Borkum Island Hospital
The Inselkrankenhaus Borkum is a very small hospital on the German North Sea island of Borkum .
It is considered the smallest hospital in Germany . It was built in 1964. In 1996 it was leased to the doctor Abdulkader Ali, who had to give it up in 2010 due to illness. The building was demolished because refurbishment did not seem possible and reopened in 2014 with a new clinic building. The new operator is the Leer hospital gGmbH ( Leer district hospital ).
The hospital on Gartenstrasse houses a general medical practice , an internal medical practice as well as 16 set up and 8 designated beds and takes on the sole care job for the approximately 5000 residents and a seasonally strongly fluctuating number of vacationers, seasonal workers and other guests on the island. There is also an ambulance station of the German Red Cross, a helicopter landing pad , as well as several health practices for speech therapists, physiotherapists and psychotherapists and apartments for assisted living in old age.
criticism
In 2018, residents of the hospital criticized the large number of transfer flights of patients to the mainland. The helipad is very busy and many transfer flights are not noticeably necessary. Both residents and health insurers suspected economic interests behind the many transfers. The cash registers would have to pay a high flat rate for the helicopter operations that is attractive for the Leer Clinic as the operator, but they should not check the necessity of the flights.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ NDR: Borkum residents are bothered by non-urgent transfer flights. In: rth.info. September 15, 2018, accessed April 19, 2020 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 5.5 ″ N , 6 ° 40 ′ 16.5 ″ E