Baselland Cantonal Hospital

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Baselland Cantonal Hospital
legal form Public law institution
founding 2012
Seat Liestal , Laufen and Binningen
management
  • Jürg Aebi, CEO
Number of employees 3,475 (December 31, 2017)
sales 448.7 million CHF (2017)
Branch hospital
Website www.ksbl.ch
As of December 31, 2017

The Kantonsspital Baselland ( KSBL ) is an institution under public law of the canton of Basel-Landschaft and was created in March 2012 through the amalgamation of the Liestal Cantonal Hospital , the Laufen Cantonal Hospital and the Bruderholzspital in Binningen .

The three hospitals together have three delivery rooms , 14 operating theaters and 567 beds (as of 2017).

Clinics and Institutes

The three hospitals offer the following clinics and institutes:

history

In 2012, the hospital operations were spun off from the cantonal administration and the "Kantonsspital Baselland KSBL" was created as an independent public-law institution with a board of directors through the merger of the previously integrated hospitals Liestal, Bruderholz and Laufen .

Since the closure of the Breitenbach District Hospital, which is only 3.7 km away , the Laufen Cantonal Hospital has experienced an upswing. However, the future was also uncertain, as the University Hospital Basel (USB) (661 beds) and the Kantonsspital Bruderholz (398 beds) competed for patients. Therefore, in 2018 a state treaty was signed between the USB and the KSBL to form a joint hospital group.

The hospital group proposed to merge the USB and KSBL and to found a cross-cantonal university hospital in Northwestern Switzerland. Although the parliaments of the cantons of Basel-Landschaft and Basel-Stadt voted in favor, the electorate rejected the project on February 10, 2019 at the ballot box. In Basel-Stadt 56% said no (with a participation of 49%) and in Basel-Landschaft 67% said yes (with a participation of 38%). The merger failed because the voters of both cantons would have had to approve .

Liestal Cantonal Hospital

As early as the 13th century, there is said to have been an "upper hospital" within the city walls of Liestal - as a hostel for travelers, pilgrims and beggars, and from the 15th century onwards in particular as a beneficiary for the local population. In the 14th century, the “Lower Hospital” was built as a hospital for lepers below the city walls . In 1602 the “Obere Spital” and in 1769 the “Lower Spital” were rebuilt. Although the "Obere Spital" was still relocated in 1816, the two - the "Upper" and "Lower" - were merged in 1834 as the "Landarmenspital" at the location of the "Lower Hospital".

In 1840, the hospital doctor Jakob Jenny and the Liestal district doctor Johann Jakob Gutzwiller reported to the Basel sanitary commission about the grotesque condition of the hospital and asked for a new building. Two years later, the commission made an urgent request to the government council for an expansion of the hospital. It was not until 1851 that the district administrator approved the construction of a new hospital (so-called beneficiary house), which was opened in 1854 and was designed for 360 people.

Due to the rapidly developing population, the space in the new building was also not enough. Nevertheless, the administrative commission of the church, school and rural poor manor rejected the proposals of the sanitary council in 1871 for financial reasons. The volunteer inspector for the poor, Birmann, took the initiative: the plans commissioned privately were convincing at a meeting of the government council, the medical council and the administrative commission in September 1871. On July 22, 1877, the first Baselbiet hospital according to today's understanding was inaugurated with 78 sick and staff beds.

Although renovations were ongoing - including the opening of a segregation house for infectious diseases in 1894 and the addition of two operating theaters in 1906 - and the capacity could therefore be gradually increased to 139 beds, the space was increasingly lacking. The situation worsened significantly when the canton of Basel-Stadt raised hospital taxes for non-residents in 1947 - these were in particular Basel bidders - and so fewer Basel bidders, especially from the Arlesheim district , went to the city of Basel, but to Liestal.

In 1951, the “Expert Commission for Assessment of the Hospital Construction Question” therefore recommended a construction program with two hospitals in Liestal and on the Bruderholz with 230 beds each. The district administrator approved this plan and demanded negotiations from the government council with its counterpart in Basel-Stadt. As a result, in 1952 the «Joint Expert Commission for Hospital Issues» was founded by the two cantonal governments. Despite the envisaged construction program in 1954 was a Durisol - barracks as temporary with 53 beds - as considered taking sanatorium ore mountain in Langenbruck put into operation. In 1957, the "Law on the Hospital System" was adopted and a loan of 28.5 million Swiss francs was granted for a new building with 315 beds, a nursing home for 130 sisters, a staff house with 72 beds for the administrative staff, and a central laundry and a district heating plant . After construction began in 1958, the building was opened in 1962.

The 40-year-old building had to be renovated from 1998 to 2002, and in 1998 a new ward 2 and a surgical outpatient clinic were inaugurated.

Canton Hospital Laufen

The Cantonal Hospital in Laufen (2014)

In Laufen a "Spitalhäuslin" is said to have been built as early as 1706 and a "Spithälin" in 1754; however, the buildings were more - as in Liestal - a place for the chronically ill, lepers, madmen and benefactors.

Joseph Conrad Gabriel Feninger , born in Laufen in 1785, studied medicine in Strasbourg and Paris and later became a medical officer in the Napoleonic army. After his political career - he was Bernese councilor and governor - he died in 1869, childless and without a wife, and donated a large part of his fortune and his house to the district of Laufen and determined that it should be used to run a hospital. He decreed that both men and women should be treated in this house and that those in need should have priority in medical care.

On May 2, 1872, the Feninger Hospital with five beds in the old town started operations. Initially, nursing was provided jointly by Protestant deaconess nurses from Bern and Catholic hospital nurses from Menzingen . They were replaced in 1894 by Ingenbohl sisters , who also served at the new location until 1977. In 1907 - for reasons of space - the first plans for the new building were developed, but the district that was responsible for the administration of the hospital could only bring itself to renovations. During the First World War, the Feninger Hospital received its first operating theater. The Board of Directors decided on 30 June 1931 a new building on a "dust-free, quiet, sunny place" outside the old town running. The town council made the land available and the Gerster Roth Foundation, which belongs to the ceramic industry in Laufen , laid the financial basis for a new building in 1942: thirteen years later - on October 18, 1953 - the new Feninger Hospital was opened on Maiersacker opened, with space for 130 patients and 20 newborns.

In the 1980s and 1990s, extensions were built. An underground hospital with a total of 248 beds and several operating theaters was built north of the hospital. A geriatric center was built on the south side. On the other hand, the nurses' house near the primary school was torn down. The underground hospital now serves as a club and practice room for the Samaritan Association. Since the foundation of the canton of Jura in 1978, the Bernese Laufental was separated from the rest of the canton. After the canton changed to Baselland on January 1, 1994, the hospital was redimensioned several times, but its status was upgraded. It became the cantonal hospital and was in principle on a par with the former Liestal cantonal hospital and the Bruderholz.

Due to the low number of cases, the gynecology and obstetrics department in Laufen was closed in 2014.

  • The former Feninger Hospital - today the city administration of Laufen

  • Memorial plaque for Joseph Feninger at St. Martin's Chapel

Bruderholzspital

The Bruderholzspital (2018)

Due to the increasing population in the canton of Basel-Landschaft and waiting lists in the hospitals of Laufen and Liestal, the joint expert commission for hospital issues BS / BL applied in 1962 to start planning a district hospital in the lower part of the canton ( Birseck ). In 1965, at the request of the government council , the district administrator passed a preliminary project for a hospital in the Bruderholz region with around 520 beds. In 1968, the recommendation of the technical commission followed that the first construction stage should be started as soon as possible; One year later - on January 9, 1969 - the district administrator passed a building loan for 112.5 million Swiss francs with 64 votes to 0 . On October 15, 1973, the lovingly named "Bruderholz", which ultimately costs around 160 million Swiss francs, was opened and was fully operational by 1975.

In 1996, the University of Basel appointed the then head physician at the Bruderholzspital, Hans Kummer, as full professor of internal medicine , which led to the Bruderholzspital becoming the first university clinic outside the canton of Basel-Stadt . In 2016 the women's clinic was closed; the Bethesda Hospital in Basel took over a large part of the staff and the University Hospital Basel also increased its capacities. With 67.2% of the votes, the Bruderholz initiative, which would have stipulated the receipt of an “extended basic care” at the Bruderholz location in the hospital law of the canton of Basel-Landschaft, was rejected in 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annual Report 2017 (PDF; 842 kB) Kantonsspital Baselland, p. 2 , accessed on May 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Key figures for Swiss hospitals. (PDF) Federal Statistical Office , 2017, pp. 189/190 , accessed on May 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Annual Report 2017 (PDF; 842 kB) Kantonsspital Baselland, p. 10 , accessed on May 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ sda: Basel government does not want to sell the canton hospital. In: Basellandschaftliche Zeitung. November 8, 2017. Retrieved May 29, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Hospital history of the canton of Basel-Landschaft: The milestones. Kantonsspital Baselland (KSBL), accessed on May 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ sda / gotl; schj: Big hospital merger burst. In: SRF voting studio. February 10, 2019, accessed May 26, 2019 .
  7. ^ The Liestal location: First hospitals. Kantonsspital Baselland (KSBL), accessed on May 26, 2019 .
  8. ^ The Liestal site: Chronic overcrowding and liberation. Kantonsspital Baselland (KSBL), accessed on May 26, 2019 .
  9. ^ The Liestal site: Provisional solutions and professionalization. Kantonsspital Baselland (KSBL), accessed on May 26, 2019 .
  10. ^ The Liestal location: central and university hospital. Kantonsspital Baselland (KSBL), accessed on May 26, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b c The Laufen location: a donated hospital. Kantonsspital Baselland (KSBL), accessed on May 26, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Christoph Meier: Feninger, Joseph Conrad Gabriel. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., Accessed on May 26, 2019.
  13. ^ The Laufen location: growth and new construction. Kantonsspital Baselland (KSBL), accessed on May 26, 2019 .
  14. ↑ The location of Bruderholz: both town and country wanted the Bruderholz. Kantonsspital Baselland (KSBL), accessed on May 26, 2019 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '16.9 "  N , 7 ° 43' 52.2"  E ; CH1903:  622 047  /  259 736