Cantonal Hospital Obwalden

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Cantonal Hospital Obwalden
legal form Public law institution without legal personality. The sponsor is the canton of Obwalden .
founding 1856
Seat Sarnen , Switzerland
management Andreas Gattiker (Director)
Thomas Straubhaar
(President of the Supervisory Commission)
Number of employees 465 (2017)
sales 68.0 million CHF (2016)
Branch Healthcare
Website www.ksow.ch

Bed wing, June 2014
Aerial photo of the cantonal hospital from October 2012. Above right the construction site for the new bed wing.

The Obwalden Cantonal Hospital (KSOW) in Sarnen is the only hospital in the Obwalden Canton . It is an institution under public law . The KSOW ensures the acute medical and psychiatric basic care for the population of Obwalden, in psychiatry also for the Nidwalden population.

Departments

The Obwalden Cantonal Hospital is a primary care hospital with the four clinics of internal medicine , general, trauma and visceral surgery , orthopedics , gynecology and anesthesia.

Attending physicians and consultants complement the clinical offering in the fields of urology , ear, nose and throat medicine , ophthalmology , neurosurgery , gynecology , obstetrics , pediatrics , angiology , rheumatology and dentistry

Diagnosis and therapy options

The hospital offers the following diagnosis and therapy options: radiology (conventional, CT, MRI, ultrasound), laboratory, physiotherapy , pain medicine , day clinic medicine with oncology , vein therapy , gastroenterology / endoscopy, wound clinic and occupational therapy .

facts and figures

The cantonal hospital Obwalden has 63 beds, all in single and double rooms in the new bed wing of the acute hospital that went into operation in 2014. In 2016, over 4,000 inpatients were treated for the first time and 40,200 outpatient consultations were carried out. The hospital has around 500 employees, making it 57th on the list of the largest employers in Central Switzerland.

history

Already in 1525 a Spittel was officially guaranteed on the Spitalmatte in Sarnen. There the poor and needy were treated. In 1850, the canton parliament decided to replace the Spittel with a new hospital and penal institution. For the opening of the new hospital on January 22, 1856, the Sisters from the Heiligkreuz , today's Ingenbohlerinnen, came to Sarnen to take care of the patients. An expansion was planned from 1897 and opened in 1911. Between 1954 and 1956 the hospital was expanded again. In 1972, the new hospital law brought, among other things, a change to the chief physician system: chief physicians were hired for the first time against the opposition of general practitioners and took over the hospital operations. In 1996, a new treatment wing was completed for 40 million francs and the psychiatric clinic was opened.

In March 2012, the people of Obwalden approved the conversion and replacement of the bed wing for 40.4 million francs in a vote with 87.4% of the votes. The new building with 63 inpatient beds was built between August 2012 and May 2014.

Cooperations

The Obwalden Cantonal Hospital works together with the Lucerne Cantonal Hospital as the central hospital . There is a cooperation with the Schulthess Clinic in Zurich for the treatment of orthopedic patients. The collaboration with the Cantonal Hospital Nidwalden , which began in the early 2000s , was gradually terminated by mid-2015.

Until the end of 2016, the Psychiatry Clinic, founded in 1997 for the patients of Obwalden and Nidwalden, was run by the Obwalden Cantonal Hospital. As part of an optimized care concept for the three cantons of Lucerne, Obwalden and Nidwalden, this was transferred to Lucerne Psychiatry (Lups) on January 1, 2017 . Since then, Lups has continued to operate in Sarnen to the same extent as before. There is a close cooperation between KSOW and Lups in various areas.

literature

  • Romano Cuonz : Hospital history and stories - 150 years of Obwalden Cantonal Hospital . Reprint, Kantonsspital Obwalden, Sarnen 2006. Available online
  • Andreas Anderhalden: From the infirmary to the cantonal hospital. 500 years of hospital history in Obwalden. Brunner Verlag, Kriens 2015, ISBN 978-3-03727-065-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PERSPECTIVES 2018: The 100 largest employers in Central Switzerland. In: Obwaldner Zeitung , October 18, 2017
  2. ↑ The house is older than its patients. In: Neue Obwaldner Zeitung , October 18, 2006
  3. ↑ Psychiatry: Handover succeeded. In: Obwaldner Zeitung , January 20, 2017

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