Evangelical Hospital Unna
| Evangelical Hospital Unna | |
|---|---|
| place | Unna |
| state | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| founding | November 1, 1858 |
| carrier | Unna Evangelical Hospital Foundation |
| management | Dietmar Herberhold, Board Member |
| beds | 324 |
| Employee | around 800 |
| areas of expertise | 7th |
| Website | www.ek-unna.de |
The Evangelical Hospital Unna (EK) is a basic and standard care hospital in the legal form of a foundation under private law with 320 beds in the main departments of internal medicine , general and visceral surgery , trauma surgery , orthopedics , vascular surgery, neurology and anesthesiology .
It employs around 900 people. Every year around 12,000 inpatients and 27,000 outpatients are treated in EK.
On the campus there is also a day care facility for mentally ill people (LWL-Klinik), a facility for women and men with complex disabilities and epilepsy ( Bethel -Regional), a daycare center, two medical centers and a parking garage.
history
The Evangelical Hospital Unna was founded as a sick and poor institution on November 1st, 1858. The foundation for the establishment of a medical facility was laid in 1315 when the hospital "Zum Heiligen Geist" was brought into being from a community foundation. At that time, however, the word “hospital” was mainly used in connection with an institution for the poor and needy.
With the growing population in cities and the associated growing number of epidemics , the desire for an efficient facility with medical care arose. In Unna, evangelical members of the city council for the poor created the conditions for the establishment of such an institution on November 5, 1857.
It was essential for all resolutions that on November 13, 1857 the widow Minette Poetter (née Koester) transferred her property to the city of Unna, with the stipulation that a Protestant poor hospital and hospital be set up on it. With Poetter's death on March 4, 1858, the donation became legally binding and the hospital furnishings could begin. On November 1, 1858, the Unna hospital and poor house was opened in the building of the Koester Foundation. Due to new knowledge in the fields of medicine and nursing as well as the growing number of patients, there was increasingly a lack of space. For this reason, the old building was sold to build a new one, which was inaugurated in October 1889. Until the First World War, the new hospital was expanded several times.
With the First World War, the Evangelical Hospital was confronted with new tasks: from 1914 to 1919, an additional military hospital was set up. At the same time, hospital operations continued for the Unnaer. After the war, the institution began with the necessary restructuring and expansion of the building.
During the Second World War, a reserve hospital was set up in the Catholic Hospital, and medical care for civilians was provided in the Evangelical Hospital, which was repeatedly the victim of artillery fire. Due to the total overloading of the house, a new building was planned in the early 1950s, which was completed and inaugurated on June 14, 1953. In the following 25 years, further renovations and extensions were in the foreground. A modern, high-performance building constructed on a T-shaped floor plan opened in December 1966. Numerous extensions followed.
In the organizational structures, the house adapted to the developments in the hospital system, which were increasingly oriented towards economic aspects. In 1997 the foundation changed its statutes - from now on the clinic was no longer to be run by an honorary board of trustees, but by a full-time foundation board member.
Corporate management
The management of the Evangelical Hospital Unna consists of the foundation board (managing director), the nursing director and the medical and deputy medical director.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 2.1 ″ N , 7 ° 40 ′ 38.7 ″ E