Frankfurt Höchst Clinic
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| Sponsorship | City of Frankfurt am Main |
| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| state | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 6 '30 " N , 8 ° 32' 42" E |
| Manager | Dorothea thirteenth |
| beds | 968 + 44 day clinic places |
| Employee | 2,000 |
| including doctors | 300 |
| areas of expertise | 20th |
| Annual budget | 170 million euros |
| founding | 1858 |
| Website | http://www.klinikumfrankfurt.de/ |
The Frankfurt Höchst Clinic (until 2010: Städtische Kliniken Frankfurt-Höchst ) is one of the largest hospitals in Frankfurt am Main .
The location of the hospital is the Höchst Oberfeld on the border of the western Frankfurt district Höchst to Unterliederbach . The comprehensive streets are Gotenstrasse in the west and Hospitalstrasse in the south.
Range of services
The anesthesiology , ophthalmology , surgery , gynecology , geriatrics , ear, nose and throat medicine , internal medicine , pediatric surgery , neurosurgery , neurology , orthopedics and pediatrics clinics with a social and pediatric center (SPZ) are located on the approximately 70,000 m² area. , Psychiatry and urology . The emergency doctor vehicle 3 of the professional fire brigade and the intensive care transport vehicle (intensive relocation emergency doctor vehicle ) of the Johanniter Unfall-Hilfe Regionalverband Rhein-Main are stationed on the premises . The clinic staff at the children's clinic manned a baby ambulance. Schools for nursing , medical-technical assistants , physiotherapy , occupational therapy and, since August 2012, surgical assistants are connected.
With almost 1000 beds, the clinic is the second largest hospital in Frankfurt am Main after the Frankfurt University Clinic , of which it is one of the academic teaching hospitals . It is a member of the Klinikverbund Hessen e. V. of hospitals under public law in Hesse. At the beginning of 2012, Frankfurt citizens and employees of the clinic established the support group of the Frankfurt Höchst e. V. founded to improve the care of the clinic through financial support.
The Frankfurt Höchst Clinic is also the initiator of the Rhein-Main e. V., a collaboration of specialized, inpatient and outpatient doctors and medical institutions in the Rhine-Main area who cooperate with each other.
history
The approval of the Duke of Nassau in 1858 to build a hospital for craftsmen and servants is considered the birth of the hospital, which was extended in 1875. In 1924, separate houses were built for the surgical and medical clinic, followed in 1965 by a fourteen-story, elongated and narrow central building corresponding to the hospital style of the time, which protrudes from a wider base. In 1986 another extension was built, which today houses the eye clinic, neurology and psychiatry. In 1990 an extension wing was built for the operations department and obstetrics, but just fifteen years later it became necessary to construct a contemporary building that combined the previous intensive care units and connected them with a new emergency room and modern operating wing.
Corporate structure and management
Since the incorporation of the city of Höchst in 1928, the clinic was the only one of the Frankfurt hospitals to be run as a municipal company, while the rest were mostly sponsored by foundations, associations or non-profit organizations. On January 1, 2010, it changed into the private legal form of a non-profit limited liability company founded one year earlier , of which the city is still the sole shareholder. This was accompanied by the name change from Städtische Kliniken Frankfurt aM-Höchst to Klinikum Frankfurt Höchst .
The clinic generates annual losses that increased from three to 7.8 million euros between 2010 and 2012. The structural deficit is caused by high personnel costs, energy costs and the costs of outpatient treatment, which are not covered by the flat rate per case . In order to reduce the deficit in the long term, the city of Frankfurt and the Main-Taunus-Kreis are planning to merge the Höchst Clinic with the two Main-Taunus-Kreis hospitals in Bad Soden and Hofheim under a joint umbrella company.
Modernization and new construction
The hospital, which has been working in deficit for years, is suffering from the outdated building structure and staff shortage, has been planning a new building since 2007 to replace the uneconomical central building and keep the clinic competitive. As early as 2005, the emergency room, operating theaters and intensive care units were relocated to a newly built extension.
The plan was to replace the central building in an adjacent area by 2018 with a new building partly built using the passive house method , thereby reducing the number of beds to around 650, which corresponds to the general trend in the German hospital landscape. The then health department head of the city of Frankfurt described the building project as “the city's highest single investment at the moment and for decades”.
In September 2014, the health department head Rosemarie Heilig announced that the construction costs for the new building should be around 240 million euros according to the planning status at the time. The construction costs would be around 45 million euros above the original plan. In addition to general cost increases, the cause of the increase is a “massive increase in the price of technical building equipment” due to the 2014 Energy Saving Ordinance.
In March 2012, demolition work began on the clinic area to make room for the new building. The groundbreaking ceremony was in July 2016, followed by the excavation of the construction pit in June. The foundation stone was laid in November 2016. In February 2017, the floor slab was made. In September 2019, the completion of the new building with 644 beds was expected in autumn 2020, at a cost of 265 million euros.
Web links
- Clinic website
- Structured quality report for the reporting year 2012 (PDF) in accordance with Section 136b of the Social Code V.
- City planning office Frankfurt: urban planning, clinic, housing
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Frankfurt Höchst Clinic - The Clinic in Brief. In: klinikumfrankfurt.de. Retrieved October 2, 2014 .
- ^ Clinic website: Structure. Retrieved March 14, 2011 .
- ^ Website of the clinic on the training center. Retrieved October 2, 2014 .
- ↑ Cooperations between the Frankfurt-Hoechst Clinic. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Förderkreis Klinikum Frankfurt Höchst e. V. Retrieved October 20, 2014 .
- ^ Website of the health network Rhein-Main e. V. Retrieved October 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Frankfurt documentation for the post-war period: Zentralbau 1965. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 27, 2007 ; accessed on October 8, 2014 .
- ^ Website of the clinic: history. Retrieved March 14, 2011 .
- ^ Friederike Tinnappel: Clinics in crisis. Frankfurt continues to pay for its clinic. Frankfurter Rundschau, December 16, 2013, accessed on October 16, 2014 .
- ↑ The Hoechst Clinic is to be rebuilt. (No longer available online.) In: FAZ.NET . May 9, 2007, archived from the original on December 21, 2014 ; Retrieved February 26, 2015 . 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.
- ↑ New building should make Klinikum Höchst profitable. In: FAZ.NET . June 15, 2008, accessed February 26, 2015 .
- ↑ About us. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 11, 2014 ; accessed on October 8, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ Press release of the SPD Frankfurt. (No longer available online.) October 29, 2010, archived from the original on October 13, 2014 ; Retrieved March 14, 2011 . 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.
- ↑ Frankfurt Höchst Clinic: We are building for the new clinic. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on October 2, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ Klinik Höchst builds in passive house construction. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 9, 2010, accessed March 14, 2011 .
- ↑ Compact new building with fewer beds. In: FAZ.NET . April 30, 2010, accessed February 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Mechthild Harting, Ingrid Karb: We are fighting to prevent privatization . In conversation: Head of the health department Rosemarie Heilig (The Greens). In: FAZ . September 16, 2014, p. 34 .
- ↑ Holger Vonhof: Cost explosion for the new building: Höchst Clinic becomes a grave of millions. (No longer available online.) Höchst Kreisblatt , July 24, 2014, archived from the original on October 22, 2014 ; accessed on October 16, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ In March, demolition of the new clinic begins. (No longer available online.) In: Frankfurter Neue Presse. February 24, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 18, 2012 . ( 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.
- ↑ a b Data and facts - construction time. (PDF) In: neubau-klinikum-frankfurt.de. Klinikum Frankfurt Höchst GmbH, Zentrale ErrichtungsGesellschaft mbH, accessed on March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Ilse Romahn: The new construction of the Höchst Hospital is a milestone for medical care. In: Frankfurt-Live - online society magazine from Frankfurt am Main. Ilse Romahn, September 17, 2019, accessed on March 28, 2020 (dn).
