Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen
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| legal form | Independent public company |
| founding | 1873 |
| Seat | St. Gallen , Switzerland |
| management | Daniel Germann ( CEO ) Guido Sutter ( Chairman of the Board ) |
| Number of employees | around 5,800 (December 31, 2017) |
| sales | 857 million CHF (2017) |
| Branch | hospital |
| Website | www.kssg.ch |
The Kantonsspital St. Gallen ( KSSG ) is the sixth largest hospital in Switzerland . As a hospital association of the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital with the three hospitals in St. Gallen , Rorschach and Flawil , it provides basic medical care for residents in this catchment area . The hospital comprises around 50 clinics, which are primarily located on the main area in downtown St. Gallen. In addition to medical work, the hospital association is the largest trainer in the canton of St. Gallen. In addition, it has a comprehensive training infrastructure. In 2017, 36,729 inpatient withdrawals and 516,621 outpatient visits were recorded, which represents an increase over the previous year.
The St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital
The Kantonsspital St. Gallen company includes the cantonal hospital in St. Gallen and the hospitals in Rorschach and Flawil as well as the obesity center in Oberwaid . The Cantonal Hospital in St. Gallen is the central hospital in Eastern Switzerland . The houses in Rorschach and Flawil are fully integrated components of the company on all levels - medically, logistically and personally. Around 800 beds are available in various specialist disciplines and almost 5,800 employees guarantee operations around the clock.
As the sixth largest and largest non-university hospital in Switzerland, the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital takes on basic care tasks for the population of the city of St. Gallen as well as central functions for the residents of the entire canton of St. Gallen and the neighboring regions. In addition, extensive educational tasks are performed at the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital and officially recognized training, further education and training courses are offered in all the medical disciplines represented. Numerous subject areas work with the highest FMH further education recognition.
The company is an active and cooperative partner of all institutions involved in health care . The St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital is also largely involved in forward-looking research projects. In 2017, 372 publications with the participation of researchers from the Cantonal Hospital were published. In terms of supply and quality, it has the standard of university facilities.
Construction activities 2016–2028
The “come together” construction project began in 2016 for more centralized patient care and optimization of the treatment process. By demolishing several smaller buildings and building new buildings 10, 07A, 07B and the children's hospital in eastern Switzerland, an infrastructure is to be created in the future that takes into account the development of medical service provision. Furthermore, the close proximity of the children's hospital is to be realized on the same area as the mother-child center. The increased demands of patients can also be satisfied by increasing the usable area. The major project should be completed in 2028 with the move into house 07B.
history
In the city of St. Gallen, healing has always been assigned a special position. The prince abbey of St. Gallen dominated the city and its tradition. This also included the Benedictine rule, which states that nursing is one of "the noble duties of monks" . The St. Gallen monastery plan from 820 shows a detailed hospital department inside the monastery and an associated medicinal herb garden. It is also known that Abbot Otmar built a hospital for the sick and sick pilgrims not very far from the monastery . The further fate of this hospital is not known. It probably fell victim to the monastery fire in 937 or was destroyed by the Hungarian attack. In the northwest of the monastery area, however, the Bruederhus was opened as a new hospital, which was then taken over by the city in 1532 and ceased to exist .
In the later Middle Ages , the establishment of hospitals was an honor. This is how the Heiliggeistspital came into being in 1228 in the name of the knight Ulrich von Singenberg and the well-heeled citizen Ulrich Blarer .
The Seelhaus for pilgrims, the poor and the sick
The so-called Seelhaus , founded in 1503, was a place of refuge for pilgrims, the poor and the sick. Over the centuries, it was increasingly converted into a hospital where surgical interventions were also carried out. It was mainly housed by strangers and servants of the citizens who had settled in the city. Since the old Seelhaus had become dilapidated in the course of modern times , the council sold it in 1820 and bought a larger building for the Seelhaus occupants. This institution was mostly referred to as an external hospital and was the forerunner of today's St.Gallen Cantonal Hospital.
The external hospital - the forerunner of the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital
In Bed Hospital modern medical treatments were carried out early on. In 1847 , the surgeon of the time used ether or chloroform for surgical interventions , which at that time were only just being introduced into medical practice. Even for curing scabies the "sick father" used Ehrenzeller addition to the sweat box a self verfertigte itch soap, which reduced the cure to many days.
The family doctor, C. Wegelin, who succeeded Kesseler and W. Steinlin, also applied for an outpatient clinic in November . It was established in 1863 and has proven itself.
New building of the foreign hospital
Space in the existing foreign hospital became increasingly scarce due to the growth of the city's population after 1850, and it no longer met the sanitary requirements. It was supposed to be expanded with a new building and there was an initial effort to convert the hospital into a canton hospital in order to improve nursing care in the canton. But the cantonal government did not go into it. Nevertheless, the new building was set in motion under the special commission of Mr. Züblin, architect Simon, architect Kessler and doctors Steinlin and Wegelin.
The contested conversion of the external hospital into a cantonal hospital
After the founding of the Canton of St. Gallen around 1803, the Sanitary Commission proposed the creation of a cantonal institution in 1808. But the endeavor to establish charitable institutions and procedures subsided noticeably at this time and many obstacles were put in the way of the establishment of a St. Gallen cantonal hospital.
Werner Steinlin and Carl Wegelin took up the proposal for the construction of a St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital for the first time in 1858. But this proposal was also rejected. In 1862 J. Laurenz Sonderegger tried to set up a St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital. Despite recurring defeats, Sonderegger did not give up and fought tirelessly with new letters and letters until it finally happened on July 4, 1869 and the citizens' assembly as the last instance still approved the implementation of a St. Gallen cantonal hospital, which led to the founding of the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen in 1873.
Founding of the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital and the first few years
The Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen decided early on to offer comprehensive professional care. This is shown by the purchase of the entire Spitalswiese for expansion in later years. The St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital already had a modern infrastructure when it was founded in 1873. It was the second building in Switzerland to be equipped with central heating . The St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital is still one of the most modern and innovative hospitals in Switzerland. The practicing doctors in St. Gallen treated a wide range of diseases early on. They did this at an advanced level, so the surgical wound treatment was already carried out under antiseptic conditions. After 15 years, the position of the canton hospital in the medical landscape of the canton of St. Gallen had consolidated and the trust in the hospital was anchored in a broad section of the population.
Changes until 1917
Due to the steady growth in the number of patients and employees at the canton hospital, there was a need for greater organization. This was followed by a medical director who advised the hospital commission and was also the chief physician of a department. Visiting rules were also introduced and house rules were drawn up in which rights and obligations were described in detail. The building commission began to carry out regular hygiene checks in order to enforce a health standard in the clinics and the kitchen. With the increasing number of doctors from the University Hospital Zurich, who were used to a large number of assistant doctors, the number of doctors at the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen also increased. This also provides the junior doctors with the opportunity to receive high-quality training. Since the population of St. Gallen was afflicted by numerous epidemics in the 1990s, the proximity of a large, modern hospital proved its worth.
A new era
After 1917 the transition to today's organizational form began. Instead of a single chief physician who heads the hospital as director, the conference of chief physicians was founded. The canton hospital participated in the increasing formation of associations across Switzerland. The following years saw further innovations also in the personnel area. The 48-hour week was introduced for all hospital staff, but this was unrealistic for certain staff due to the amount of work. Additional properties were added to the hospital network, as the number of technologies such as X-ray systems and the number of patients rose steadily.
See also
- Canton of St. Gallen , history of the canton of St. Gallen , diocese of St. Gallen , children's hospital in eastern Switzerland
Literature & sources
- Carl Wegelin: The History of the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen . Fehr, St. Gallen 1953.
- Eva-Maria Schweiwiller-Lorber: Kantonsspital St.Gallen Chronicle 1989-2009. Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen 2011.
- Hubert Patscheider: The St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital 1953–1988 . State Archive and Stiftsarchiv (SGKG 20), St. Gallen 1991. ISBN 3-908048-17-6
- Rita M. Fritschi: "Poor Lazarus in the cultural state". The establishment and the first years of operation of the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital 1845–1880 . State Archive and Stiftsarchiv (SGKG 29), St. Gallen 1997. ISBN 3-908048-33-8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Most important facts 2017. Retrieved on June 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Key figures 2017. Accessed on June 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Most important facts 2017. Accessed June 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Most important facts 2017. Retrieved on June 13, 2018 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '50 " N , 9 ° 23' 23" E ; CH1903: seven hundred forty-seven thousand one hundred eighty-eight / 255136