Agaplesion Hospital New Bethlehem

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Agaplesion Hospital New Bethlehem
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place Goettingen
state Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 32 '27 "  N , 9 ° 56' 32"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '27 "  N , 9 ° 56' 32"  E
executive Director Christian von Gierke
beds 100
Employee 250
including doctors 16
areas of expertise Anaesthesiology , ophthalmology , surgery , obstetrics , gynecology , ear, nose and throat medicine , internal medicine , plastic surgery
Annual budget 13 million euros
Affiliation Agaplesion
founding 1896
Website http://www.neubethlehem.de/
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The Agaplesion Hospital New Bethlehem gGmbH (formerly Hospital New Bethlehem gGmbH ) is a 1896 founded, evangelical embossed slip Hospital in Göttingen . In 2014 it had 100 beds and since October 2012 the majority has belonged to the Agaplesion clinic group .

history

Founding years

Art Nouveau windows in the New Bethlehem Hospital

On the initiative of the gynecologist Max Runge , who wanted a hospital for his private patients near his place of work at the Göttingen University Clinic , the Protestant "Stift Alt- und Neu-Bethlehem" built from 1895 to 1896 on a property purchased on what was then Kirchweg (since 1965: Humboldtallee) a "women's sanctuary" with twelve single rooms, which was called "Stift Neu-Bethlehem".

It was a historic brick building that was adjusted to the neighboring buildings of the university clinic and was financed from private funds. Runge, who supported the new hospital with medical inventory, also shaped it with his authoritarian-patriarchal demeanor. The nursing of the sick was in the hands of deaconesses , to whom Runge was fully authorized to issue instructions, but whose head "housemother" was responsible for the accounting . In 1898, in the third year of its existence, the New Bethlehem Abbey treated 173 patients whose average length of stay was 18 days. 40 operations were performed on them. In 1900 the hospital was expanded to include a bed wing with eight single rooms. In 1909 185 patients were treated with 58 operations.

After Runge's death in 1909, the management of the hospital went to Philipp Jung until 1918 . He showed the employees rather affection and trust and had a “new building for female private patients” built on an additional property acquired in 1910, which was opened in 1912. The two-storey building was designed in Art Nouveau architecture and contained seven twin and six single rooms, an operating theater and two delivery rooms, as obstetrics were now also operated. In 1916, earlier information is no longer available, 48 children were born there. A total of 235 patients were treated this year. The previous building was now made available to resident doctors and professors from Göttingen as a hospital, where men were also treated. Since 1913 there was a separate ear, nose and throat medicine station for which the otologist Wilhelm Lange was responsible.

First World War and Weimar Republic

Religious inscription above one of the buildings (2014)

During the First World War and beyond to 1920, the hospital served as a reserve military hospital . The total of 1771 soldiers treated suffered mainly from gunshot wounds and diseases in the head area. Subsequently, the hospital rooms were renovated, as far as the supply situation in the Weimar Republic allowed. Jung's successor, the gynecologist Karl Reifferscheid , who headed the gynecological department from 1918 to 1926, gave public lectures for women organized by the German Evangelical Women's Association, in which issues of birth control and contraception were discussed. While Reifferscheid advocated contraception, including through sterilization , he spoke out clearly against abortions .

Heinrich Martius headed the women's clinic from 1926 to 1965 . He reduced the number of obstetric operations because he was of the opinion that the physiological process of childbirth should be interfered with as little as possible. The maternal mortality decreased from 0.92% (1926 to 1930) to 0.087% (1951-1953) and the infant mortality rate was reduced from 8.72% (1926 to 1931) to 5.03% (1948 to 1953).

Great Depression and National Socialism

During the Great Depression were still 1,930 boilers, laboratory equipment and other inventory acquired as well as the access to be expanded to the hospital. After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, repair and renovation work was carried out on the buildings as part of a Göttingen job creation program. Since the occupancy rate had decreased from 1927 (1,373 patients) to 1932 (835 patients), the nursing care rates were reduced in 1935 . The gynecological department increased its occupancy again from this year and the number of births rose from 48 in 1933 to 315 in 1944. During the time of National Socialism , no attempt was made to enlarge the hospital, which was now overcrowded, as the future was more evangelical Considered hospitals unsafe. The National Socialist concept of the Führer principle had an impact on the structures within the sisterhood, but the Hitler salute did not find its way into the language of deaconesses. The number of Jewish patients treated in the New Bethlehem Hospital fell from 2.8% (23 patients) in 1928 to isolated cases. As a non-state-run clinic, the hospital was not eligible for compulsory sterilizations under the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring . As in other Gottingen hospitals, as well as the university hospital, were hospitalized New Bethlehem during the Second World War but forced laborers employed. From November 1942 until the end of the war, five Russian women, then known as “ Eastern workers ”, worked in the kitchen and laundry. The hospital also served as a military hospital during the Second World War . The National Socialist Karl-Ewald Herlyn became chief physician, while sergeant-major on duty was the theologian Joachim Jeremias , who was on the side of the Confessing Church . Up to January 1946, a total of 1717 soldiers were treated in the 40 hospital beds for members of the Wehrmacht . When there was an air raid , they had to be carried down to the air raid shelter .

post war period

After the end of the war, the premises were renovated, equipped with an option for X-ray diagnostics and the question of a merger with the Evangelical Hospital Göttingen-Weende was discussed. From 1955 onwards the building was rebuilt and the existing building was renovated so that in 1970 the hospital had 93 beds.

present

View of the entrance area (2013)

Since the late 1980s, the New Bethlehem Hospital has been rebuilt and expanded. The first construction phase was inaugurated in 1994 and a new ward building in 1996. The gynecological clinic and, from 2006 to 2010, the old ward block were renovated and a new functional wing was built by 2010.

After the previous carrier ProDiako was taken over by Agaplesion gAG, the hospital has been part of this clinic group since 2012, which refers to Christian values ​​in its self-image. A merger with the Evangelical Hospital Göttingen-Weende had been planned again since 2010, but failed. In contrast, a merger with the neighboring Catholic hospital Neu-Mariahilf was still under discussion until 2013 , but was done in March 2014 when the hospital Neu-Mariahilf, which was in financial difficulties, was bought by the Evangelical Hospital Göttingen-Weende.

With the exception of the anesthesiology department, various attending physicians specializing in ophthalmology , gynecology, ear, nose and throat medicine, internal medicine and surgery work at the Agaplesion Hospital New Bethlehem . In 2017, 1,066 births took place, and the delivery room area was modernized and expanded in 2013. The hospital has five wards, which include a chest pain unit and an internal medicine and surgical IMC . It works together with a cardiac catheter laboratory close by at the Heart & Vascular Center in Göttingen. In 2013 it stated the number of employees as 250 and treats around 8,200 inpatients and 15,000 outpatients per year. It is included in the Lower Saxony hospital plan 2013 as a plan hospital with 100 beds.

The long-time managing director Hans-Hermann Heinrich (formerly managing director of Agaplesion Bethanien Bad Pyrmont and also managing director of the Neu-Bethlehem Foundation) left the company on December 31, 2014 and took over the management of Diakonie Harzer Land in Osterode am Harz. Christian von Gierke became the new managing director (previously administrative manager and former ProDiako manager in several clinics).

Construction work began in 2016 with the aim of equipping the recovery room with an isolation area for patients with multi-resistant germs, creating new patient rooms in the areas of gynecology and obstetrics, expanding the practices of the attending doctors and creating additional parking spaces. The construction work in the gynecology department was completed in 2018. In 2019, further construction work became apparent on the main building.

Managing directors

  • until July 31, 2006: Hans-Hermann Heinrich (* 1947) and Claus Eppmann
  • August 1, 2006 to June 15, 2010: Hans-Hermann Heinrich and Klaus Heidelberg (* 1954)
  • until December 31, 2014: Hans-Hermann Heinrich
  • since January 1, 2015: Christian von Gierke

literature

  • Traudel Weber-Reich: Nursing and healing in Göttingen. The Bethlehem Deaconess Institution from 1866 to 1966 . Studies on the history of the city of Göttingen. tape 22 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-85423-4 .
  • Gudrun Zetzsche: Some statistical information about the births in the Neu-Bethlehem private clinic from 1926-1950 . Diss. V. May 6, 1952. Göttingen 1952.

Web links

Commons : Agaplesion Hospital New Bethlehem  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Traudel Weber-Reich: Care and healing in Göttingen. The Bethlehem Deaconess Institution from 1866 to 1966 . Studies on the history of the city of Göttingen. tape 22 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-85423-4 .
  2. ^ Hermann Frenzel: The ear, nose and throat clinic of the University of Göttingen. A brief description of its structural development from 1878–1963. Göttingen 1964, p. 7
  3. ^ Cordula Tollmien : Health Care. In: Göttingen City Archives: Project Nazi Forced Laborers. Retrieved November 23, 2013 .
  4. ^ Projects: New Bethlehem Hospital. In: Göttinger Architektenwerkstatt GAW. Archived from the original on December 5, 2013 ; Retrieved November 26, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Official handover at New Bethlehem. In: Göttinger Tageblatt . January 15, 2010, archived from the original on December 4, 2013 ; Retrieved November 26, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Press release by Agaplesion of September 20, 2012. (PDF; 50 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; Retrieved November 23, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.agaplesion.de
  7. ^ Diakoniekrankenhaus under a new name. In: Weser courier . August 2, 2013, accessed November 23, 2013 .
  8. ↑ The merger of New Bethlehem and Weende is getting closer. In: Göttinger Tageblatt . February 1, 2010, accessed November 23, 2013 .
  9. ^ Clinics Neu Bethlehem and Neu Mariahilf: A heart for fusion. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine (HNA) online. September 20, 2013, accessed November 23, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Evangelical Hospital Weende buys Catholic Neu-Mariahilf. In: HNA online. March 19, 2014, accessed May 4, 2014 .
  11. ↑ a b Hospital New Bethlehem: Families can now accompany the birth. HNA on February 16, 2018, accessed September 10, 2018.
  12. ↑ New Bethlehem Hospital has expanded the maternity ward to include a delivery room. In: HNA online. June 26, 2013, accessed November 23, 2013 .
  13. ↑ a b Construction work in the hospital. New Bethlehem is rebuilding and extending. In: Göttinger Tageblatt. September 30, 2016. Retrieved October 30, 2016 .
  14. ↑ 28. Update of the Lower Saxony Hospital Plan 2013. In: Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Women, Family, Health and Integration: Hospital planning. Retrieved November 22, 2013 .
  15. ↑ http://www.goest.de/diakonie.htm
  16. ↑ http://www.neubethlehem.de/fileadmin/KNB-Goettingen/Pressespiegel/Mitteilungen/NEWS_Gierke_GF.pdf