Hospital of the City of Ludwigshafen
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| Sponsorship | City of Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
| place | Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 29 '24 " N , 8 ° 25' 34" E |
| executive Director | Hans-Friedrich Günther |
| Care level | Maximum care |
| beds | 939 (2015) |
| Employee | 3093 (2015) |
| Annual budget | € 223.4 million (2015) |
| founding | 1892 (laying of the foundation stone in Bremserstraße) |
| Website | www.klilu.de |
The Ludwigshafen Clinic is a maximum care hospital in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . The city of Ludwigshafen is responsible for the clinic. The legal form is a non-profit GmbH . The clinic is the third largest employer in Ludwigshafen after BASF and the city administration.
It has 15 clinics and six institutes for almost all medical specialties. The clinics operate numerous special outpatient departments . There are a number of competence centers for this purpose . Two old people's and nursing homes are also part of the clinic.
In May 2009, the Ludwigshafen Clinic was the first municipal hospital in Germany to be certified according to the latest KTQ version. The recertification took place in 2012 and 2015.
The clinic is the academic teaching hospital of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Mannheim Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University.
history
In 1851, a year before King Maximilian II granted Ludwigshafen am Rhein municipal rights, citizens founded a nursing association to run a hospital for “commercial and industrial assistants, workers and servants of both sexes”. After the city charter was granted in November 1859, the city took over the hospital as part of its poor and welfare work, and in 1861 it officially became the city hospital. In 1874 the facility, which was operated in a converted inn, had 48 beds. A bather worked as the hospital administrator who looked after the sick together with his wife and children. A full-time hospital doctor was not available.
The clinic has been located at its current location on Bremserstraße since 1892. In World War II, several buildings were severely damaged and rebuilt after the war. The hospital was renamed Municipal Hospital Institutions in 1964. Since 1984 academic teaching hospital of the University of Mainz . In 1986 the hospital got its current name. In 1994, the company was converted into a non-profit GmbH sponsored by the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein.
In 2016, the hospital's new heart center was built for 40 million euros. The hospital financed the major project without any subsidies. It took three years to build.
Important parameters (2015)
- Number of inpatients per year: approx. 40,500
- Plan beds: 939
Clinics and Institutes
The Ludwigshafen Clinic operates 15 clinics:
- Eye clinic
- Surgical Clinic A (general, visceral and thoracic surgery)
- Surgical Clinic B (vascular surgery)
- Women's clinic / obstetrics
- Ear, nose and throat clinic
- Dermatology clinic
- Clinic for Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine
- Clinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Cardiac Surgery Clinic
- Clinic for Radiation Therapy and Radiological Oncology
- Clinic for general internal medicine, nephrology, hematology, rheumatology (Medical Clinic A)
- Clinic for Cardiology, Rhythmology, Pneumology (Medical Clinic B)
- Clinic for Gastroenterology, Diabetology, Infectious Diseases (Medical Clinic C)
- Neurological Clinic
- Urological clinic
The following six institutes complete the range of services offered by the clinic. You work independently and support the clinics with diagnostics and service provision.
- Institute for Hemostaseology and Transfusion Medicine
- Institute for Laboratory Medicine and Hygiene
- Institute of Pathology
- Institute for Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine
- Central Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
- pharmacy
Competence centers
The clinical center of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein operates different centers. The intensive interdisciplinary cooperation ensures comprehensive patient care "from a single source":
- Autoimmune diseases
- Breast Center Ludwigshafen
- Darmzentrum Rheinpfalz
- Diabetes Center
- Vascular center
- Skin Tumor Center Rheinpfalz
- Continence and pelvic floor center
- Head and Neck Tumor Center Ludwigshafen
- Oncological Center Ludwigshafen (OZLU)
- Pancreatic Cancer Center Rheinpfalz
- Prostate Carcinoma Center Rheinpfalz
- Center for Outpatient Operations
Works of art
With the Ring des Seyns , a work of art by the Japanese concept artist Kazuo Katase , who lives in Germany , the clinic has one of the most distinctive works of art in the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Another work of art by K. Katase in the hospital is the multi-part room installation Fountain and Dream in the hospital grounds. Furthermore, the first floor and the two stairwells of building D were artistically designed by Stefan Pietryga , as well as the traffic joint of building B by Renate Reifert.
House E was an art project in 2002.
literature
- Wolfgang von Hippel: For the benefit of the sick. From the hospital to the clinical center in the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Regional culture publishing house, Ludwigshafen 1992, ISBN 3-9802218-9-X .
