Catholic Hospital Association Weser-Egge
| Catholic Hospital Association Weser-Egge | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Profit company |
| founding | October 1, 2005 |
| Seat | Höxter |
| management | Christian Jostes (Managing Director) Marcel Giefers (Chairman of the Board of Directors) |
| Number of employees | 2736 |
| sales | 152.3 million euros (group turnover) |
| Branch | Healthcare |
| Website | http://www.khwe.de/ |
| Status: 2020 | |
The Katholische Hospitalvereinigung Weser-Egge (KHWE) is a non-profit company responsible for several health facilities in the Höxter district with a central administration in Brakel . The company was founded by the articles of association of July 21, 2005 as the holding company of the two supporting companies St. Ansgar- and St. Rochus - Kliniken gGmbH and the Catholic Hospitals Bad Driburg - Brakel gGmbH and entered in the commercial register at the Paderborn District Court on October 27, 2005 . The GmbH is one of the tax-privileged corporations.
Shareholder
The shareholders of the holding company are the Catholic parishes of St. Nikolai in Höxter, St. Marien in Steinheim, St. Johannes Baptist in Beverungen, St. Peter and Paul in Bad Driburg, St. Michael in Brakel and the Cura - consulting and investment company for social Institutions mbH in Dortmund, which in turn belongs to the Schleden'sche Capuzinessen Benefician Paderborn Foundation. The Schleden Foundation is a church foundation under private law, whose sole director is the respective vicar general of the Archdiocese of Paderborn .
Pastor Wilhelm Koch from the parish of St. Michael in Brakel is currently chairman of the shareholders' meeting.
Management and Board of Directors
The Board of Directors has 12 members. In addition to the district administrator of the Höxter district, the managing director of the CURA consulting and investment company for social institutions.
When KHWE was founded in 2005, Reinhard Spieß and Theo Franke became managing directors of the company. After Franke left, Spieß became sole managing director. On April 1, 2019, he handed over the management to Christian Jostes.
Business areas
The Catholic Hospital Association Weser-Egge (KHWE) operates a plan hospital with four locations in the Höxter district, which is known as the Weser-Egge Clinic. There are also five senior citizens' homes, four Caritas care stations for outpatient care and an education center for health professions. Subsidiaries are the Medical Supply Center Weser-Egge gGmbH (MVZ) and KWE-Service GmbH. The central administration is in Brakel. The company currently employs over 2,700 people.
Weser-Egge Clinic
The Weser-Egge Clinic has facilities at four locations in the Höxter district with around 863 hospital beds, 25 specialist clinics and around 1,480 employees. The clinic includes the St. Ansgar Hospital in Höxter, the St. Josef Hospital in Bad Driburg, the St. Rochus Hospital in Steinheim and the St. Vincenz Hospital in Brakel.
The forerunners of individual hospital establishments go back to 1304 and are still closely linked to the regional Catholic parishes to this day. The Katholische Hospitalvereinigung Weser-Egge gGmbH was founded on October 1st, 2005 as a holding company of the two supporting companies St. Ansgar- and St. Rochus-Kliniken gGmbH and the Catholic Hospitals Bad Driburg-Brakel gGmbH. In 2012, the Brakel and Bad Driburg facilities were transferred to the St. Ansgar and St. Rochus Clinics gGmbH.
St. Ansgar Hospital Höxter
The St. Ansgar Hospital Höxter is the largest location of the Klinikum Weser-Egge with 375 beds. The center for internal medicine there consists of the areas of cardiology, gastroenterology and oncology. The Medical Clinic I - Cardiology / Angiology - is certified as a Chest Pain Unit for the acute care of heart attacks, the Clinic for Neurology as a Stroke Unit for the acute care of strokes. Another focus is minimally invasive surgery with the clinics for general and vascular surgery. Minimally invasive interventions are also performed in the women's clinic, which specializes in urogynecology, among other things. In addition, the women's clinic cooperates in the field of obstetrics on a mother-child ward with the clinic for children and adolescent medicine. Both clinics together form a perinatal focus. The urology department also specializes in pediatric urology.
Overview of the clinics and institutes in the St. Ansgar Hospital: Anaesthesiology, women's clinic, vascular surgery and endovascular surgery, pediatric and adolescent medicine, medical clinic I - cardiology / angiology, medical clinic II - gastroenterology / hepatology, medical clinic III - oncology, neurology, radiology , Radiotherapy, urology and pediatric urology, visceral and minimally invasive surgery
history
In 1218 the knight Konrad von Boffzen built the Heilig-Geist-Hospital in Höxter. He was inspired by the hospital “S. Spirit ”, which he noticed during a crusade in Rome . It was founded in dependence on the famous Arch Brotherhood of Santo Spirito in Sassia . The hospital in Höxter consisted of a hospice , a chapel and a churchyard and was operated in the Heiligegeiststraße area until 1850. The St. Nikolai Hospital started operations in 1850. From 1850 to 1878 first in today's Bachstrasse, from 1878 to 1978 in a former military hospital in Grubestrasse 23. From 1910 to 1978 a Protestant hospital was operated in parallel on Bismarckstrasse.
The location at Brenkhäuser Strasse 71 was put into operation in 1978 and replaced the other two houses. The planning for the construction began in 1966 by the operators of the St. Nikolai Hospital. On the part of politics, however, only one hospital was considered worthy of support for Höxter, so that the Protestant and Catholic operators had to develop a joint concept for operating a house. On February 12, 1969, a joint agreement between the parishes involved was signed. The committee for steering the institution consisted of the parish dean of the St. Nikolai parish and three representatives as well as the evangelical parish of Höxter. Construction began in August 1974.
One of the largest construction measures to date is the complete redesign of the entrance area and the hospital driveway. In 2010 a specialist center was built next to the St. Ansgar Hospital, which today also houses the MVZ Weser-Egge Höxter. In 2013 a new, modern central ambulance was set up.
The most important medical developments include the establishment of a specialist department for neurology in 2006, the establishment of the Center for Internal Medicine with the fields of cardiology and gastroenterology in 2007, the establishment of special departments for oncology and radiation therapy in 2010 and 2012, and expansion of surgery to a vascular surgery department in 2016.
In 2017, the merger of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery from Höxter to the Brakel location led to protests among citizens and the citizens' initiative "Trauma Surgery Immediately Back to Höxter" was founded and carried out several demonstrations. Mayor Alexander Fischer and several politicians from the Höxter council also publicly criticized the KHWE management. In April 2018, around 45 companies also joined in a petition calling for trauma surgery to return to the Höxter site.
St. Josef Hospital Bad Driburg
The first open psychiatry in North Rhine-Westphalia was opened at the St. Josef Hospital Bad Driburg site in the 1980s. Even today the clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy is an integral part of the house.
Another focus is surgery: General surgery specializes, among other things, in minimally invasive operations and, as an obesity center, offers help for obese patients. Vascular surgery has focused, among other things, on the care of chronic wounds, for example of diabetes patients. In the area of internal medicine, the Medical Clinic I primarily cares for cardiological patients. The Medical Clinic II has specialized in the areas of gastroenterology and diabetology.
Overview of the clinics and institutes at St. Josef Hospital: General and visceral surgery, vascular surgery, Medical Clinic I - Cardiology / Intensive Care Medicine / General Internal Medicine, Medical Clinic II - Gastroenterology / Diabetology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Radiology
history
In 1864, the sisters of the Order of the Poor Maidservants of Jesus Christ (ADJC) from the mother house in Dernbach (Westerwald) began to serve the sick in Bad Driburg under modest circumstances. In 1879 the Hotel Kothe was bought by the Catholic Church and was run as an affiliated hospital under the name "Josephinum". For many decades the sick and injured found help and care in the “Josephinum”. In the wars it served as a hospital. Generations of doctors, the sisters of the Order of the Poor, maidservants of Jesus Christ and other nursing staff served in this house. But the inadequacies, the difficult working conditions and the susceptibility to repairs of the Josephinum increased over the years, so that the parish of St. Peter and Paul, Bad Driburg, decided to plan a new building.
The history of the St. Josef Hospital began in September 1964 with the laying of the foundation stone for the new hospital in Bad Driburg. At a cost of around DM 11 million, the new building on Weberhöhe was built in a construction period of around three years. On March 20, 1967, the last patients left the old “Josephinum” hospital in the city center, which was finally torn down as part of the city center renovation.
The official inauguration took place in May 1967, at that time with the specialist departments of surgery, internal medicine with the special department of liver clinic, gynecology and obstetrics as well as an ear, nose and throat department. In 1968 a department for clinical psychiatry was set up, which had a model character and was run nationwide as the first open psychiatric department in a general hospital.
In the following years the St. Josef Hospital continued to develop with the expansion of an intensive care unit and the establishment of a psychiatric day clinic. In 1979 the entire hospital building was increased and the psychiatry department moved to the top floor. After around twenty years, renovation measures were carried out on the exterior facade. The St. Josef Hospital got a new look from the mid-1980s with the clinkering of the building and the installation of new windows. At the end of the 1990s, interior renovations continued. From 1997 the modernization of the individual wards and the hospital kitchen began.
In 2001 the central laboratory was set up, which today still supplies three hospitals and six rehabilitation clinics with its services. The entrance area, the garden and the cafeteria have all been redesigned. A total of 10 million euros were invested in funding and own funds between 1995 and 2005. In 2005 the St. Josef Hospital became the sponsor of the newly founded holding company "Katholische Hospitalvereinigung Weser-Egge gGmbH" (KHWE), which drove further medical and structural measures. In 2007, for example, the surgical department was rebuilt and expanded for 3.5 million euros and the psychiatric department renovated for 4.1 million euros. In 2017, internal medicine was further expanded with the division into the departments Medical Clinic I (focus: cardiology) and Medical Clinic II (focus: gastroenterology) as well as the construction of a left-heart catheter measuring station.
St. Rochus Hospital
The St. Rochus Hospital Steinheim specializes in internal medicine and geriatric medicine. The department for acute geriatrics and internal geriatric medicine has, among other things, a focus on geriatric surgery, i. H. in the post-operative follow-up care of older, multiple and chronically ill patients. A day clinic is also connected. The St. Rochus Seniorenhaus Steinheim is in the immediate vicinity.
history
The institution is named after the patron saint of the city of Steinheim, Rochus von Montpellier . In 1637 the mayor and the council of the town of Steinheim, which had already been afflicted four times by the plague, decided to hold a procession and a holiday on the name day of St. Rochus on August 16, now and forever, and to do good to the poor . This should save the city from diseases in the future.
On July 10, 1858, the first Rochus Hospital in Steinheim was built in Wallstrasse. At times up to 30 patients were cared for and the limited capacity of the house led to a new building in Spitalstrasse. This could accommodate 60 patients and was inaugurated on October 12, 1892. The running of the houses was largely dependent on the self-sacrificing work of the Sisters of the Poor Maidservants of Jesus Christ (ADJC).
In 1936, a full-time chief physician, the surgeon Franz Lüttich from Lügde, was won over for the first time. With the continuous increase in the need for hospital treatment, the call for a new hospital became loud. When the nuns were ordered back to their mother house in 1964, the rising personnel costs led to great losses.
The decision to build today's St. Rochus Hospital was made on July 10, 1964, construction began on October 7, 1971. The house was consecrated on January 6, 1975 by the Paderborn auxiliary bishop Nordhues. At that time it had 170 beds with departments for internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and obstetrics. In 2009, a generous donation from entrepreneurs from Steinheim made it possible to purchase a computer tomograph . In place of the surgical department, a new clinic for acute geriatrics was established in the St. Rochus Hospital in 2012 , in which, in particular, patients aged 70 and over from the entire Höxter district and the neighboring Lippe district, depending on their general condition and previous illnesses, are treated across disciplines become.
St. Vincenz Hospital Brakel
The St. Vincenz Hospital Brakel specializes in the fields of orthopedics and trauma surgery, rheumatology, pain medicine and psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, rheumatology, pain medicine. The orthopedic clinic is certified as an endoprosthetics center for maximum care; over 850 major joint operations are performed here every year. In addition to comprehensive orthopedic care, an extended trauma surgery outpatient department and trauma surgery inpatient treatment are offered. All rheumatic diseases are diagnosed and treated in the Rheumatology Clinic. The Clinic for Pain Medicine and the new Clinic for Psychosomatics also have day clinic offers for patients.
history
Today's St. Vincenz Hospital Brakel has its roots in the Heilig-Geist-Hospital. The altar of the hospital chapel was consecrated on December 25, 1302 by Bishop Otto von Paderborn. The hospital is first mentioned in a document of arbitration dated June 4, 1304.
The document of Bishop Otto von Paderborn strengthens the rights of Pastor Bertholdus von Berg from Brakel and regulates, among other things, the distribution of donated funds during and after the masses. In 1306 the hospital was donated to the city of Brakel after presumably persistent disagreements between the administrator and the pastor Bertholdus.
The city of Brakel and the citizens were henceforth responsible for equipping the hospital, the pastor retained spiritual competence in all matters. The chapel and the hospital, which were in the Ostheimer Strasse, Klosterstrasse and Antoniusgasse areas, were later built over by the Capuchin monastery from 1652 and a new church from 1715. The tasks of a hospital at that time were significantly more extensive than they are today. In addition to feeding the poor and providing short-term accommodation for those passing through, one of the tasks of the hospital was the permanent admission of old or sick people who could buy into the hospital or had to be looked after by the city. The location of a subsequent hospital in the period from 1652 to 1810 has not been precisely clarified, but a location in the vicinity of the hospital garden is assumed. During this time, not only were sick people cared for in the hospital, but citizens of the city bought themselves into the hospital to spend their old age there. Orphans and poor people were also housed there. The comfort offered by the accommodation corresponded to the social status and the assets brought in. The feeding of the poor through the distribution of bread for the poor was also organized from the hospital. The hospital was abandoned around 1820.
The St. Vincenz Hospital Brakel was founded in 1849 and operated at Ostheimer Tor until 1973. During this time, the building was expanded and modernized several times and replaced in 1973 by the new building at the current location of the St. Vincenz Hospital, Danziger Straße in Brakel.
This new building has also been regularly modernized to this day. The most important medical developments include the establishment of a specialist department for rheumatology (2006) as well as specialist clinics for pain medicine (2014) and psychosomatics (2016). The clinic for trauma surgery at the Weser-Egge Clinic has also been located in Brakel since the beginning of 2017.
Retirement homes
The KHWE operates five retirement homes (care facilities for the elderly) in the Höxter district with a total of 439 care places.
St. Rochus Retirement Home Steinheim
The St. Rochus Seniorenhaus Steinheim was moved into on June 4, 1994. It was created from a converted nurses' house at the rear of the St. Rochus Hospital and is connected to it by a corridor.
St. Nikolai Retirement Home Höxter
The St. Nikolai Seniorenhaus Höxter is the KHWE's largest senior facility. On December 1, 1977, before the actual conversion to a senior citizens' home, the conversion of the former St. Nikolai Hospital began. The final new building and extension was put into operation in April 1981.
St. Antonius Retirement Home Brakel
The St. Antonius Seniorenhaus Brakel was built in the area of the former hospital on historical land. In 1977 it opened its doors to residents.
St. Josef Seniorenhaus Bökendorf
The St. Josef Seniorenhaus Bökendorf was originally an old monastery complex. In 1872 it was rededicated as a home for charitable purposes. In 1954 the building was expanded with a side wing. In 1998 the St. Josef Seniorenhaus was completely rebuilt, whereby care was taken to preserve the original character.
St. Johannes Baptist Retirement Home Beverungen
The house was opened in 1871 as the St. Johannes Hospital of the Catholic parish of St. Johannes Baptist. The house was expanded in 1895, 1905, 1928 and 1948. In the 1960s the house ran into economic difficulties due to its size. The city and the associations tried to support the house for a long time until it finally ceased operations in 1985. From 1989 the house was used to accommodate ethnic repatriates. The house was reopened on June 30, 1994 as a senior citizens' home.
Caritas care stations for outpatient care
The Caritas care stations of the KHWE in the Höxter district are divided into four regions: Northern region with the catchment area Steinheim, Nieheim, Schieder-Schwalenberg and Marienmünster as well as the surrounding villages; Central region with the catchment area Beverungen, Bad Driburg and Brakel as well as surrounding villages; Region East with the catchment area Höxter and surrounding villages, Region South with the catchment area Warburg, Borgentreich and Willebadessen and surrounding villages.
Medical care center Weser-Egge Höxter (MVZ)
The MVZ Weser-Egge Höxter is a subsidiary of the KHWE and was founded in September 2010 as the Medical Care Center for Radiotherapy and Oncology Höxter gGmbH and renamed in January 2016 and is now an outpatient medical care facility. It offers outpatient medical services in the fields of radiology, oncology, radiation therapy, pediatric and adolescent medicine and orthopedics (Brakel branch). The technical interlinking with the clinics and centers of the Klinikum Weser-Egge is just as close as the spatial one.
Weser-Egge Education Center (BZWE)
At the Weser-Egge training center in Brakel, the KHWE offers three-year training as a nurse and one-year training as a nursing assistant. Together with the Steinbeis-Transfer-Institut NRW, it is possible to study "Bachelor of Arts in Healthcare" while training or working. The BZWE also provides an extensive range of advanced and advanced training courses for KHWE employees and other care workers in the region.
KWE service
The subsidiary KWE-Service GmbH was founded in March 2017 with its headquarters in Brakel and is responsible for providing assistance and service, especially in the areas of catering, housekeeping and cleaning as well as other services (e.g. surveillance, transport and administration ) in particular responsible for hospital and nursing home operations. In 2017 the holding's new central hospital kitchen was inaugurated at the Steinheim location.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 150 years of hospital history in Höxter (2000). Rolf Mertens, ESC self-publisher Calenberg: Warburg. ISBN 3-932121-05-8
- ↑ 700 years of Brakel Hospital (2004). Zymer, B .; Ströhmer, M .; Linde, R .; Lehmann, C. Editor: Catholic Parish Office St. Michael Brakel, Pastor Wilhelm Koch. ISBN 3-934802-18-4
- ↑ BI Höxter plans another demonstration - incomprehension in the factions-trauma surgery dispute: Spieß cancels appearance in the council. In: westfalen-blatt.de . October 10, 2017, accessed March 16, 2019 .
- ^ Controversy over trauma surgery: Mayor annoyed by sudden "invitation" to Brakel. BI calls for the second demo. In: westfalen-blatt.de . October 14, 2017, accessed March 16, 2019 .
- ↑ KHWE boss Spieß: "It all belongs to Brakel" - Prof. Bader criticizes the dissolution of functioning structures in Höxter - dispute over trauma surgery: duel in the district council. In: westfalen-blatt.de . November 9, 2017, accessed March 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Öxteraner citizens' initiative receives mail from the state government - BI collects patient case studies - 45 companies want trauma surgery back. In: westfalen-blatt.de . April 14, 2018, accessed March 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Heinz Becker hands over a generous donation , NW June 29, 2009, accessed in February 2016.