Karlsburg Clinic
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| Sponsorship | Clinic group Dr. Guth, Hamburg |
| place | Karlsburg |
| state | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 58 '16 " N , 13 ° 36' 37" E |
| medical director | Wolfgang Motz |
| Care level | Specialized hospital |
| beds | 216 (2007) |
| areas of expertise | 4th |
| founding | 1947/1994 |
| Website | Karlsburg Clinic |
The Karlsburg Clinic is a specialist hospital for heart and metabolic diseases in Karlsburg near the city of Greifswald in the east of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It emerged in 1994 from the Karlsburg-based specialist hospital for diabetes and metabolic diseases "Gerhardt Katsch" , a transitional successor institution to the Central Institute for Diabetes, which existed from 1947 to 1990, and was supported by the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The clinic is privately owned by the Hamburg- based clinic group Dr. Guth and is the official Heart and Diabetes Center Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the academic teaching hospital of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald .
Structure and environment
After the privatization of the clinical facilities of the former Central Institute for Diabetes on January 1, 1994, they were modernized and expanded by extensive renovations and new buildings until 1997. On August 27, 1998, the first heart transplant took place in the Karlsburg Clinic. The clinic is currently divided into four clinics for “Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery”, “Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine”, “Cardiology” and “Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases”. In addition, a department for interventional radiology , a dental department, an ophthalmologist department, a dialysis department , a laboratory and a pharmacy belong to the medical area of the clinic.
According to the hospital requirements plan of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , it has 216 beds. The number of inpatients admitted is around 8,500 per year, and around 3,500 outpatients are treated annually. Particularly in the area of care for diabetics , due to the role of the previous central institute in the health system of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), it continues to have a supraregional importance, especially in the eastern German federal states . The archive of the clinic keeps the files of the Central Diabetes Register of the GDR , which was created at the Central Institute from 1960 to 1989 .
The scientific institutions in the immediate vicinity of the Karlsburg Clinic include the Institute for Pathophysiology of the University of Greifswald and, as a non-university research facility of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the Institute for Diabetes eV, both of which also emerged from the Central Institute for Diabetes and its activities in the field of basic research as well as the applied research and development. Both institutes cooperate with the clinic in the field of diabetes research. Furthermore, the Institute for Physiology of the University of Greifswald is located in Karlsburg.