District Hospital Loerrach
The district hospital in Lörrach was founded as the first municipal hospital in Lörrach in 1845. Today it is owned by the clinics of the Lörrach district .
history
The house was founded as the first municipal hospital in Lörrach in 1845. In the following years it was expanded and expanded at a second location. In 1955 a new building was built, at the time one of the most modern hospitals in southwest Germany. Extensions, modernizations and renovations, such as a new ward block and a children's clinic followed.
Medical supplies
The district hospital is an academic teaching hospital of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg with 320 beds. The clinic complex on the edge of the Lörrach city center today consists of five interconnected buildings. It comprises the clinics for surgery (with trauma surgery, visceral surgery , competence center for lung tumors ) and internal medicine (with cardiology , gastroenterology , oncology , neurology , pulmonology including sleep laboratory ), as well as the specialist departments of anesthesia , intensive care medicine , radiology (with high-field magnetic resonance imaging since 2006 ) as well as central laboratory and central pharmacy.
In addition, there is an oncological and a geriatric focus with a stroke ward , an eye department, the "Regional Pain Center South Baden", the centers for prevention and complementary medicine ( traditional Chinese medicine / whole-body hyperthermia , cooperation with the Chinese Anhui University ), a psychiatric day clinic with Psychiatric institute outpatient clinic in cooperation with the Center for Psychiatry Emmendingen and the outpatient care service "Mobilé".
The hospital also includes the school for nursing professions of the clinics of the Lörrach district in cooperation with the St. Elisabethen-Krankenhaus Lörrach gGmbH (health and nursing staff, health and pediatric nurses, health and nursing assistants). The central pharmacy also supplies the three Helios clinics in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district , a total of 1,200 acute beds and 400 rehab beds.
Cooperation with the St. Elisabethen Hospital
Since the district clinic in Lörrach and the St. Elisabethen Hospital in Lörrach, which has been in Lörrach for a long time (in the form of a non-profit GmbH, sole shareholder is the Order of Saint Vincent von Paul, based in Freiburg), recognized in the late 1990s that it would not be in the future If it is more economically feasible to offer similar services locally in parallel, they agreed, within the framework of a special status in hospital requirements planning granted by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Social Affairs in 1999, a cooperative restructuring process to be implemented until 2006 with the result of a specialization under the motto "Lörracher Weg" is considered to be a model for maintaining the diversity of agencies through the division of tasks.
Surgery and internal medicine with neurology and adult psychiatry were concentrated, expanded and modernized at the Lörrach district hospital, gynecology and obstetrics, the perinatal center, and pediatric medicine at St. Elisabethen hospital. The two clinic operators cooperate through a joint nursing school, in radiology, in the central laboratory and the central pharmacy, as well as in the joint head of department in anesthesia.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The Lörracher Weg - self-determined structural design as a prerequisite for cross-border cooperation in health care ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 52.6 " N , 7 ° 39 ′ 31.7" E