Elisabeth Foundation (Birkenfeld)
| Elisabeth Foundation of the DRK in Birkenfeld / Nahe |
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| Headquarters: | Walter-Bleicker-Platz 55765 Birkenfeld |
| Legal form: | Foundation under private law |
| Founder: | DRK district association Birkenfeld |
| Internet: | [1] |
| Board of Directors | |
| Chairman: | Matthias Schneider, District Administrator |
| deputy Chair: | Saskia Wollny, Managing Director of the German Pension Insurance Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Board | |
| Board: | Hans-Dieter Herter |
| Area manager: | Education:
Hans-Dieter Herter bless you: Michaela Lindemann Central Service: Steffen Schopper |
The Elisabeth Foundation of the DRK zu Birkenfeld / Nahe emerged from the hospital founded in 1885 by the Patriotic Women's Association .
The purpose of the foundation is professional and medical rehabilitation . In addition to the primary care hospital, parts of the company include a senior citizens' center in Kirschweiler , private specialist schools for occupational therapy, geriatric care and geriatric care assistance and the youth organization for education and social affairs with vocational training measures ( vocational preparation ) and the Birkenfeld vocational support organization . There are branches in Idar-Oberstein, Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken and Trier.
history
Beginnings
Under the protectorate of Grand Duchess Elisabeth von Oldenburg , who gave the hospital its name , the Patriotic Women's Association was established in Birkenfeld in 1882 . He joined the main association of the same name in Berlin and received as a gift a plot of land to build a hospital and a generous donation.
In the year it was founded, Birkenfeld was a garrison town with around 3,000 inhabitants. On February 7, 1885, the one-story hospital with 25 beds was released for use. The first medical director was the family and district doctor Flick from Birkenfeld. Sick people in need were provided with a warm meal every day by the soup club .
In the following years, the spatial and technical equipment improved: an operating room was built, which was also available to the resident doctors for outpatient operations; an isolation house was built to treat children with tuberculosis . Another hospital ward with ten beds was set up.
With the start of World War I in 1914, the Elisabeth Hospital was as a reserve military hospital use. After the end of the war, the occupying powers confiscated the hospital.
From 1929 the Birkenfeld hospital was completely rebuilt and expanded again. In 1930 Walter Bleicker joined the administration as a full-time employee.
time of the nationalsocialism
In 1935 and 1936, the hospital 's functional rooms were expanded as the last engagement of the Patriotic Women's Association . A short time later, the National Socialists incorporated the Patriotic Women's Association into the DRK and the hospital was also assigned to the DRK.
In 1938 the nursing school was founded. However, the regular training company did not begin until 1947 with the training of five student nurses.
In 1939 the hospital became a reserve hospital again. Barracks had to be built and the wounded moved to buildings in the city in order to be able to treat up to 700 wounded at the same time (BRANDT, HP: 100 Years of the Elisabeth Hospital - Birkenfeld 1985). It is thanks in particular to the personal commitment of Walter Bleicker and Karl Breitenbruch that this task could be mastered.
Expansion of the hospital after 1945
A new department for internal medicine was opened in the hospital in 1946 . A sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis with initially sixty beds was built in 1947. An ear, nose and throat medicine department was set up in the hospital the following year. In 1950 the hospital board of trustees was brought into being, which worked until an administrative board was formed in 1966.
Thanks to the collaboration of Denis Favre, the delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) residing in Bad Kreuznach , and Walter Bleicker , the hospital administrator, the school for the disabled was put into operation on October 1, 1951 , in which 31 young war returnees with considerable numbers Injuries, often amputations , started with retraining. The academic professor AR Fischer from Silesia was able to be engaged as the first head of training . As the first retraining professions, draftsman, machine draftsman and carpenter were selected as handicapped accessible.
In 1953 the first nurses' home was built by purchasing and converting a private house.
The high forest sanatorium was built in 1955 and replaced the old Wehrmacht barracks as a new accommodation option . A new bed wing was built in the hospital .
education
The technician training in the disabled technical school was officially recognized by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Culture in 1957. Since the accommodation was no longer sufficient due to the steadily growing number of students, plots were purchased on which new buildings were built. In addition to the war invalids, there were adults who were no longer able to work due to illness or accidents.
In 1960 and 1961 technical schools for construction , mechanical and electrical engineering were affiliated. New classrooms and bedrooms for the rehabilitation students were set up, the number of which had meanwhile increased to 200.
In 1966, the establishment of the Elisabeth Foundation of the German Red Cross in Birkenfeld / Nahe was approved by the German Red Cross and given official approval. The first chairman of the board of directors was the DRK district chairman Walter Beyer, who held the office until 1982. Walter Bleicker was appointed managing director of the foundation .
At the end of the 1960s, major renovation work began again. In the first phase of construction, the house built a central kitchen which, in addition to the hospital patients, also catered for the rehabilitants of the vocational support organization.
In 1970 the sponsorship course was established by the Elisabeth Foundation and the International Federation . Start with 48 students in the metal, wood and electrical fields. Currently, in the Measures for Young People division, vocational training measures (BvB) are offered, some with boarding school, inter-company training courses (vocational training in external institutions, BAE) as well as qualifications and employment for the legal system SGB II.
Extensive construction work was planned in the 1970s and gradually implemented. So were z. B. a two-storey kitchen and cafeteria building , a swimming pool and a new building for the construction technology were built. In addition, new residential buildings were required as the number of “rehabilitation patients” had risen to over 600.
Teaching in the educational center for social affairs began in 1978.
In the second construction phase in 1980, the bed wing was renovated, the approach for lying sick people was redesigned, the laboratory and pharmacy were rebuilt, operating theaters and delivery rooms as well as the weekly ward were renovated and equipped with the latest technology. In order to improve the diagnostic possibilities in internal medicine, the department was expanded to include endoscopy and sonography . The number of beds rose to 123, of which fifty in surgery , fifty in internal medicine, fourteen in gynecology and nine in obstetrics .
In 1987 the educational center for social affairs was recognized by the World Association of Occupational Therapy Schools (WFOT).
Younger development
In 1999 the old people's home of the DRK local association Idar was taken over . Further extensive extension and renovation measures were started in 2002, which extended over the next few years in several construction phases. An extension was built to accommodate the interdisciplinary intensive care unit and the admission and outpatient treatment area.
Further restructuring in the area of surgery and the complete reconstruction of the gynecological and obstetrical department guarantee a contemporary offer for the patients with regard to the ambience and the equipment and enable a more effective workflow. The intensive care unit and outpatient care unit in the completed extension of the hospital could be moved into in 2004. In 2008 the hospital was expanded to include the "Orthopedic Pain Therapy" department based on the ANOA concept.
literature
- Hans Peter Brandt: 100 years of the Elisabeth Hospital of the German Red Cross in Birkenfeld / Nahe: 1885 - 1985 , Charivari Verlag, Idar-Oberstein 1985