Wolfsburg Clinic
| Wolfsburg Clinic | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | City of Wolfsburg |
| place | Wolfsburg |
| state | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 24 ′ 50 " N , 10 ° 46 ′ 7" E |
| medical director | apl. Prof. Dr. Matthias Menzel |
| Care level | 4th |
| beds | 547 |
| Employee | Approx. 2150 full and part-time employees |
| founding | 1941 |
| Website | www.klinikum.wolfsburg.de |
The Wolfsburg Clinic (originally Wolfsburg City Hospital , then Wolfsburg City Clinic ) is the hospital of the city of Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony . With over 2,000 employees, it is one of the largest employers in the city after the Volkswagen factory .
history
The city of Wolfsburg was founded in July 1938 - initially under the provisional name City of the KdF-Wagons . Initially, seriously ill people were cared for in Braunschweig hospitals. Construction of the city hospital, which opened in 1941, began as early as March 1940. The first patient was admitted on March 27, 1941. It was located north of Reislinger Straße, roughly between today's Kiebitzweg and Pirolweg streets. It initially consisted of twelve wooden barracks and had a maximum of 120 beds for around 12,000 residents. In the following years its capacity was expanded to up to 352 beds. From May 1, 1944 to June 1945, the hospital was temporarily part of the Volkswagen factory , as the factory, as an armaments factory, had better access to food and medication.
In the fall of 1950 the barracks of primary school III served. (today's Friedrich-von-Schiller-Schule) in the Steimker Berg district temporarily as a makeshift hospital, as the capacity of the city hospital was no longer sufficient due to the large number of people suffering from scarlet fever .
As early as the summer of 1950, the city administration had drafts drawn up for a new hospital building, but these were not implemented. As a result, the municipal building department headed by Harald Kruschewsky was commissioned to plan and implement the new hospital. On February 20, 1952, the Wolfsburg City Council decided in favor of the construction site on Klieversberg . On April 11, 1953, the foundation stone for the new construction of the city hospital was laid by Mayor Arthur Bransch in the Klieversberg district on the mountain of the same name , and by the end of October 1954 the shell was completed. The inauguration of the new hospital took place on November 2, 1955, and was put into operation on November 3, 1955. Initially, the new building, consisting of many individual houses, had 533 beds; Wolfsburg now had around 49,000 inhabitants. The barracks of the previous hospital were demolished and residential buildings were built in their place.
Since then, the hospital has been regularly expanded and modernized. The functional wing was rebuilt from 1980 to 1984. In 1996 the "Center for Developmental Diagnostics and Social Pediatrics " (ZEUS) received its own building on the edge of the clinic premises. In 1999 the Wolfsburg City Hospital was renamed "Wolfsburg City Clinic".
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany , the Wolfsburg-based hotel Global Inn in the Stadtmitte district was held ready as a supplementary hospital for patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 disease courses from April 3, 2020 , but it was not used.
Structure and data
The clinic serves a catchment area of around 180,000 people in and around Wolfsburg. It has 547 inpatient beds, making it one of the largest hospitals in Lower Saxony. In 2017, around 32,200 inpatients and 55,000 outpatients were treated. The hospital serves the central supply with the care level 4. The administrative director of the hospital is Wilken Köster.
In the clinic's nursing schools, 112 people are trained in nursing and 29 in children's nursing. The clinic has been an academic teaching hospital for the Hannover Medical School since 2008 . The Fallersleben sulfur bath in the Fallersleben district is part of the clinic .
The following 13 clinics belong to the clinic:
- Clinic for Anesthesia , Operative Intensive Care Medicine and Rescue Medicine
- Women's Clinic
- Ear, nose and throat clinic , head and neck surgery
- Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
- Medical Clinic I
- Medical Clinic II
- Clinic for Neurotraumatology and Spinal Surgery
- Clinic for Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology
- Radiation Oncology and Radiation Therapy Clinic
- Clinic for Trauma Surgery , Orthopedics and Hand Surgery
- Urology Clinic
- Center for General , Visceral and Vascular Surgery with a Clinic for General and Visceral Surgery and a Clinic for Vascular and Endovascular Vascular Medicine
- Department of Neurology
The following institutes and centers are also part of the clinic:
- Institute for Clinical Chemistry , Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine
- Institute for Clinical Pathology
- ZEUS, early intervention center at ZEUS, prostate center , gynecological cancer center, breast center, trauma center and level 1 perinatal center .
There are also several specialist practices on the clinic premises. A room of silence includes a Christian chapel and a Muslim prayer corner.
The clinic is located in the Klieversberg district, around 100 meters above sea level . In the immediate vicinity are the city forest and the "animal enclosure" in a disused limestone quarry. A bus line operated by Wolfsburger Verkehrs GmbH , which usually runs every half hour, connects the clinic with the city center and the Wohltberg district .
Works of art
- Wall mosaic by Rudolf Mauke (Wolfsburg)
- Study for Third Watcher (1959) by Reginald Butler (Berghamstedt)
- Figure to the left - Relief (1964) by Andreas Judgment (Vienna)
- The first step (1967) by Jürgen Weber
- Ceramic wall relief (1968) by Rudolf Mauke (Wolfsburg)
- Give me my ball (1980) by Harald Isenstein (Copenhagen)
literature
- Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. A chronicle. 1938-1948. Wolfsburg 1974, p. 67.
- Adolf Köhler: Wolfsburg. Building a city. 1948-1968. Wolfsburg, undated (around 1976), p. 43.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Portrait of the clinic on its website , accessed on February 12, 2020.
- ↑ City Chronicle. The history of the city. wolfsburg.de, accessed on April 21, 2020.
- ↑ City Hospital, Allerzeitung on March 30, 1940. In: 50 years Wolfsburg in the press. City of Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg 1988, p. 13.
- ↑ a b c Chronicle of the Clinic , accessed on January 19, 2014.
- ↑ http://autogramm.volkswagen.de/04_11/wolfsburg/wolfsburg_08.html
- ↑ Hans Karweik: 1950: schools because Scarlet closed. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of April 2, 2020.
- ↑ When Wolfsburg built a city hospital. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of November 21, 2018.
- ↑ 80 years of Wolfsburg. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Wolfsburg 2018.
- ↑ Bouquet for Arthur Bransch. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition March 3, 2019.
- ↑ Markus Kutscher: The supplementary hospital is ready for use. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of April 8, 2020.
- ↑ Eva Nick: More corona tests - fewer beds required. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of May 13, 2020.
- ↑ Quality report of the hospital 2008 (PDF), accessed on January 20, 2014.