Hohenems State Hospital

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Hohenems State Hospital
Sponsorship Vorarlberg hospital operating company
place Hohenems
state Vorarlberg
Country Austria
Coordinates 47 ° 21 '46 "  N , 9 ° 40' 53"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '46 "  N , 9 ° 40' 53"  E
beds 128
founding 1908
Website Hohenems State Hospital
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The old Empress Elisabeth Hospital (2012)
New state hospital shortly after completion (1976)

The Landeskrankenhaus Hohenems is a hospital in the Austrian city ​​of Hohenems in Vorarlberg . The new building was opened in 1974.

Old hospital

The old hospital, now a listed building , with the former name Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Krankenhaus was financed mainly through donations and built from 1906 to 1908 according to plans by the architect Hanns Kornberger using architectural elements of Art Nouveau and traditionalism. After a period of vacancy, the buildings were used as a palliative care ward.

New hospital

The New Hospital was built right next to the Old Hospital until 1974.

Medical departments
  • anesthesia
  • Internal medicine and intensive care medicine
  • Pulmonology
  • Day surgery
  • Specialized in conservative orthopedics
  • Department of Psychosomatic Medicine
Consultation compartments
  • radiology
  • Orthopedics
  • eyes
  • ENT
  • dermatology
  • Neurology / Psychiatry
Other facilities
  • operating room
  • Palliative care unit

In the course of the spread of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic , the focus on caring for corona patients in Vorarlberg was in the Hohenems and Bludenz hospitals .

Web links

Commons : Landeskrankenhaus Hohenems  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Altes Krankenhaus (Hohenems)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The palliative care unit at the LKH Hohenems is celebrating its tenth anniversary lkhh.at, Open Day, March 2, 2013
  2. Exemplary refurbished buildings awarded City of Hohenems, March 8, 2013
  3. ^ Thomas Kopf: The rescue of the ensemble "Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Krankenhaus Hohenems". In: News from the Monument Protection Initiative , 13/2013, pp. 26–27.
  4. LKH Bludenz: Temporarily no childbirth [19. March 2020]