Salzhausen Hospital

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Salzhausen Hospital
Sponsorship Nursing Association Salzhausen eG
place Salzhausen
state Lower Saxony
Coordinates 53 ° 13 ′ 34 "  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 54"  E
CEO Jürgen Meinberg
beds 75
doctors 8.6 full-time employees
areas of expertise 4th
founding 1897
resolution 2015
Website former website of the Salzhausen Hospital
Template: Infobox_Krankenhaus / Logo_misst
Template: Infobox_Hospital / Employee_ missing

The hospital Salzhausen was a hospital in independent public ownership in Salzhausen in the district of Harburg . The middle section of the hospital, a former office building from the 19th century, is a listed building . The Salzhausen Hospital was the only cooperative hospital in Germany . In 2015 the Salzhausen hospital was closed due to bankruptcy. The urological department moved to the Buchholz hospital in Nordheide. The Harburg district and the Asklepios hospital group had bid for the Salzhausen hospital. Ultimately, operations ceased in December 2015.

history

Salzhausen Hospital
Board at the entrance

In 1897, the teaching Health Board Wilhelm Meinberg, who worked as a country doctor in the villages around Salzhausen, in the house of Salzhausener barber and barber Christoph Mestmacher a hospital ward with three beds first one. On the advice and support of Pastor Wilhelm Bode , he and other residents of Salzhausen founded the Salzhausen Nursing Association - today the non-profit health care association - which was registered as a cooperative on June 13, 1898. The Salzhäuser facility was intended as a Protestant hospital that should also be open to other denominations. After just one year, the nursing association had 36 members, in addition to citizens and farmers, as well as seven communities.

Initially, the only caregiver was the wife of the barber Mestmacher, who soon after began training as a nurse . It was not until 1903 that a further nurse and a housekeeper were hired after the capacity of the house had increased to eleven beds as early as 1900 by expanding the attic of the Mestmacher house.

From 1902 the takeover of the former office building in Salzhausen was sought. It was built in 1854 and initially served as a district court , and since 1859 as a gendarmerie station. After the first corresponding applications were initially rejected, the house was finally taken over in 1906 and, after a renovation, put into operation in October 1907.

The old office building, a two-story gable roof building , is the middle part of what is now a three-wing complex. Its clinker- clad facade is divided into three sections, each with three axes, of segmented arched windows, and is closed at the top by an eaves cornice . This part of the building was registered as a monument in 1991 . The entrance is a small cyan-colored pavilion that was added later .

It was not until 1908 that the hospital was connected to the sewer system and electricity supply, and in 1910 central heating. The first operating theater was set up in 1921, the X-ray department in 1937. In 1985, a first extension was opened on the east side of the former office building, and another on the west side has been in operation since 2011.

As a result of the considerable investment costs, among other things, the Salzhausen Hospital ran into financial difficulties, in the course of which it finally had to file for bankruptcy in September 2013. After initially unsuccessful attempts to continue operating the hospital as an acute hospital, the Harburg district finally took over the ailing house in October 2014 with the aim of converting it into an outpatient health center, since the Salzhausen hospital was no longer in the bed requirement plan at this point of the state of Lower Saxony was planned. On May 27, 2015, the members of the joint health care association, the creditors and the Federal Employment Agency unanimously accepted the insolvency plan, as a result of which the cooperative was converted into a non-profit GmbH. Due to the continued decline in patient numbers, hospital operations were finally shut down on December 18, 2015. The employees were all taken over by the Buchholz and Winsen hospitals.

structure

The hospital's supporting cooperative has 1137 members and the 5292 cooperative shares. In 2012, the Salzhausen Hospital was part of the Lower Saxony hospital plan as a plan hospital. It had 75 beds. 50 nurses and 14 doctors were employed, plus two attending doctors . In addition to departments for internal medicine (with a focus on lung and bronchial medicine ) and surgery (with a specialization in joint surgery ), there was a urology department in the Salzhausen hospital , the only one in the Harburg district . In 2010, 2726 inpatients and 6238 outpatients were treated in the hospital.

The equipment included ultrasound diagnostics , shock wave lithotripsy and computed tomography ; As a special feature, the Salzhausen hospital had its own outpatient sleep laboratory .

Nursing and care for the elderly

Until February 2014, the offer included a home care service, day care for patients who spend the night at home, and the outpatient care service "care at home" for cases in which the normal home carer is unable to attend or is on vacation. From this point on, these care operations were taken over by the Benno and Inge Behrens Foundation. At the same time, the "assisted living" and the Heidmarkhof retirement and nursing home (founded in 1996) were transferred to the foundation.

literature

Web links

Commons : Krankenhaus Salzhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official Journal of the Lüneburg District Government from February 15, 1991, pp. 35–37
  2. ^ [1] Salzhausen Hospital starts with a new legal form, May 28, 2015 Nordheide Wochenblatt
  3. ^ [2] Salzhausen Hospital: Off after 118 years
  4. ↑ Lower Saxony Hospital Plan 2012 . Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Women, Family, Health and Integration , pp. 7 and 14, PDF document, accessed on May 4, 2012

Coordinates: 53 ° 13 '24.5 "  N , 10 ° 9' 54.5"  E