for parents and children are offered:
- Asthma training "breath"
- Diabetes education
- Nutritional advice
- Education programs for children with epilepsy
- Headache group for children with migraines and tension headaches from 10 to 16 years of age
- Urotherapy for urinary and fecal incontinence
Since 1938, the clinic has been running a nursing school for children that provides training in health and children's nursing. As a special feature with supraregional relevance, health and pediatric nurses are deployed in home nursing.
Departments
The clinic has the following departments
- Paediatrics
- Pediatric surgery, urology and orthopedics
- Pediatric anesthesia
- Neonatology with Perinatal Center Level 1
- Pediatric intensive medicine
- Child and adolescent psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy
- Neuropaediatrics
- ENT medicine
- Pediatric cardiology
- Children's nursing school
In addition, the pediatrician emergency service of the established pediatricians of the KVWL is located in the premises of the DRK children's clinic in Siegen in the evenings and on weekends. A medical care center offers further specialties:
- Anesthesia & pain therapy
- ENT
- Children's cardiology
- Paediatrics
- Pediatric orthopedics & orthopedics
- radiology
In addition to the medical departments, there are other institutions and organizations that are concerned with improving the quality of life for children and young people in the region:
- Medical advice center against neglect and abuse of children and young people
- Child protection group
- Child Neurology Aid Siegen
- Self-help group for premature babies "Klitzeklein"
- Intensive care unit with residential character for permanently ventilated children and adolescents (Kinderinsel)
Children with a malformation of the lip, jaw, palate, and nose receive medical care in the LKGN competence center at the clinic.
Awards
In 2009 and 2011 the facility received the 'Excellent for Children' seal of approval for the departments of pediatric and adolescent medicine and pediatric surgery; these seals of approval were awarded again for both areas at the end of 2011. In 2013, the implantation of a PNS (Phrenicus Nerve Stimulator) in continuously ventilated children and adolescents (an offer from kinderinsel) as well as the competence center lip, jaw, palate and nose malformations were recognized by TK as part of their publication: Top Medicine for Children in North Rhine-Westphalia.