Elisabeth Children's Hospital
The Elisabeth Children's Hospital has existed in the city of Oldenburg since 1872 and has been part of the municipal hospitals, today's Klinikum Oldenburg , since 1939 . It is now the University Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine of the European Medical School Oldenburg Groningen .
history
19th century
In the 19th century, the city's only hospital until 1871, the Peter Friedrich Ludwigs Hospital (PFL), only admitted sick children in emergencies or infectious diseases.
In 1831 socially committed women founded the Oldenburg Women's Association, which initially focused on providing sick adults and women in childbed with food, clothing and aids. The association also set up a “preservation school” for children from poor families. The voluntary work was financed through donations, gifts and bequests.
On the occasion of the marriage of Princess Elisabeth of Saxony-Altenburg to Hereditary Duke Nicolaus Friedrich Peter, his father Paul Friedrich August set up a foundation for charitable purposes in 1852. He donated 3,000 thalers to the “Elisabeth Foundation” as start-up capital. The money was administered by the city's magistrate. The interest should enable the women's association to continue to care for sick children of parents in need. Another fund collected additional donations from 1855 for the construction of a children's hospital. In 1870 a sponsoring association was founded, the Association of Friends of the Elisabeth Children's Hospital. He bought a plot of land on Peterstrasse right next to the PFL; construction could begin.
The inauguration of the "Elisabeth Children's Hospital" named after the foundation was set for June 3, 1872. The two-story brick building had 24 beds; initially two deaconesses from the Bethlehem deaconess institution in Ludwigslust were sent to provide care, and were soon followed by a third deaconess. There was also a servant employed. Medizinalrat Lüken, who was also in charge of the neighboring PFL, was responsible for the medical treatment. By the end of December 1875, 249 children had been cared for in the children's hospital. On the occasion of their silver wedding anniversary, the grand ducal couple donated 10,000 marks, which was used to finance the first extension. In 1894 the children's hospital was given an isolation facility.
20th century
A renovation and expansion of the children's hospital took place in 1909, so the number of beds rose to 45. From the beginning of the year, the care of the children was in the hands of four deaconesses from the Oldenburg Elisabethstift, in 1910 and 1913 a further deaconess was added; in addition, three servants have now been employed. In 1928 a further 25 beds were added with the expansion of the attic and the addition of the insulating house.
Due to an increasingly worsening economic situation, the children's hospital was transferred to the Peter Friedrich Ludwigs Hospital in 1934. The foundation was thus extinguished.
On March 30, 1936, the deaconesses had to quit their work in the children's hospital. The nursing management was entrusted to the nurses of the Nazi sisterhood , known as "brown sisters" because of their brown costume . In 1938 the city of Oldenburg took over the administration of the Peter Friedrich Ludwigs Hospital and thus also of the Elisabeth Children's Hospital and the Oldenburg Women's Clinic. After the end of the war, a former deaconess took on the provisional management of care until December 1945, when a contract was signed with the Evangelical Diakonieverein . The deaconry sister Erna Riebau was from 1946 as superior for both hospitals - Elisabeth Children's Hospital and PFL - Paula Seifert became the leading sister at the children's hospital.
In 1953 the clinic moved to the Kreyenbrück district , near the municipal hospitals. At Cloppenburger Straße 363, a former officers' mess of the Wehrmacht was converted and an infection department was added. In the same year the Association of Friends of the Elisabeth Children's Hospital was established again, this time as a support association. Members were among others the then Lower Saxony Minister of Social Affairs Heinrich Albertz and Nikolaus von Oldenburg . The building at Peterstraße 1 was inhabited by nurses who worked in the PFL until 1984. After the last specialist departments had moved to the new location in Kreyenbrück, the city of Oldenburg's children's and youth library was set up here.
From 1974 onwards several specialist departments were established: first general paediatrics and hematology (later also oncology) and child neurology, later the intensive care unit and a ward for premature and newborn babies. The department for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy opened in 1977 and developed into an independent clinic. Most recently, Pediatric Pneumology and Allergology, as well as Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Surgery were added.
21st century
The building on Cloppenburger Strasse soon no longer met the requirements of a modern children's clinic, so that by 2003 a new hospital was built at the “An den Voßbergen” site with a direct connection to the clinic. The clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy also moved from Cloppenburger Strasse in 2008 to another new building on nearby Brandenburger Strasse.
Specialist clinics
The University Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine - the Elisabeth Children's Hospital - consists of the following clinics:
- Clinic for General Paediatrics, Hematology / Oncology
- Clinic for Neuropaediatrics and Metabolic Diseases
- Clinic for Neonatology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pediatric Cardiology
- Clinic for Pediatric Pneumology and Allergology
- Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
- Pediatric Surgery Clinic
cooperation
The specialist clinics of the Elisabeth Children's Hospital work together with specialist departments at the clinic, including pediatric urology, ENT medicine, dermatology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, trauma surgery and the internal medicine clinics.
literature
- Jürgen Drescher: The Elisabeth Children's Hospital in Oldenburg from the beginning to the present. Isensee, Oldenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89995-880-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Drescher: The Elisabeth Children's Hospital in Oldenburg from the beginning to the present. Isensee, Oldenburg 2012, p. 24
- ↑ a b Drescher 2012, p. 25
- ^ M. Roth, P. Tornow: Essays on the medical history of the city of Oldenburg. Isensee, Oldenburg 1999, p. 310
- ↑ Drescher 2012, p. 104
- ↑ Drescher 2012, p. 127