Rheinfelden District Hospital (Baden)

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Rheinfelden District Hospital (Baden)

The Rheinfelden District Hospital (Baden) is a hospital in Rheinfelden , Baden-Württemberg . It is sponsored by the clinics in the Lörrach district .

history

The house opened in September 1975 with the internal medicine and surgery departments . Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Health, Annemarie Griesinger , who traveled to the inauguration, called the house "a place where human warmth prevails". In 1977 the hospital was expanded to include the orthopedic department , which was founded by Hans Rudolf Henche , a pioneer in knee arthroscopy in Germany, and which helped it gain a nationwide reputation (today the Clinic for Orthopedic Surgery).

Built as a performance level II hospital according to the hospital requirements plan of Baden-Württemberg, the hospital was criticized from the start. On the one hand because of the cheap construction. The foundation showed cracks shortly after opening. On the other hand because of the chronic understaffing. In the 1978 budget of the city of Lörrach, 164 out of 171.5 posts are filled.

In addition to the hospital, a building was also built for staff apartments, the so-called nurses' home. Because the deficiencies increased and sanitary areas were also affected by burst pipes, all tenants were given notice in September 2011. The dormitory has been empty since then and could not be used as an interim solution to accommodate refugees, as the local fire brigade has meanwhile used the building for training purposes and accordingly built-in parts such as floors, cupboards and doors were partially destroyed or significantly damaged. Mayor Diana Stöcker thinks that only demolition is possible. The building will not be torn down, as the demolition costs are around 400,000 euros, which the district clinic owner does not want to raise. Rather, the district clinics would like to sell the area with the nurses' home to the city of Rheinfelden. This is considering buying in order to develop the area as a residential area.

From the beginning there was regular discussion as to whether the Rheinfelden District Hospital really needed it. Proponents believe that the house is an important health care facility for the Upper Rhine region. The critics see the hospital as uneconomical because of its size. The population is already well taken care of by the region's hospitals. The poor working conditions since the beginning, the poor building fabric and the continuous complaints from patients are also listed. As part of the reform of the hospital landscape in the Lörrach district, a central clinic is to be built and the Lörrach, Rheinfelden and Schopfheim district hospitals to close by 2025.

Facility

In 2010 the Rheinfelden location had 165 beds, 110 of them in the orthopedic surgery area and 55 in the internal medicine area.

The specialist departments of the Rheinfeld district hospital are oncology, a clinic for orthopedic surgery, physiotherapy, radiology, a day-week clinic and a central laboratory.

The Rheinfelden location is the only hospital in the district with an open magnetic resonance tomograph . The hospital is also known in the region for its so-called “Green Ladies”, volunteer helpers from Rheinfelden and the surrounding area.

Deaths

Two months after the opening, several patient deaths occurred within a short period of time. The former nurse Reinhard Böse was suspected of killing the patients. The confession of evil is said to have been made under duress. The fatal injections are said to have been the cause of the poor working conditions in the district hospital. At that point, the accused had not slept for 41 hours.

Ultimately, the defendant Reinhard Böse was sentenced to seven years in prison for bodily harm resulting in death in seven patients. After the verdict, the warrant against Evil's arrest was lifted and his nursing profession was banned for life. The court did not see him as a murderer or a manslaughter, but as a negligent perpetrator. The court also found that things were confusing in this intensive care unit at the time: doctors and staff were inexperienced, disoriented, had difficulties with one another and made serious mistakes on their part.

In the course of the process, the working conditions in the Rheinfelden district hospital were discussed again and again. The critics saw the working conditions as the cause of the patient's incorrect treatment. For example, a patient developed hypoglycaemia because her blood sugar level was not measured regularly. In addition, the values ​​were determined in an unsuitable procedure. Another patient had the entire rectum removed instead of the existing benign ulcer in the rectum, and as a result an artificial anus was placed.

The poor working conditions were partly caused by poor pay and overcrowding. A reassessment of the jobs took place, which meant a collective downgrade for the employees. The overcrowding by patients was concealed by, for example, admitting three patients in the morning who did not yet have a bed or were lying in the hallway. The layoffs are not until the afternoon. The allocation appears on paper at midnight.

The workload in the Rheinfelden district hospital is also mentioned in the bachelor thesis “Killing patients by nursing staff”: “ Almost all employees of the various professional groups in Rheinfelden [on Reinhard Böse's ward] described that the high workload that understaffing, the lack of opportunity for training had a negative effect. The inadequate level of training, the 'not being in tune with one another' and the lack of a ward doctor also led to tensions in the intensive care unit. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Was im Muscle In: Der Spiegel 3/1976, January 12, 1976
  2. ↑ a b c Trial against the male nurse Böse: In: Kommunistische Volkszeitung - district part of southern Baden , June 26, 1978.
  3. ↑ There is damage in the dormitory - Klinik GmbH terminates tenants In: Badische Zeitung , September 1, 2011.
  4. ↑ Nurses ' home not a place for refugees to be accommodated . In: Rheinfelden.de , accessed on June 28, 2019.
  5. ↑ The area south of the Rheinfeld hospital could be built on with apartments . In: Badische-Zeitung.de , June 8, 2018, accessed on June 28, 2019.
  6. ↑ They are fighting for their hospital . In: Die Oberbadische , March 10, 2017.
  7. ↑ The hospital plays an important role . In: Badische Zeitung , May 26, 2018.
  8. ^ Situation at the Rheinfelden Clinic . In: CDU-Todtmoos.de , July 30, 2015, accessed on June 28, 2019.
  9. ↑ How the clinic landscape is changing in South Baden . In: SWR.de , September 4, 2018, accessed on June 28, 2019.
  10. ↑ The hospital in Rheinfelden is threatened with death . In: Suedkurier.de , March 29, 2016, accessed on June 28, 2019.
  11. ↑ Friends' association remains loyal to the Rheinfelden District Hospital . In: Badische-zeitung.de , March 9, 2017, accessed on June 28, 2019.
  12. ↑ Ruinous consequences In: Der Spiegel 39/1980, September 22, 1980
  13. ↑ Half an acquittal in: Die Zeit 21/1981, May 5, 1981
  14. ↑ UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES HAMBURG (HAW) Faculty of Economics and Social Affairs - Department of Nursing and Management Degree in Nursing Development and Management (BA) Killing of patients by nursing staff - institutions responsible - at http: //edoc.sub.uni-hamburg. de , author Judith Wedekind, accessed on June 28, 2019

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Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 46.8 ″  N , 7 ° 47 ′ 7.5 ″  E