Wald Höhenklinik
| Zurich Rehabilitation Center Wald | |
|---|---|
| place | Forest ZH |
| Canton | Zurich |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 713 846 / 237257 |
| beds | 400 |
| Employee | 425 (2017) |
| including doctors | 17th |
| Annual budget | CHF 40.86 million (2017) |
| founding | 1898 |
| Website | zuercher-rehazentren.ch |
The Zurich Rehabilitation Center Wald (until 2015 Höhenklinik Wald ) is a clinic for medical rehabilitation in the municipality of Wald on the Faltigberg near Hittenberg ( 885 m above sea level ) in the Swiss canton of Zurich .
The clinic is connected to public transport with the 892 bus that goes to Wald train station.
history
The clinic was built in 1898 as a forest sanatorium to combat tuberculosis .
A “Committee for the Construction of a Sanatorium” had existed in the Canton of Zurich since 1894. Locations outside the canton such as Davos , Flims and Braunwald were also discussed . The municipality of Wald decided to apply as a location, according to the “Volksblatt vom Bachtel” quoted a report by the municipality president: “Places that are not on the same level as the forest have become health resorts. But forest, with its magnificent mountain panorama and the many easy-to-reach beautiful points of Dlassung, Lauf, Scheidegg and its good rail connections, has come to a standstill here. " The decision was ultimately made in 1896 between Faltigberg ob Wald (Aussenwacht Hittenberg) and Seelisberg ob Gibswil . A decision was made in favor of forest on the condition that the community had to build an access road and ensure the drinking water supply.
When it opened in 1898 as the Zürcherische Heilstätte for lung patients , the capacity was 88 patients and the daily tax was 2 to 5 francs, depending on financial circumstances, with an average duration of 104 days. The sanatorium was heavily frequented and was repeatedly expanded, in 1908 by a children's house, in 1910 by the former Pension Sonnenberg as an outstation with 30 beds for patients "with little prospect of recovery", in 1916 by a medical center.
In 1909 an artificial pneumothorax was created in Wald for the first time. In 1911 the clinic received an X-ray facility, electric light and central heating. The first chief physician was Heinrich Staub (1898–1918), followed by Franz Deiss (1918–1940) and Eduard Häfliger (1940–1977).
The clinic was threatened with closure due to the decline in tuberculosis in the 1940s. The cities of Zurich and Winterthur granted a loan of 4.18 million Swiss francs for a renovation (1946–1951). In 1971 the clinic was renamed from Zürcher Heilstätte Wald to Zürcher Höhenklinik Wald . Under head physician Otto Brändli (1977–2007) the sanatorium was converted into a multi-purpose clinic. A total renovation in the years 1984–1990 was budgeted for 21.1 million francs while maintaining the capacity of 144 beds. Non-tuberculous lung diseases such as lung cancer and chronic bronchitis as well as other internal medical diseases were now also treated. More and more patients were also admitted to rehabilitation .
In 2012, the clinic was again threatened by relocation to Uster . An interest group was formed in Wald with the aim of preventing the municipality's largest employer from moving away. The Zürcher Höhenkliniken Foundation , which has been the Zürcher RehaZentren Foundation since 2015 , decided in 2014 that the Wald Höhenklinik should remain in place and that its capacity should be increased from 284 to 400 rehabilitation beds .
Web links
literature
- Iris Ritzmann: House rules and rest cure: From public sanatorium to special clinic: 100 years of the Zürcher Höhenklinik Wald. Chronos (1998).
- Zürcher RehaZentren Foundation (ed.): From reclining cures to modern rehabilitation. 100 years of the Zurich Rehabilitation Center in Davos, 125 years of the Zurich Rehabilitation Center Foundation. Self-published 2018, ISBN 978-3-033-06428-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Key data 2017 Rehabilitation , Health Directorate of the Katon Zurich (2018).
- ^ A b Otto Brändli, Zürcher Höhenklinik Wald (swisstb.org) , 2012.
- ↑ a b Urs-Peter Zingg, Vom Sanatorium zur Höhenklinik , Us eusere Walder Heimet 251 (February 2013).
- ↑ CV Brändli Otto (swisslung.org)
- ↑ Stefan Hotz: The people of the forest stand by the high altitude clinic. November 13, 2012.
- ↑ Höhenklinik Wald is now called “RehaZentrum” Zurich, June 14, 2015.
- ↑ Höhenklinik, forest remains. Tages-Anzeiger, December 19, 2014.