Heilig-Geist-Hospital Bingen

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The Holy Spirit Hospital (HGH) is a hospital of standard care with 190  approved beds in the center of Bingen am Rhein . The hospital operates as a non-profit GmbH (gGmbH); the house is a member of the German Caritas Association . In the main departments surgery (71 beds), internal medicine (78 beds including 3 beds in intensive care medicine ), anesthesia and intensive care and emergency medicine (3 beds) as well as in the specialist departments gynecology and obstetrics (25 beds), ENT (8 beds) and urology (5th floor) Beds), 6,646 inpatients and 26,902 outpatients were treated in 2008. The clinic employs over 300 people, making it one of the largest employers in the region.

history

In a legendary representation of St. Hildegard is told that the foundation was based on St. Rupertus (712-732), who together with his mother, St. Berta, built apartments for the poor and the sick on the banks of the river flowing by, and also provided food, clothing and care. The Binger Hospital was first mentioned in the annals in 1167. At that time there were nurses working in the hospital, devoted to nursing. In 1296 the hospital was an independent foundation with its own administrator. The brothers and sisters belonged to the Order of the Holy Spirit , which had taken over almost all the hospitals on the Rhine from France. At that time the document mentioned the name Heilig-Geist-Hospital for the first time.

Even when Bingen was the canton's capital during the coalition wars and was therefore part of the First French Republic (1799–1804) and the First French Empire (1804–1814) from 1798 to 1814 , the old ecclesiastical foundation remained independent despite the usual secularization receive. In December 1854, through the mediation of Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, the first three sisters from the Order of St. Karl Borromeo entered the hospital in Bingen. The hospital was very shabby at the time. Soon things began to improve again under the direction and supervision of the Sisters of Mercy. The internal order could be restored and the economic situation improved. In the years 1897/1898 the old hospital attached to the Capuchin Church was torn down and replaced by a new building that was put into operation at the turn of the century.

Despite repeated attempts by the state to intervene, the independent legal character of the foundation remained unaffected during the years of the Third Reich. On November 25, 1944, the first heavy air raid on Bingen took place . Four direct hits on the hospital left 47 dead and 70 injured. Various departments of the hospital had to be outsourced. The children's home at the Jägerhaus in the Binger Wald was assigned to the surgical department, while the internal department was admitted to the Hildegardishaus on Rochusberg.

In 1954 the Borromean Sisters, whose number had meanwhile grown to 27 sisters, could look back on 100 years of activity. In the anniversary year 1954, on June 18, the state government issued a new statute for the Heilig-Geist-Hospital in Bingen, confirming it as a foundation under civil law, the assets of which are to be administered by a foundation council. The Board of Trustees consists of seven honorary members. In addition to the respective Lord Mayor / in the city of Bingen and the pastor of the cath. Parish of St. Martin he has five other citizens who are elected to this office. There has been a managing director for the foundation and the hospital since 1994. In 1958 a new ward building was inaugurated, accommodating six wards. The renovation of the older front building and the side wing was completed in 1965. Between 1989 and 1999 a new functional building, a ward extension, a new kitchen and a garbage container building were built. In 2002, the construction of the "Schneider-Texier-Haus", a medical center with radiologists, dialysis practice and family doctor on call practice was completed. From 2001 to 2007, a total renovation of the ward block and the physical therapy as well as renewal of the building services were carried out.

On December 31, 2013, the Borromean Sisters left the hospital after almost 160 years of service; the nuns working there were called back to the mother house in Trier.

In March 2020, the HGH was rededicated as a Corona Special Clinic and since then has exclusively taken care of the care of patients infected with COVID-19 and highly suspected cases that require inpatient care.

literature

  • Anton Philipp Brück : 125 years of Borromean women in Bingen. (Contributions to Bingen city history, social issues. Issue 1: Hospital and Hospital). Published by Bingen, Stadt Bingen, 1981

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quality report . In: heilig-geist-hospital.de. Retrieved August 5, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Quality report 2010 (PDF; 3.3 MB)
  3. ^ Brück, 125 years of Borromean women in Bingen, 1980, p. 7
  4. ^ Brück, 125 years of Borromean women in Bingen, 1980, p. 7
  5. ^ Brück, 125 years in Bingen, 1980, p. 7
  6. ^ Brück, 125 years of Borromean women in Bingen, 1980, p. 9
  7. ↑ Brück, 125 years of Borromean women in Bingen, 1980, p. 14ff.
  8. ^ Brück, 125 Years of Borromean Women in Bingen, 1980, p. 21
  9. ↑ Brück, 125 Years of Borromean Women in Bingen, 1980, p. 28
  10. ^ Brück, 125 Years of Borromean Women in Bingen, 1980, p. 30
  11. ^ Brück, 125 Years of Borromean Women in Bingen, 1980, p. 30
  12. ↑ Heilig-Geist-Hospital Bingen, information for patients and relatives, 2010, p. 52
  13. ^ Brück, 125 Years of Borromean Women in Bingen, 1980, p. 30
  14. ↑ Heilig-Geist-Hospital Bingen, information for patients and relatives, 2010, p. 52
  15. ↑ Binger Heilig-Geist-Hospital becomes Corona-Spezialklinik In: Allgemeine Zeitung (Mainz) , March 23, 2020. Retrieved on April 27, 2020
  16. ↑ HGH is the Corona Special Clinic website of the HGH. Retrieved April 27, 2020

Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 5.9 ″  N , 7 ° 53 ′ 48.6 ″  E