Helios University Hospital Wuppertal
| Helios University Hospital Wuppertal | |
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| Sponsorship | HELIOS Kliniken GmbH & City of Wuppertal |
| place | Wuppertal |
| state |
 North Rhine-Westphalia
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| Country |
 Germany
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 16 '26 " N , 7 ° 10' 28" E |
| Clinic Managing Director | Dr. Holger Raphael, Reiner Micholka |
| Care level | University hospital |
| beds | 1051 |
| Employee | 2,500 |
| areas of expertise | 26th |
| Affiliation | University of Witten / Herdecke |
| founding | 1856 |
| Website | www.helios-kliniken.de |
The Helios University Clinic Wuppertal is a hospital in Wuppertal with locations in Barmen (formerly the municipal hospitals ) and Elberfeld (formerly Ferdinand-Sauerbruch-Klinikum ). It is the largest clinic in the Bergisches Land . It has 1,051 beds and at the three locations in Barmen and Elberfeld (heart center, ENDO clinic in Wuppertal) and Bergisch Land in Ronsdorf (pain clinic) more than 2,500 employees (including staff from the DRK sisterhood in Wuppertal ) and 26 specialist departments.
Since 2004 it has been the first private university hospital in Germany. Every year the clinic accepts around 50,000 inpatients and carries out around 100,000 outpatient treatments. The Helios-Klinikum Wuppertal is one of the largest houses in the Helios Kliniken . It is the university clinic of the University of Witten / Herdecke .
history
Until the merger in 1976, today's two locations were two independent hospitals with their own history, the Ferdinand-Sauerbruch-Klinikum in Wuppertal-Elberfeld and the Barmen municipal hospitals .
Ferdinand Sauerbruch Clinic in Elberfeld
Because of the constant overcrowding of the hospitals in Elberfeld founded in 1820 and 1825, even after a private house had been rented in 1848, the city of Elberfeld decided in 1856 to build a new hospital with 250 beds with an associated "insane asylum". In 1857 the city bought a plot of land on Arrenberger Weg for the construction of the hospital for 5000 thalers . In 1859 the foundation stone for the hospital building was laid, on December 1, 1863 the official opening and commissioning of the “municipal hospitals” of the city of Elberfeld took place. The construction had cost 170,000 thalers instead of the originally approved 100,000 thalers. Due to the growing need for space, the hospital was continuously expanded to include additional buildings in the course of the 19th century. In 1909 the opportunity arose to expand the site by purchasing neighboring properties. On February 21, 1913, after 22 months of construction, the extension was inaugurated. After this expansion, the number of beds was 752. After the First World War , expansions took place on the part of the hospital grounds adjacent to today's Senefelderstrasse. In 1940 the hospital was renamed “Ferdinand Sauerbruch Clinic” on the occasion of Ferdinand Sauerbruch's 65th birthday . In 1976 the clinic was merged with the “Städtische Krankenanstalten Barmen” to form the “Klinikum der Stadt Wuppertal”.
City hospitals Barmen
In 1907, construction work began on the “Städtische Krankenanstalten Barmen” on the site of the former estate in the Schönebeck, adjacent to the Schönebecker Busch. The buildings were designed in the “ Neuberg style ” with elements of Art Deco . To build the foundations, 140,000 cubic meters of earth had to be moved until the hospital buildings could be laid out generously in the pavilion system. On July 27, 1911, the hospital with 556 beds at that time was inaugurated. At the beginning of the 1950s, it was decided to set up a central children's clinic in Barmen. In 1956, this children's hospital was opened in one of the first high-rise buildings in Wuppertal with 200 children's beds. In 1976 the “Städtische Krankenanstalten Barmen” were merged with the “Ferdinand Sauerbruch Clinic” to form the “Clinic of the City of Wuppertal”. In 1998, House 4 for urology and pediatric urology and the clinic for trauma and reconstructive surgery were built.
privatization
The hospital is run by the Klinikum Wuppertal GmbH . The majority owner of this supporting company has been the Helios-Kliniken Group , a large German hospital chain, since January 1, 2003 . Helios had taken over 94.9 percent of Klinikum Wuppertal GmbH from the city of Wuppertal for 34 million euros, with the city remaining 5.1 percent, which meant that it remained a minority shareholder, as the city wanted to have a say in decisions relevant to local politics. Helios GmbH undertook to take over part of the clinic's debts (€ 38 million) and to redeem a corresponding guarantee from the city; Furthermore, Helios GmbH made a financing commitment of 27 million euros for investments in structural and infrastructural improvements to the clinic. The city had to take over the remaining debts (around € 66 million). The investment commitments were fulfilled long before the Helios Kliniken announced another extensive new building at the Barmen site in 2014 with an investment sum of over 100 million euros. Critics of the privatization fear that health services and medical training will be curtailed if the clinic should not prove to be profitable enough. It is the largest of the Helios clinics in Germany .
Cooperation with the University of Witten / Herdecke
The University of Witten / Herdecke, which is also private, has been cooperating with the clinic since 1998. Since August 2004 the house has been the university hospital of the University of Witten / Herdecke. The Helios Clinic in Wuppertal thus became the first university hospital run by a private clinic company. As early as 1994, students and doctors were trained as an intern in Wuppertal. In January 2010 both institutions signed a cooperation agreement on this. There are currently nine chairs at the University of Witten / Herdecke at the clinic, and it is planned to increase the number of chairs to twelve in the next few years. Research is also being carried out at the existing chairs in the specialist departments for anesthesiology , surgery , dermatology , cardiology , neurology , pathology , urology , internal medicine and clinical pharmacology .
The recognition of the Wuppertal Helios-Kliniken as a university hospital was criticized by the umbrella organization for German university medicine and the German university association . In a statement it was said that “the associations saw the risk of loss of quality due to the inflationary award of the title university hospital ”, since there have been no binding criteria for awarding titles since the federal reform of 2007. In this context, the associations criticized the fact that “Helios has not yet appeared in medical research” and the absence of “a complete range of subjects including preclinical training by a medical faculty”. The clinic was initially only allowed to call itself the “Clinic of the private University of Witten-Herdecke”, but from 2016 it will definitely be called “Helios University Hospital Wuppertal - University of Witten / Herdecke”.
Doctors' strike in 2006
On doctors' strike in Germany in 2006 , members of the hospital involved in solidarity with an "active" lunch break. Since the hospital was not part of the public service because of its private sponsorship, it was not affected by the actual strikes. However, a signal should also be sent regarding the negotiations on a group collective agreement.
extension
After setting up a clinic for neurosurgery, the clinic was recognized as a supra-regional trauma center in 2013 . The aim is to ensure timely care, especially for stroke patients and patients with severe head injuries. Criticism of this project came primarily from the Bethesda Hospital in Wuppertal , which was previously the only local provider of this care.
Clinics and centers
The Helios University Hospital Wuppertal is divided into different clinics, departments and institutes that deal with a medical sub-area. There are also several cross-departmental centers in which several disciplines work together. Several of these centers are also certified by external institutions.
Clinics
| anesthesia | |
| Ophthalmology | |
| Surgical Center: | General and Visceral Surgery Vascular Surgery Endocrine Surgery Hereditary Tumor Surgery Proctology |
| Dermatology and phlebology | |
| Endoprosthetics | |
| Gynecology and Obstetrics | |
| Ear, nose and throat medicine | |
| Cardiac surgery | |
| Intensive care | |
| Institute for Medical Laboratory Diagnostics | |
| Institute for Emergency Medicine | |
| Institute for Pathology and Molecular Pathology | |
| Paediatrics | |
| Medical Clinic 1: | Hematology Oncology and Palliative Medicine Rheumatology Nephrology |
| Medical Clinic 2: | Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology and Diabetology |
| Medical Clinic 3: | cardiology |
| Neurosurgery | |
| neurology | |
| Emergency center | |
| Nuclear medicine | |
| Plastic and hand surgery, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery |
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| Phillip Klee Institute for Pharmacology | |
| Pulmonology | |
| radiology | |
| Radiation therapy and radio-oncology | |
| Thoracic surgery | |
| Trauma surgery and orthopedics | |
| urology | |
| Spinal surgery |
Interdisciplinary centers
- Allergy center
- Aesthetics Center ( Aesthetics Center Wuppertal )
- Breast center
- Endoprosthetic Center
- Vascular center ( Bergisches vascular center )
- Joint center
- Hand trauma center
- Heart center
- Child Traumatology
- Liver Center ( Bergisches Liver Center )
- Lung Center ( Bergisches Lung Center )
- Perinatal Center Level I
- Prostate center
- Social Pediatric Center
- Supraregional trauma center
- Vein center
- Spinal center
Cancer centers certified by the German Cancer Society :
- Colon Cancer Center
- Skin cancer center
- Lung cancer center
- Pancreatic Carcinoma Center
incident
On August 29, 2006, a then 36-year-old anesthetist at the Helios Clinic in Barmen confessed that , in his role as training manager for the rescue services, he had made four male underage wards defenseless on the pretext of a drug trial using the narcotic drug Dormicum and then abused them. The first of the acts, always carried out on weekends, dates back to 2004. During the deeds, he recorded what was happening on a video camera . The fact flew open after a fire chief contenders from Cologne Weidenpesch woke up during the fake drug testing and a week later display reimbursed. The doctor committed suicide on September 14, 2006. The investigation was then closed.
literature
- Rahul Sengupta, Hans J. Streicher, Johannes Köbberling: 125 years of Ferdinand-Sauerbruch-Klinikum Wuppertal-Elberfeld. Published by the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Ferdinand Sauerbruch Clinic. Born, Wuppertal 1988, ISBN 3-87093-053-5 .
Web links
- HELIOS Clinic Wuppertal
- Criticism of privatization (PDF; 296 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.helios-kliniken.de/klinik/wuppertal.html
- ↑ Wolfgang Mondorf: History of Elberfeld ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Wolfgang Mondorf: History of Barmens ( Memento from January 4, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ Press release from the city of Wuppertal on privatization ( Memento from July 6, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Solinger Tageblatt (Katharina Rüth): Helios-Klinikum: Expansion continues. In: www.solinger-tageblatt.de. B. Boll, Verlag des Solinger Tageblattes GmbH & Co. KG, October 23, 2017, accessed on March 23, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Privatization of hospitals Bochumer Stadt- & Studentenzeitung from January 15, 2003 (PDF)
- ^ HELIOS Klinikum Wuppertal now University Hospital , Science Information Service, August 10, 2004
- ↑ Helios Klinikum officially becomes the University Clinic wz-newsline.de from February 4th 2010
- ^ Criticism of the university clinic status for Helios wz-newsline.de from February 10, 2010
- ^ "Active lunch break" at HELIOS clinics / In Schwelm and Wuppertal Solidarity campaign for strikers in the public service , press release from verdi from February 22, 2006
- ↑ Neurosurgery: Helios plans cause hospital dispute wz-newsline.de of August 16, 2012, accessed on August 20, 2012
- ↑ onkomap.de, national directory of cancer centers certified by the German Cancer Society ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), accessed on December 4, 2016
- ↑ Abuse in the clinic: doctor gave notice. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . General-Anzeiger, August 30, 2006
- ↑ Scandal doctor Dino E. takes his own life. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . General-Anzeiger, September 14, 2006