Clinic Links der Weser
| Klinikum Links der Weser gGmbH | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | Health North |
| place | Bremen-Obervieland |
| state | Bremen |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 2 '8 " N , 8 ° 49' 8" E |
| Medical director | Arnd Steffen Böhle |
| beds | 484 (2014) |
| Employee | 847 (2014) |
| areas of expertise | 10 |
| founding | 1968 |
| Website | http://www.klinikum-bremen-ldw.de/ |
The Klinikum Links der Weser ( Klinikum LdW or LDW for short ) is a hospital in the city of Bremen . Like three other clinics ( Bremen-Nord , Bremen-Ost and Bremen-Mitte ) it belongs to the Bremer Klinikverbund Gesundheit Nord gGmbH .
Task and situation
In 2006, almost 25,000 and in 2013 24,802 inpatients (including day-patient cases) and over 20,000 outpatients were treated in the Klinikum Links der Weser.
The clinic - as well as the three other clinics Bremen-Mitte , Bremen-Nord and Bremen-Ost - belong to the Bremer Klinikverbund Gesundheit Nord gGmbH . The clinic is an academic teaching hospital of the University of Göttingen
The clinic is located in the Obervieland district and here in the Kattenturm district.
history
The LdW was inaugurated in 1968 as one of the four municipal hospitals in Bremen . At that point in time it was already a training hospital, as a cooperation agreement with the children's nursing school at the Bremen-Mitte Clinic was concluded in the same year . In 1970, the first interdisciplinary intensive care unit was put into operation in the Bremen hospital . Bremen's second ambulance was in 1973 and the rescue helicopter Christoph 6 stationed in 1974 at the Hospital LdW. In 1976 a cooperation agreement was signed with the nursing school for training purposes. Since 1977 the clinic has also been the academic teaching hospital of the University of Göttingen .
In 1981 the first cardiac catheter laboratory went into operation, and in 1983 the cardiac surgery department opened. As early as August 8, 1983, the first operation with the heart-lung machine was performed in cardiac surgery . In 2002 the new building with a cardiological practice, hotel and outpatient and day-care rehabilitation facility was opened . The first artificial heart in Bremen was implanted at the hospital on August 1st, 2003 . The Links der Weser Clinic was KTQ certified in 2003 .
On January 1, 2004, the company was converted into a non-profit GmbH (gGmbH) and merged with the three other former municipal hospitals Bremen-Mitte, Bremen-Ost and Bremen-Nord in Gesundheit Nord gGmbH - Klinikverbund Bremen. Furthermore, the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen is 100 percent shareholder of the gGmbH. In 2006 a second phase of construction began. On May 8, 2006, today's cafeteria was inaugurated. On June 12, 2006, the Clinic for Palliative Medicine and Pain Therapy became an independent clinic. On December 13, 2006, an interdisciplinary children's intensive care unit was inaugurated.
Departments
The Links der Weser Clinic has a computer tomograph (MSCT), angiography station, and four cardiac catheter laboratories .
The LdW has 10 specialist departments:
- Clinic for General and Trauma Surgery
- Clinic for Thoracic Heart and Vascular Surgery
- Clinic for General Internal Medicine
- Clinic for Cardiology and Angiology
- Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics
- Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine and Pediatric Cardiology
- Clinic for Anesthesia , General and Operative Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine
- Clinic for palliative medicine and pain therapy
- Institute for Radiology
- Center for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Weser-Kurier of February 12, 2014, p. 9.
