Clinics of the City of Cologne

Clinics of the City of Cologne
Sponsorship	public
place	Cologne
state	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 58 '5 "  N , 7 ° 3' 26"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '5 "  N , 7 ° 3' 26"  E
Managing directors	Holger Baumann (ad interim)
beds	circa 1400
Employee	approx. 4300
including doctors	approx. 650
founding	1805 (since 2004 gGmbH )
Website	www.kliniken-koeln.de

The Clinics of the City of Cologne gGmbH are a health care provider with three hospitals in Cologne and a history spanning more than 200 years. In addition to the University Clinic in Cologne , the City of Cologne's clinics provide the largest range of medical services in the region. Around 155,000 outpatients and 63,000 inpatients are treated annually. This makes the clinics of the city of Cologne one of the largest providers of inpatient health services in Cologne. The clinic company has 1,400 beds and employs more than 4,300 people.

organization

The Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH comprises three hospitals in Cologne, which are managed by a joint central administration at the Holweide location . They are among the largest municipal hospitals in Germany. Going back to a council resolution in March 2004, in July 2004 the city's own operation became the non-profit GmbH (gGmbH) Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH with the city of Cologne as the sole shareholder. The company was thus partially privatized. In 2014, the Cologne City Council sent eight people to the Supervisory Board. The workforce is represented by four people. All three parts of the company are KTQ certified. For outpatient medical diagnostics and therapy services (e.g. outpatient surgery ), the structures of the clinics are also used by resident doctors. The motto of the mission statement is "The human being at the center of our actions".

Locations

Cologne-Merheim Hospital

The Cologne-Merheim hospital is the largest part of the clinics in the city of Cologne and is located in the Merheim district of Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine . The house is the university clinic of the University of Witten / Herdecke and the academic teaching hospital of the University of Cologne . It is a house of maximum care with 724 beds and a supra-regional catchment area. The hospital opened on the site of the former Cologne-Ostheim air base on March 6, 1946. It houses some of the most modern medical facilities in Germany and Europe, such as the operative intensive care unit (OITS), the neurological acute care center with intensive care unit and stroke unit or the interdisciplinary endoscopy department. The Cologne-Merheim Hospital, together with the Cologne Fire Department, provides the medical staff for the crew of the rescue helicopter (RTH) Christoph 3 , which flew a total of 1581 missions in 2012.

Celebrities from Cologne are also involved in the Kultur im Krankenhaus Merheim eV association, which was set up by hospital employees , to contribute to the recovery of patients with artistic performances.

Number of beds	724
medical director	Axel Gossmann
Number of employees	approx. 1553 FTE (as of 2012)
doctors	approx. 364 (as of 2011)
Care level	Maximum care
areas of expertise	13
Number of inpatients and partial inpatients	27,763
Number of outpatients	12,736
Establishment date	1946 (since 2004 gGmbH )
Website	Cologne-Merheim Hospital

Cologne-Holweide Hospital

The Cologne-Holweide hospital is located in the Holweide district of Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine and is the academic teaching hospital of the University of Cologne . It started operations in 1972 and has 407 beds. Both the central administration of the hospitals of the City of Cologne gGmbH and the central educational institute of the hospitals are located at the Cologne-Holweide location. The clinic for gynecology and obstetrics at the Cologne-Holweide hospital is the largest obstetric clinic in North Rhine-Westphalia with around 2,000 births per year. In addition to the Cologne University Hospital, the Holweide standpoint has one of two KJPPs in the Cologne area.

Number of beds	407
medical director	Arno Dormann
Number of employees	approx. 732 FTE (as of 2012)
doctors	approx. 183 (as of 2011)
Care level	Main focus supply
areas of expertise	9
Number of inpatients and partial inpatients	21,040
Number of outpatients	18,036
Establishment date	1972 (since 2004 gGmbH )
Website	Cologne-Holweide Hospital

Amsterdamer Strasse Children's Hospital

The children's hospital in Amsterdamer Strasse is located in the Riehl district of Cologne on the left bank of the Rhine and is the academic teaching hospital of the University of Cologne . It has 264 beds, 60 of which are in the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Cologne-Holweide location. It is the first children's hospital in North Rhine-Westphalia to be certified according to KTQ (2004).

On July 29, 1959, construction work began on the children's hospital at Amsterdamer Strasse 59, and the topping-out ceremony was held on July 1, 1960. The clinic was only inaugurated on March 7, 1963, after the occupancy had already started on October 25, 1962.

It celebrated its 50th anniversary in August 2012 at a ceremony in Gürzenich, Cologne . In 2009, the McDonald's Children's Aid Foundation opened a Ronald McDonald House with 15 apartments for relatives of seriously ill children in the immediate vicinity of the children's hospital. The children's hospital will u. a. Supported by the Friends of the Children's Hospital Amsterdamer Strasse Cologne eV with donations in kind and money, through clinical clowns and various projects.

Number of beds	264 - incl. 60 in the clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry
medical director	Michael White
Number of employees	approx. 540 FTE (as of 2012)
doctors	approx. 107 (as of 2011)
Care level	regional peak supply
areas of expertise	5
Number of inpatients and partial inpatients	12,059
Number of outpatients	9,933
Establishment date	1962 (since 2004 gGmbH )
Website	Amsterdamer Strasse Children's Hospital

sales

In 2015, sales were around € 327 million (around € 327 million in 2014). In the same year, the clinics of the City of Cologne recorded a negative balance sheet result of approx. € 14 million (approx. - € 10 million in 2014). In 2016 sales increased to € 362.8 million; the deficit was reduced to € 6.5 million.

New building house 20b

One of the last major construction measures at the Cologne City Clinics is the new “House 20b” building on the central building of the Cologne-Merheim Hospital. The investment volume was around € 70 million. The construction took place according to a Europe-wide award procedure by the Austrian company VAMED of the health care group Fresenius . The shell construction began in February 2010, the official opening took place in June 2012. Features of the new building are:

• Operating theaters: 5
• Beds: 108 (mostly in single rooms)
• Usable area: 16,000 m²
• Gross floor area : 23,880 m²
• Floors: 6
• Parking spaces: 650
• Helipad : 1 (on the roof)

Facilities

Clinics

The specialist clinics of the Cologne City Clinics according to medical areas and locations:

area	Specialist clinic	Location
Anesthesiology	Clinic for Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine	Merheim
Anesthesiology	Pediatric Anaesthesiology Clinic	Riehl
Anesthesiology	Anaesthesiology Clinic	Wood willow
Ophthalmology	Ophthalmology Clinic	Merheim
surgery	Clinic for general, visceral and trauma surgery	Wood willow
surgery	Clinic for Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Urology	Riehl
surgery	Clinic for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Sports Traumatology	Merheim
surgery	Plastic Surgery Clinic	Merheim
surgery	Clinic for Thoracic Surgery in the Center for Pulmonary Medicine	Merheim
surgery	Clinic for Visceral, Vascular and Transplant Surgery	Merheim
Gynecology and Obstetrics	Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics with Perinatal Center (PNZ)	Wood willow
Otorhinolaryngology	Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic	Wood willow
Internal Medicine	Medical Clinic I	Merheim
Internal Medicine	Medical Clinic II	Merheim
Internal Medicine	Medical clinic	Wood willow
Internal Medicine	Pneumology Clinic in the Pulmonary Center	Merheim
Paediatrics	Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine	Riehl
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy	Wood willow
Neurosurgery	Neurosurgery Clinic	Merheim
neurology	Clinic for Neurology and Palliative Medicine	Merheim
radiology	Pediatric Radiology Clinic	Riehl
radiology	Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology	Merheim
radiology	Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology	Wood willow
radiotherapy	Radiotherapy Clinic	Merheim
urology	Urology Clinic	Wood willow

Institutes

In addition to the specialist departments, central facilities provide their medical services across all hospitals:

• pharmacy
• Institute for Education, Training and Continuing Education (AFW)
• Institute for Hygiene (Head Physician: Frauke Mattner)
• Institute of Pathology
• Institute for Transfusion Medicine (ITM)

Centers

When treating complex clinical pictures, the departments of the three hospitals work together in interdisciplinary competence centers that go beyond the traditional hospital structures.

• Age trauma center (together with the Protestant Kalk hospital, certified by DGU and Federal Association of Geriatrics)

• Pelvic abdominal center
• Breast center, certified ( Medical Association Westphalia-Lippe )
• Intestinal centerVascular center
• Hernia center
• Continence Center , certified
• Lung cancer center
• Osler Morbus Center , certified ( HHT Foundation International Inc. )
• Kidney and Hypertension Center
• Pancreatic center
• Rhenish Tumor Center
• Thyroid center
• Social Pediatric Center (SPZ), certified
• Trauma center , certified ( DIOcert )
• Center for Outpatient Surgery Cologne-Merheim (ZaCK)

Other facilities

• The Institute for Transfusion Medicine (ITM) operates a blood donation service in a dépendance in Breite Strasse 2-4 in downtown Cologne .
• In addition to the parts of the company used for health care, the clinics of the City of Cologne own other properties and real estate (e.g. staff dormitories) as capital reserves.

Research and Teaching

All specialist clinics in the Cologne City Clinics conduct scientific research in their respective fields. They employ a large number of doctors who have training authorizations in accordance with the further training regulations of the North Rhine Medical Association .

Chairs

The Cologne-Merheim Hospital is a clinical center of the University of Witten / Herdecke (UW / H) and has ten chairs there :

1. Chair of Anaesthesiology II, Frank Wappler
2. Chair of Surgery I, Markus M. Heiss
3. Chair of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Axel Goßmann
4. Chair of Internal Medicine II, come. Head: Axel Jörres
5. Plastic Surgery Chair, Paul Christian Fuchs
6. Chair of Pneumology, Wolfram Windisch. In 2016, the first German professorship for extracorporeal lung replacement procedures ("artificial lung") was assigned to the Chair of Pneumology; Christian Karagiannidis was called to this.
7. Radiation Therapy Chair, NN
8. Department of Trauma Surgery and Orthopedics, Bertil Bouillon
9. Chair of Thoracic Surgery, Erich Stoelbe
10. Department of Neurosurgery, Makoto Nakamura

Academic teaching hospitals

All three operating parts of the Cologne City Clinics are academic teaching hospitals of the University of Cologne . Students of human medicine have the opportunity to complete their practical year (PJ) in the specialist departments of the hospitals ( information forms for PY students ( Memento from June 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )).

Institute for basic, advanced and advanced training

The Institute for Education, Training and Continuing Education (AFW) is the central educational institute of the Cologne City Clinics. It offers educational opportunities for almost all professional groups in the company as well as for external participants. It also includes four schools for health professions :

• School of Health and Nursing
• School of Health and Child Nursing
• School for Surgical Assistance (OTA)
• School for medical-technical radiology assistance (MTRA)

Clinical studies

The City of Cologne clinics conduct clinical drug and therapy optimization tests to research the effectiveness of drugs, surgical methods or therapies. In addition, there are also non-interventional studies , NIS (also: application observations, AWB). The clinical studies are coordinated by the study centers of the Clinic for Pulmonary Medicine, the Breast Center and the Medical Clinic (Cologne-Holweide).

Cooperations

The clinics of the City of Cologne u. a. with the following organizations:

• University of Witten / Herdecke (Faculty of Health: Department of Human Medicine, Department and Nursing Science)
• University of Cologne (Medical Faculty)
• Catholic University of North Rhine-Westphalia (KatHo NRW)
• City administration of Cologne
• Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences , Social Concepts - Institute for Research and Development in Social Work (SO.CON)
• Bochum University of Health - Midwifery Studies

As part of the cooperation network for companies in the region and schools (KURS) and the Youth Thinking Future initiative funded by the Federal Employment Agency , the clinics of the City of Cologne are learning partners of two Cologne schools:

• Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium (Cologne)
• Albert Schweitzer Secondary School (Cologne)

history

Central milestones in the more than two hundred year history of today's clinics in Cologne:

19th century to 1945

year	event
1805	Donation of the monasteries of St. Cäcilien and St. Michael to the hospital administration by a decree of Napoleon .
1843-1847	New construction of the community hospital, integration of the collegiate church of St. Cäcilien into the complex as a hospital church.
1864	Foundation of the St. Marien Hospital .
1871	The hospitals are incorporated into the city administration.
1872-1874	Construction of the hospital in Mülheim .
1876	Construction of the Cologne-Deutz municipal hospital .
1883	Opening of the Oppenheim Children's Hospital .
1886-1888	Construction of the Augusta hospital for patients with infectious and acute diseases
1887-1888	Construction of the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Worringen .
1891-1898	Expansion of the Augustahospital.
1900-1902	Construction of a municipal specialist clinic for lung diseases in the Rosbach Forest Hospital ( Auguste-Viktoria-Stiftung zu Rosbach an der Sieg in Cologne ).
1896-1908	Extensions and conversions of the Lindenburg municipal hospital to establish academic teaching at the University of Cologne.
1922	Incorporation of Worringens , St. Elisabeth Hospital goes into municipal ownership.
1939-1945	Second World War with massive destruction of Cologne.
1945	Construction of the Cologne-Merheim hospital on the right bank of the Rhine on the grounds of the Cologne-Ostheim air base .

Post-war to the present

year	event
1946	Start of operation of the medical clinics (internal medicine) on the barracks grounds in Cologne-Merheim
1947	Operation of the Cologne-Brück Children's Hospital as a special department of the Cologne-Merheim Hospital .
1959	Construction of the children's hospital on Amsterdamer Strasse begins according to plans by Benno Schachner , Professor of Building Construction at RWTH Aachen University .
1961	Start of construction for a new building complex for surgery and neurology at the Cologne-Merheim hospital .
1962	Start of operations at the Amsterdamer Strasse municipal children's hospital .
1964	Operations in the civil hospital , which was destroyed in the war , are stopped.
1966	Operation of surgery and neurology in Cologne-Merheim.
1972	The Cologne-Holweide hospital is inaugurated.
1975	Start of construction for a new central building at the Cologne-Merheim hospital .
1981	The Cologne-Worringen hospital is closed.
1983	Start of operations in the central building in Cologne-Merheim.
1991	The perinatal center in the Cologne-Holweide hospital opens.
1995	The interdisciplinary intensive care unit in the Cologne-Holweide hospital is put into operation.
2002	The Rosbach Forest Hospital will be closed.
2003	Cooperation with the private University of Witten / Herdecke begins.
2004	Establishment of three chairs at the University of Witten / Herdecke.
2004	New legal form: the city's own operation becomes the non-profit GmbH Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH , the city of Cologne is the sole shareholder.
2005	The clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry goes into operation (Holweide location).
2010	Cologne-Merheim Hospital becomes the Witten / Herdecke University Hospital .
2012	Start of operation in the new building 20b .

Trivia

• In 2009, the proceedings for a personnel decision by the Supervisory Board on account of the alleged violation of the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) were in the public interest. In the case in question, the chairman of the supervisory board of the City of Cologne Clinics had given the advanced age of the plaintiff as the reason why the plaintiff's employment contract was not extended. According to a judgment of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), such a justification fulfills the criteria of age discrimination .
• The Cologne-Merheim hospital has already been the subject of documentaries several times . The production company Grundy Light Entertainment produced, for example, the articles Auf Leben und Tod: Emergency Doctors in Action (broadcast on May 7, 2011 on VOX ) and Between Moving Boxes and Emergencies - A Clinic under Construction (broadcast on August 18, 2012 on VOX) about work of the hospital.
• In 2004 , Til Schweiger shot scenes from his film Barefoot in the forest hospital near Rosbach , which belonged to the city clinics and where clinical operations were closed in 2002 .
• The clinics of the city of Cologne are partners of the Gesundheitskongress des Westens , an annual specialist congress for the health industry since 2007.

Quality reports

• Quality report Cologne-Merheim Hospital 2010 (PDF 1.30 MB)
• Quality report Cologne-Holweide Hospital 2010 (PDF 904 kB)
• Quality report Children's Hospital Amsterdamer Strasse 2010 (PDF 895 kB)

literature

• Monika Frank, Friedrich Moll (ed.) Cologne hospital stories. In the beginning there was Napoleon ... Cologne 2006. ISBN 3-940042-00-5 .
• Heiko Wrusch My Children's Hospital Amsterdamer Strasse Bachem 2011. ISBN 978-3-7616-2433-3 .

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Management and committees of the Clinics of the City of Cologne gGmbH. In: kliniken-koeln.de. Retrieved October 11, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Jekab U. Leititis: After 200 years: look ahead. In: Monika Frank, Friedrich Moll (ed.) Cologne Hospital Stories. In the beginning there was Napoleon ... Cologne 2006. ISBN 3-940042-00-5 , pp. 635–653.
3. ↑ Jekab U. Leititis: After 200 years: look ahead. In: Monika Frank, Friedrich Moll (ed.) Cologne Hospital Stories. In the beginning there was Napoleon ... Cologne 2006. ISBN 3-940042-00-5 , p. 642.
4. ↑ Data and facts about the clinics of the City of Cologne gGmbH. Retrieved December 27, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Data and facts about the clinics of the City of Cologne gGmbH. Retrieved December 27, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Clinics of the City of Cologne gGmbH still on course ( memento of the original from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. kma-online.de (accessed on February 28, 2013) 
7. ↑ Management and committees of the Clinics of the City of Cologne gGmbH. In: www.kliniken-koeln.de. Retrieved October 6, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Jekab U. Leititis: After 200 years: look ahead. In: Monika Frank, Friedrich Moll (ed.) Cologne Hospital Stories. In the beginning there was Napoleon ... Cologne 2006. ISBN 3-940042-00-5 , p. 643.
9. ↑ Clinics of the City of Cologne gGmbH: Structured quality report for the Cologne-Merheim Hospital 2010 (in accordance with Section 137 Paragraph 3 Clause 1 No. 4 SGB V), p. 3.
10. ↑ Christoph 3 rth.info (accessed on February 28, 2013)
11. ↑ History of Christoph 3 luftrettung-koeln.org (accessed on 28 February 2013)
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13. ↑ Clinics of the City of Cologne gGmbH: Structured quality report for the Cologne-Holweide Hospital 2010 (in accordance with Section 137 Paragraph 3 Clause 1 No. 4 SGB V), p. 3.
14. ↑ Note: The Breast Center and Perinatal Center (PNZ) facilities of the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics are counted as two separate specialist areas according to the structured quality report.
15. ↑ 50 years of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Children's Hospital (accessed on February 27, 2013)
16. ↑ Clinics of the City of Cologne gGmbH: Structured quality report for the children's hospital Amsterdamer Straße 2010 (according to § 137 Paragraph 3 Clause 1 No. 4 SGB V), p. 3.
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28. ↑ Clinics of the City of Cologne gGmbH: Quality Report Children's Hospital Amsterdamer Strasse 2010 , pp. 18-19.
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30. ^ First professorship for extracorporeal lung replacement procedures (artificial lungs) - UW / H - University of Witten / Herdecke. Retrieved March 6, 2017 . 
31. ^ Uni Witten / Herdecke: Chair for Radiation Therapy . June 26, 2017 ( uni-wh.de [accessed August 7, 2017]).
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33. ↑ Cooperating nursing education institutions KatHo NRW  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. katho-nrw.de (accessed on February 28, 2013)  
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35. ↑ Two schools - one company ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. kurs-koeln.de (accessed on February 27, 2013) 
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39. ↑ Managers also have protection against age discrimination ( memento from June 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) tagesschau.de
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42. ↑ Overview of the sponsors and partners of the West's Health Congress  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 27, 2013)