University geriatric medicine Felix Platter
The Felix Platter University Geriatric Medicine (also Felix Platter Spital ) in Basel is a university center for inpatient and outpatient geriatric medicine. The hospital is active in both teaching and research in the geriatric medicine focus areas of mobility , cognition and nutrition.
The hospital is the second largest hospital in the city after the University Hospital Basel . The company has around 850 employees and has been independent since January 2012. It is named after Felix Platter , a Basel physician and university professor of the 16th century. Around 3000 patients are treated every year.
Services
The hospital is active in the following areas:
Medical
University center for geriatric medicine
- Acute Geriatric University Clinic (AGUK)
- Memory Clinic
- Basel Mobility Center / Fall Clinic
- Teaching and Research
Rehabilitation Center
- RehaFelix Geriatrics
- RehaFelix Neurology
- RehaFelix Orthopedics
- RehaFelix Rheumatology
- Psychogeriatry
- day clinic
- Special consultation hours: incontinence, malnutrition , stroke and cognition, orthoses and prostheses, wound management
Passerelle
- Elderly care
maintenance
- Acute geriatrics
- Rehabilitation including psychogeriatry
- Passerelle
Therapies and counseling
- Activation therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Nutritional advice
- Speech therapy
- Physiotherapy (including therapy bath and Fitalix training center)
- Psychological service
- Pastoral care
- Social counseling
history
The "Felix Platter-Spital" has existed under this name since November 1956. Its beginnings go back to 1890. At that time, the Basel Citizens Hospital was hopelessly overcrowded, which is why an additional hospital with 120 beds was put into operation on Burgfelderstrasse, which was largely undeveloped and low-traffic at the time. The hospital has been used in a variety of ways over the years - during the two world wars it was also used as a magazine for the military and as accommodation for the soldiers. In between and especially after the wars, more and more patients from surgery, neurology, general medicine and gynecology were cared for in the hospital.
In 1956 the previous “auxiliary hospital” became the “Felix Platter hospital”. Soon afterwards, the planning work for the new building and the two staff houses by the architects Fritz Rickenbacher and Walter Baumann began. 37.7 million francs had been approved for this. The inauguration took place on February 24, 1967. During this time the Geriatric Competence Center, the Orthopedic and the Rheumatological University Clinic were established. The Felix Platter Hospital has also been constantly changing structurally. The last major renovation and expansion was completed in 1999.
The orthopedic university clinic was moved to the university hospital on March 1, 2003. At the same time, the orthopedic rehabilitation in the Felix Platter Hospital was upgraded.
On January 1, 2012, the Felix-Platter-Spital became an "independent institution under public law" and is therefore no longer part of the administration of the canton of Basel-Stadt.
At the beginning of 2013, the University Hospital and the Felix Platter Hospital expanded their collaboration. The acute geriatrics (AGUK, Memory Clinic, Basel Mobility Center) of the USB were merged with the Felix Platter Hospital on January 1, 2013, including the university chair for geriatrics. This laid the foundation stone for a newly designed university center for geriatric medicine and rehabilitation for the benefit of the older resident population in the region. At the same time, the university chair for rheumatology previously domiciled at the FPS was newly attached to the university hospital.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b FELIX PLATTER: from doctor to institution - history of the hospital on its homepage, accessed on July 14, 2019.
- ↑ CS2 AG-Switzerland- http://www.cs2.ch : Felix Platter Spital - History. Retrieved January 18, 2019 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '52.6 " N , 7 ° 33' 55.5" E ; CH1903: 609543 / 268220