Osnabrück Clinic

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Klinikum Osnabrück GmbH

logo
legal form GmbH
founding 1811
Seat Osnabrück , Germany
management Martin Eversmeyer, Rudolf Küster
(Managing Director)
Number of employees 2,200 (2018)
sales 135 million euros (2012)
Branch health
Website www.klinikum-os.de

The Klinikum Osnabrück GmbH is a hospital company in municipal ownership with about 1,000 beds at two locations. The main location is on Finkenhügel in the Osnabrück district of Westerberg , the second location is the clinic at Kasinopark in Georgsmarienhütte in the southern district of Osnabrück .

The city of Osnabrück acts as the sole shareholder. The maximum care hospital comprises several medical facilities, clinical institutes, health centers and a private clinic, which employs around 2,200 full-time employees. Around 32,000 inpatients and 70,000 outpatients are cared for every year.

As the academic teaching hospital of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , the clinic is entrusted with the training of prospective doctors and nurses. There is also an academy for training and further education, which offers both apprenticeships for professional activities in the healthcare sector and qualification measures for employees.

history

Origin and development at different locations

The Osnabrück Clinic has existed for over 200 years and has always been in municipal hands. The beginnings go back to the year 1811, when a city hospital for the needy was built in the Tecklenburger Hof for the first time. With the connection of a supply institute for journeyman craftsmen and the move to the newly built Stüvehaus at Heger Tor in 1864, what was then the municipal hospital expanded further. From 1931 onwards, the clinic continued to operate in what is now the town hall on Natruper-Tor-Wall, where Max Bürger excelled in the design of the building.

time of the nationalsocialism

From 1920 to 1938 Heinrich Fründ was the head of the city hospital. In November 1938 he was removed from this position by the National Socialists because, contrary to instructions to the contrary, he had continued to employ Jewish staff and treat Jewish patients. The predecessor Fründs as head of the city hospital, Siegfried Pelz (1848–1936), surgeon, poor worker and honorary citizen of the city of Osnabrück, was stripped of honorary citizenship by the National Socialists after his death in 1936 because he came from a Jewish family. His daughter Anna Pelz was deported to Riga in 1941 and shot there in 1942. The theologian Paul Leo , who worked in the city hospital, was also of Jewish origin. He stood up for Jewish believers and refused to take the oath on Adolf Hitler. From 1935 he was no longer allowed to enter the hospital on the orders of Mayor Erich Gaertner and was urged to give up his spiritual offices. In November 1938 Leo was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp , but was able to emigrate to the USA after a few weeks in prison.

1990s and 2000s

Since the old location at Natruper-Tor-Wall had become too small, the new building at Finkenhügel with 583 beds was moved into in 1991. The city of Osnabrück contributed 58 million to the 240 million D-Mark construction costs. In 1994 the former Bundeswehr hospital in Osnabrück am Natruper Holz was taken over.

Until 2009, the Klinikum Osnabrück GmbH had three operating sites, including the two hospital buildings on Finkenhügel and Natruper Holz as well as the nursing and old people's home "Haus am Bürgerpark". The care facility with 155 places and 66 employees, which was taken over in 1999, was sold to the Protestant Diakoniewerk after ten years due to deficit figures .

Takeover of the Klinikum Osnabrücker Land GmbH

On March 8, 2011, Klinikum Osnabrücker Land GmbH was taken over by Diakonie with its two clinic locations in Dissen and Georgsmarienhütte. The Diakonie-Krankenhaus Georgsmarienhütte was founded in 1872 as a miners' hospital of the Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- und Hüttenverein . In 1934 the Georgsmarienhütte community took over the clinic. In 1972 a new building was built as a modern city hospital. In 1992 the Diakonie took over the location.

In 2012, around 25,300 patients received medical care at the four locations. The municipal hospital group operated 691 beds in the clinics in the city area and 217 beds at the two locations in the Osnabrück region. In Osnabrück, plans developed to close the geriatrics and rehabilitation department at the Natruper Holz location and to accommodate it in a new building on Finkenhügel so that it can operate at a single location. In addition to the acquisition of the Osnabrücker Land Clinic, this project meant that the hospital society increasingly suffered from a tight financial situation. After surpluses in the two previous years, the 2012 annual deficit was around EUR -5.1 million. By the end of 2014, a liquidity requirement of around 41 million euros was assumed, which should be covered by a guarantee from the city of Osnabrück.

Closure of the Dissen and Natruper Holz locations

In the 2013 financial year, the clinic in Dissen posted high losses and had to file for bankruptcy. An investor could not be found. Despite protests from citizens and politicians in the southern district, the Dissen site was closed at the end of 2014 and the beds were removed from Lower Saxony's hospital planning. Since then, there have been calls for the establishment of a new medical care center or a portal clinic in Dissen in order to close the gap in acute care in the southern district. The Georgsmarienhütte location, which focuses on geriatrics and addiction medicine, was retained and was renamed Klinik am Kasinopark .

The new geriatric ward in Osnabrück was also opened in 2014 and is directly attached to the Finkenhügel location. Since then, the Natruper Holz location is no longer required for medical care. As part of the refugee crisis in Germany in 2015/2016 , it was converted into an initial reception facility by the Lower Saxony State Reception Authority (LAB NI) , which officially started operations in October 2015.

Current developments

In 2019, plans became known to close the clinic at the Kasinopark and to relocate all departments to the Finkenhügel as well. Although the clinic in Georgsmarienhütte is well utilized and financially not in deficit, several million euros would have to be invested in renovation measures if it were to remain at the previous location. A move to Osnabrück would have no effect on the acute medical care of the city of Georgsmarienhütte, as this is covered by the Franziskus-Hospital Harderberg . The move will take place over a period of three years.

literature

  • Eva Berger : Who will guarantee the costs? On the social history of the hospital. 125 years of the Osnabrück City Hospital; 180 years of urban health policy. (= Städtische Kliniken Osnabrück [Hrsg.]: Osnabrücker Kulturdenkmäler. Contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Osnabrück . Vol. 4) Rasch, Bramsche 1991. ISBN 978-3-922469-50-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Participation Report 2013. (PDF 2.8MB) Retrieved on January 31, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b http://www.noz.de/lokales/osnabrueck/artikel/259068/jubeljahr-im-krankenhaus-der-stadt
  3. ↑ Another city guide - persecutors and persecuted people at the time of National Socialism in Osnabrück, work group of the Graf-Stauffenberg-Gymnasium Osnabrück (ed.), 5th edition, Osnabrück 2001, p. 5
  4. ↑ http://www.noz.de/archiv/vermischtes/artikel/377761/sehen-vom-haus-am-burgerpark
  5. ↑ The history of the Klinik am Kasinopark , klinik-akp-gmh.de, accessed on September 15, 2019.
  6. ↑ http://www.noz.de/lokales/osnabrueck/artikel/426276/klinikum-osnabruck-brauch-41-millionen-euro
  7. ↑ Osnabrück location on lab.niedersachsen.de, accessed on February 15, 2020.
  8. ↑ Klinik am Kasinopark in Georgsmarienhütte is to move , noz.de, September 2, 2019, accessed on September 15, 2019.


Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 10 ″  E