Glanzing Children's Hospital

The Children's Clinic of the City of Vienna Glanzing was a hospital built between 1912 and 1914 at Glanzinggasse 35–39 in the 19th district of Döbling ( Pötzleinsdorf ).

history

Established as the "Reich Institute for Maternity and Infant Care"

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1908, a large collection was held under the motto “For the Child”. In 1909, the income of two million kroner formed the basis for the “Kaiser Jubilee Fund for Child Protection and Youth Welfare ”, conceived as the basis of a monarchy- wide child welfare organization. Karl Badstieber (1875–1942) and Eduard Thumb (1882–1914) used the funds of the fund to build the “Reichsanstalt für Mutter- und Infant care” with 100 infant beds, 24 children's beds and 25 maternal beds and on November 8, 1915 it was in operation taken. In the building, which was briefly used as a hospital in 1914, 34 boarding school students, 12 nurses and 15 employees could be accommodated.

The aim of the Glanzing Children's Clinic, founded on the proposal of Leopold Moll (1877–1933) and Theodor Escherich (1857–1911), was to reduce child mortality. Further tasks of the clinic were the training and further education of doctors, midwives and child and baby carers. It was intended as a model project that was to be extended to the entire Danube Monarchy. Leopold Moll, who was appointed university professor in 1921, also initiated maternal counseling and pregnancy care in Vienna, which Julius Tandler (1869–1936) expanded and, above all, placed it on a legal basis. The first mother counseling center in Vienna was located in what would later become the ambulance building.

"Children's Clinic of the City of Vienna - Glanzing"

Loggias on one of the clinic's buildings

In 1937 the "Kaiser Jubilee Fund for Child Protection and Youth Welfare" was converted into the "Fund of the Reich Institute for Mother and Child Welfare", which was dissolved in 1939 by the National Socialists . Simultaneously with the takeover of the Reichsanstalt by the City of Vienna , the name was changed to "Children's Clinic of the City of Vienna - Glanzing". In 1955 the liquidation of the fund was reversed and the "Fund of the Reichsanstalt für Mutter- und Kinderfürsorge" was restored as a legal entity . A usage income, which was not closed until 1962, as well as a comparison of provisions between the fund and the city of Vienna enabled the free transfer of the fund's own properties, including buildings and inventory, for the purpose of operating the children's clinic in Glanzing and a nursing school at the expense of the city of Vienna. The first neonatal intensive care center in Austria was set up here in the KK-GLA (Glanzing Children's Hospital) in 1974 .

Relocation to the Wilhelminenspital

Studies from 1993 and 1995 on the development of the Vienna Hospital Plan showed overcapacities in internal and pediatric surgical beds. Furthermore, a maximum of three perinatal centers were recommended for Vienna . Two of these locations - General Hospital of the City of Vienna (9th district) and Social Medicine Center East - Donauspital (22nd district) - were already specified. In April 1996, it was decided at the political level to integrate the intensive neonatology of the children's clinic in Glanzing with a simultaneous reduction in the number of beds in the Wilhelminenspital (16th district) and to integrate the children's nursing school, which was being converted into a general nursing school, with 90 training places in the Semmelweis - Women's clinic to be relocated (school operations started in autumn 1997).

The user agreement concluded in 1962 was terminated in mid-1999 with effect from December 31, 1999 and the area was acquired by the City of Vienna following a municipal council resolution on November 24, 1999. The closure or relocation of the Glanzing children's clinic to the Wilhelminenspital on June 9, 1999 also led to a written parliamentary question from "Doctor Helene Partik-Pablé and comrades". The answer to this question was essentially limited to the fact that the fund of the “Reichsanstalt für Mutter- und Kinderfürsorge in Wien” (Reichsanstalt für Mutter- und Kinderfürsorge in Wien) was a separate legal entity, which would not allow the clinic to continue independently and the closure of the children's clinic would correspond to the Austrian hospital plan. In April 1999, City Councilor for Health Doctor Sepp Rieder officially opened the "Department for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Children's Clinic Glanzing with Neonatology and Adolescent Medicine" in pavilion 21 of the Wilhelminenspital. The repair of the Art Nouveau pavilion and the relocation caused costs of around 60 million schillings (around 4.4 million euros).

Baby nest Glanzing in the Wilhelminenspital

In October 2000, Andreas Lischka , head of the Glanzing children's clinic and Sepp Rieder, City Councilor for Health, opened the “Glanzing baby nest in the Wilhelminenspital” based on the Hamburg baby hatch . The location on Flötzersteig ensures easy accessibility by a city bus line and the short distance to the responsible outpatient department within the hospital.

Re-use of the former Glanzing children's clinic

The area of the former Glanzing children's clinic in Döbling, which the municipality of Vienna bought in 1999, was put out to tender by the Vienna Hospital Association in 2002 . A subsidiary of Raiffeisen Bausparkasse GesmbH was awarded the contract. for 6.05 million euros.