Hochtaunus clinics
| Hochtaunus-Kliniken gGmbH
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| legal form | gGmbH |
| founding | 2001 |
| Seat | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , Germany |
| management | Management: Julia Hefty |
| Number of employees | 1300 employees, 1000 of them full-time |
| Branch | hospital |
| Website | www.hochtaunus-kliniken.de |
The Hochtaunus-Kliniken gGmbH is a special purpose vehicle of the Hochtaunuskreis . It operates the clinics in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and Usingen and, since January 1, 2016, also the St. Josef Hospital in Königstein im Taunus , which is run as a primary care hospital . Together these hospitals have 619 beds and treat around 21,000 inpatients and over 40,000 outpatients annually.
Hospital Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
The "General Hospital"
On May 5, 1851, the "General Hospital" was opened in Bad Homburg. On behalf of the Office Poor Commission, the doctor Trapp looked after 15 beds with two employees. The hospital in a backyard at Elisabethenstrasse 16 (the front building was occupied by a pawnbroker who mainly did business with customers of the Bad Homburg casino ) was later expanded to 40 beds. Since this was not enough either, a new building outside the city was planned on the “Rennäckern” at the end of the 1890s.
The classicist new building
In 1899 the city of Homburg (it only became “Bad” in 1912) acquired the site. Construction was initially delayed because Empress Auguste Viktoria complained that the hospital was too close to the castle. After some persuasion and inspection of the building plans, the Empress agreed to the new building and the groundbreaking ceremony took place on November 20, 1902. On October 20, 1904, the new hospital was inaugurated. The representative main building in classicist style (architect was Friedrich Graeber ) had 64 beds. An administration building, an isolation ward with eight beds and a morgue were built as ancillary buildings .
In 1912 the hospital was expanded to include a nursing school and in 1925 the first X-ray machine was purchased.
District hospital
In 1928 the responsibility for the hospital was transferred to the Obertaunuskreis . The Obertaunus district hospital was also expanded further. In 1930 the west wing was expanded by another 10 beds for internal medicine, and in May 1941 a new building, the A wing, was inaugurated. Due to the Second World War , the number of patients rose sharply. The staff was also increased. At the end of the war, 65 sisters were employed.
Even after the war, demand continued to rise. Immigration by the displaced led to further expansion. In 1954 there were 335 beds and 151 employees. In 1961 the C-Building was built and the capacity increased to 429 beds. In 1963 the classical main building was demolished and the B-building was erected. This made new rooms available for the nursing school, a separate kindergarten, a chapel and a cafeteria as well as residential buildings for the hospital staff. Since 1973 there was a dedicated helipad. In 1977 520 beds were offered. The 587 employees worked in a number of departments that had been added in recent years. In addition to the surgical, internal and gynecological wards, which had existed since 1911, departments for nuclear medicine, urology, intensive care, pathology and physical therapy were now also established.
Academic teaching hospital
In 1979 the clinic became an academic teaching hospital for the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and from 1982 for the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . Medical students from these universities have been doing their practical year in Bad Homburg since then.
A number of measures have been taken since the 1980s to improve the hospital's performance and efficiency. Laundry, kitchen, laboratory, radiology and pathology were outsourced to subsidiary or sister companies. Above all, however, the merger with the second district hospital in Usingen took place in 2001. There are currently 473 beds in Bad Homburg.
New building
The new building for around 80 million euros was not built at the traditional location, but on the outskirts opposite the district office. The funds were earmarked in the state's requirements planning. The 70 hectares required were acquired in early 2008; the start of construction was planned for 2010.
Before construction began, archaeological excavations were carried out on the future clinic site. These investigations were necessary because there were indications of the existence of ground monuments in the archives of the Hessian state archeology. In accordance with the provisions of the Hessian Monument Protection Act, the site was therefore only released under monument law under certain conditions. The extensive excavations of the Hessian state archeology (Hesse ARCHAEOLOGY) brought to light one of the best preserved settlements of the Rössen culture of the Neolithic in Germany . Uncovered u. a. the traces of three houses around 6300 years old. The buildings were up to 41 meters long and 8 meters wide. They had the floor plan of a ship's hull, which is characteristic of this culture. The point was directed to the west in order to offer as little resistance as possible to the wind. The entrance was to the east. The cost of the several months of excavation by the 17-person team, including the so-called first aid for the finds and the necessary scientific analyzes, was just under 1.5 million euros. The investigations brought to light numerous finds, including ceramic fragments and stone tools.
The new construction of the two hospitals in Usingen and Bad Homburg is to be financed through a public-private partnership model. The construction will cost a total of 196.1 million euros. The costs with conventional financing are given by the Hochtaunuskliniken at 218.1 million. Over the term of 25 years, the total costs for construction, financing and operation amount to 523.3 million euros instead of 734.2 million.
The development work began in March 2011 and the shell was completed by mid-2012. On March 15, 2014, the Hochtaunus clinics in Bad Homburg put their new clinic into operation.
Hochtaunusklinik Usingen
In the 14th and 15th centuries, the first nursing facilities were set up in Usingen with the “Sichenhaus” and the “ Beguine's Accommodation ”. The history of the Hessenklinik only began in the 18th century with the establishment of the fund for “pious and benevolent purposes” of the Principality of Nassau-Usingen . A total of 2200 guilders formed the financial basis of the hospital for the sick and poor, which was founded on February 26, 1739 by Prince Carl von Usingen-Nassau .
In 1750, the hospital moved into its building in today's Hospitalgasse before moving to the corner building of today's Zitzergasse / Klapperfeld at the end of the 18th century. In the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, health care suffered considerably. In addition to the costs of the war, it was primarily the billeting of soldiers in the hospital rooms that hindered health care. On April 30, 1814, however, a donation was made to the hospital foundation, which was intended to massively improve the hospital's financial situation. The single Usinger Maria Catharina Friederike Walther donated her property on the corner of Wirthstrasse and Klapperfeld and created the basis for a new construction. Since 1892, the nursing of the sick was carried out by deaconesses from Bad Ems , who were to perform this task until 1970. Since an expansion was necessary due to the population growth, the hospital commission acquired the neighboring building in 1889 and thereby expanded the hospital. Nevertheless, the house was ultimately too small, so that a completely new building was necessary at the current location. This was inaugurated in autumn 1912 and expanded in 1927. In 1991 the monastery hospital was transferred to the administration of the Usingen district . District Administrator Rudolf Thierbach became Chairman of the Board of Directors . In the same year, the district built an additional wing, which expanded the hospital to 140 beds. At the same time, a maternity ward was set up.
In 2001 the "Hessenklinik Usingen" merged with the Bad Homburg hospital. A modern operation container was built in 2002.
Entrance to Usinger Hospital
Back of Usinger Hospital
Side view of Usinger Hospital
Side view of Usinger Hospital
New building
A new building for 20 to 25 million euros was also built in Usingen, which is also not at the traditional location, but on the outskirts. It was moved into on February 22, 2014.
literature
- Renate Bottler: The Hochtaunus Clinics yesterday and today - a historical review. In: Yearbook Hochtaunuskreis. 2008, ZDB -ID 2580038-3 , pp. 8-16.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Josef Hospital Königstein: The future lies in old age. Taunus-Zeitung January 4, 2016
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ "Houses like a ship's hull", in: Taunuszeitung from September 15, 2010, page 22
- ↑ With a private partner 200 million advantage; in FAZ of February 8, 2011, page 41
- ↑ klinikneubau-badhomburg.de: The project ( memento of December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on January 8, 2012
- ↑ Hochtaunus-Kliniken: Usinger Klinik successfully relocated ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , hochtaunus-kliniken.de, February 22, 2014, accessed on March 16, 2017
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '23.3 " N , 8 ° 36' 26.5" E