Gütersloh Clinic

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Gütersloh Clinic
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Sponsorship City of Gütersloh
place Gutersloh
state North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Federal Republic of Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 53 '50 "  N , 8 ° 23' 3"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 53 '50 "  N , 8 ° 23' 3"  E
management Managing Director: Maud Beste

Medical Director: Gero Massenkeil
Kfm. Director: Andreas Tyzak
Nursing Director: Andrea Eickhoff

Care level Main focus supply
beds 410
Employee 1,128 (2018)
founding 1862
Website www.klinikum-guetersloh.de
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The Gütersloh Clinic ( colloquially called “the urban” in Gütersloh, not to be confused with the Gütersloh LWL Clinic ) is a hospital in the East Westphalian district town of Gütersloh in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 2018, a total of around 20,000 inpatients were treated, plus around 43,000 outpatients. Founded as an "Evangelical Hospital", the clinic traded under the name of "Städtisches Krankenhaus Gütersloh" from 1939, then from 2001 under "Städtisches Klinikum Gütersloh", before the addition of "Städtisches" was dispensed with in 2009 despite the fact that the city of Gütersloh did not change its sponsorship.

In addition to the facility in Gütersloh- Sundern , patients at the clinic had access to the former Evangelical Hospital in neighboring Rheda , which specializes in general and joint surgery as well as hand and plastic surgery . In 2011 around 4,300 outpatients and 2,050 inpatients were treated there. The branch in Rheda was closed in June 2013.

The hospital is a member of the Clinotel hospital network.

history

Heinrich Barth, founder of the hospital
Logo between 2001 and 2009
Hospital chapel

In 1858 the Gütersloh merchant Heinrich Barth decreed in his will that 28,000 thalers should be used for the construction, furnishing and maintenance of a hospital and poor house for "poor Protestant residents of the city of Gütersloh". In 1861/62 the "Evangelical Hospital" on Berliner Straße (location of today's Hermann Geibel House) was built according to plans by Christian Heyden and opened on October 15, 1862 with 13 beds. Just two months later, the number of beds was increased to 19.

Until the turn of the century, the house served more as a retirement home than a hospital. In 1893 a sickroom was converted into a makeshift operating room, with a fish kettle serving as a sterilizer . It was not until 1901 that the building was given an operating theater that was modern by the way it was at the time . In 1910 an X-ray machine was purchased.

The first doctor in charge was the later honorary citizen of Gütersloh Friedrich Wilhelm Stohlmann , who was in charge of the practice alongside his practice and was therefore not always in the house. In 1891 Stohlmann's son August, Carl Zumwinkel and Wilhelm Schlueter worked as prison doctors. The first full-time manager was Julius Leopold Kranefuß in 1906, who held the office until 1930.

In 1914 the hospital was partially converted into a military hospital. An extension built in 1924/25 did not remedy the constant lack of space. In 1932, according to plans by the Berlin architect Ernst Kopp, the new building was opened at its current location on Reckenberger Strasse near the city ​​park . This location was expanded considerably in 1968 and has since been modernized several times. The old building on Berliner Strasse was demolished in 1969. In 1978 the nursing school, which opened in 1953, moved to the new site. In 1983 the new operating wing with five rooms, two intensive care units and a recovery unit was opened. Since 1987 the house has had a prone approach with an emergency room . In 1988 the children's ward and a patient library were added.

By 2007, the new south ward building was built on Reckenberger Straße, in which 126 patients in general, vice, vascular and trauma surgery and urology are cared for. The first medical center opened on the clinic premises in 2009 and another in 2013.

Since January 1, 1939, the hospital has been run as a municipal company. In 2009 it was transferred to a non-profit GmbH .

Departments

The Gütersloh Clinic is made up of 11 specialist departments and one ward: