DRK pain center Mainz
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| Sponsorship | DRK Trägergesellschaft Süd-West mbH |
| place | Mainz |
| state | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 59 ′ 32 " N , 8 ° 16 ′ 52" E |
| business director | Matthias Diehl |
| beds | 80 |
| Employee | about 150 |
| founding | Scientific collaboration |
| Website | www.drk-schmerz-zentrum.de |
The DRK Pain Center Mainz is a special clinic for the clarification and treatment of acute and chronic pain in Mainz . With 80 inpatient beds, 24 semi-inpatient places and an outpatient department with 5,000 patient presentations per year, it is one of the largest pain clinics in Europe.
history
Alice, Princess of Hesse and the Rhine , encouraged by her compatriot Florence Nightingale , wanted to raise the rank of secular nurses . After their knowledge of nursing, they trained the Alice sisters under the sign of the Red Cross . After it was founded in Darmstadt , the wife of the Mayor of Mainz, Franz Schott, was entrusted with the founding of the Mainz Alice Association and was the first woman president.
In 1897 the contract between the Alice Sisterhood and the District Association of the Red Cross on cooperation in the event of war was concluded. In addition, it was decided to build an "Alice Home" together with a hospital. The planned accommodation was available to them in times of peace under self-administration, in times of war they had to make it available as a hospital to care for the injured .
In 1907 the Alice Hospital, including accommodation for the sisters, was opened in the Upper Town of Mainz . Two years later, the Sisterhood with its hospital belonging to the German Red Cross became a member of the Association of German Nursing Agencies of the Red Cross. The hospital's first chief physician, Julius Darapsky, ran the facility for around a quarter of a century. He anticipated the knowledge of psychosomatic medicine and tried to heal not only with medication, but also taking into account “psychological influences”. Theodor Müller succeeded him in 1932 at the helm of twelve attending doctors at the Alice Hospital.
In 1944 the hospital was partially destroyed in an air raid. In 1945, shortly before its reopening, both the adjoining buildings and the hospital were so badly destroyed that only the basement could be used as emergency accommodation for the sisters. Both times, Theodor Müller initiated the reconstruction and later also the expansion of the facility. In 1952 the new Alice Hospital was rebuilt as a modern hospital with 100 beds, two operating theaters , a delivery room , X-ray system and other medical facilities. 29 years later, the Alice sisters had to give up what was then the affiliated hospital due to the general rise in cost pressure in the healthcare sector.
As a DRK pain center and model clinic of the federal government and the state of Rhineland-Palatinate , the hospital was reopened a few days later with 80 beds under the sponsorship of the DRK state association of Rhineland-Palatinate. From now on, under the direction of Hans Ulrich Gerbershagen, it became a special clinic for those suffering from acute and chronic pain. Although the clinic is no longer under the sponsorship of the Alice sisters, the patients are still cared for by them. In 2001 the hospital was expanded to include a day clinic under the direction of Bernd Nagel. The hospital is currently managed by Hans-Raimund Casser. In 2010, Lukas Rößeler took over the management of the neurosurgical area from the chief physician Dei Anang.
Medical departments
In the DRK Pain Center Mainz, doctors and therapists from the specialist disciplines of anesthesia , general medicine , neurology , neurosurgery , orthopedics , psychotherapy , sports and physiotherapy , nursing therapy and social medicine work closely together at all levels of care.
Continuing education, research and teaching
- Special pain therapy (complete)
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation
- Physical therapy
- neurology
- Orthopedics
- Psychological psychotherapy
Scientific collaboration
- German pain society
- Interdisciplinary Society for Orthopedic, Trauma Surgery and General Pain Therapy (IGOST)
- Member of the ANOA pain clinics with expertise in manual medicine
- German Society for Psychological Pain Therapy and Research (DGPSF)