Diakoniewerk Neumünster
The Diakoniewerk Neumünster Foundation - Swiss Nursing School is a social enterprise in the health sector based in Zollikerberg , Canton of Zurich.
history
The Foundation has two roots, the first to the 19th century: the Evangelical Association of the Canton Zurich opened in 1858 when Hegibachplatz in Zurich the "health and Diakonissenanstalt Neumünster", its first president Johann Jakob Füssli was, which was converted into a foundation in 1931 . In 1933, the Neumünster Hospital moved to a new building in the Zollikerberg community for reasons of space. The second root comes from the Swiss non-profit women's association . In 1901 he founded the “Swiss Nursing School Foundation, Nurse School and Hospital, Zurich”. The founding story is a piece of women's history. Anna Heer and Marie Heim-Vögtlin , the first Swiss doctors to complete their medical studies at the University of Zurich , were committed to founding the nursing school. Both the nursing school and the deaconesses trained nurses in their homes. What made it possible for many women to work was not a matter of course at the time. The Rehalp nursing home in Zurich closed in February 2019 and is now used externally by another nursing home.
On January 1, 1998, the two traditional foundations merged under the current name "Stiftung Diakoniewerk Neumünster - Swiss Nursing School". After the Zurich government council decided in 2004 to concentrate vocational training in health care on two centers, the Careum training center Zurich was founded in 2005 with the partners Kalaidos , Neumünster and Eleonorenstiftung. In 2007 the last nursing specialists completed their training at the “Vocational School for Nursing - Neumünster”. The director of the foundation is the health economist Werner Widmer
Foundation purposes
The purpose of the foundation is to be non-profit-making in the field of health and social services. The top priority is the well-being and respect for the dignity of each person entrusted to the foundation. It is primarily involved in these four areas:
- It provides acute medical and nursing services by running a hospital.
- It maintains offers for living, accompanying and long-term care for the elderly.
- She is involved in education and training, especially in the nursing area. This also includes the development of contemporary forms of spirituality.
- She undertakes to care for the deaconesses of the motherhouse in healthy, sick and old days. It secures the life of the deaconess sisterhood in material and spiritual terms and supports their development.
The foundation's purposes are implemented today by the following companies:
- Zollikerberg Hospital
- Retirement Center Hottingen in Zurich
- Neumünsterpark residence in Zollikerberg
- Institute Neumünster
In addition, there is the Neumünster deaconess sisterhood as well as the areas of gastronomy and rooms in Zollikerberg and gardening.
literature
- Knellwolf U. (2007). Life houses. From asylum to social enterprise - 150 years of Diakoniewerk Neumünster. Zurich: Verlag neue Zürcher Zeitung (link)
- Bühler C. (2007). The care A hospital for women - created and shaped by women. Zurich: Chronos Verlag
- Verena E. Müller : Anna Heer 1863-1918. Founder of the Swiss Nursing School. Wettingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-906199-19-1 .