LKH University Hospital Graz
| State Hospital University Clinic Graz | |
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| Sponsorship | KAGes |
| place | 8036 Graz |
| state | Styria |
| Country | Austria |
| medical director | Wolfgang Köle |
| Care level | Basic care hospital in the greater Graz area. Specialized hospital south of the Mur / Mürzfurche. Central Hospital for Styria |
| beds | 1,556 (175 intensive care units ) |
| Employee | approx. 7,800 |
| including doctors | 1,484 |
| areas of expertise | all (University Hospital) |
| Annual budget | 535 million euros (2018) |
| Affiliation | Medical University of Graz |
| founding | 1788 and 1912 |
| Website | Klinikum-graz.at |
The LKH-Universitätsklinikum Graz or Landeskrankenhaus-Universitätsklinikum Graz is a maximum care hospital in Graz , Austria, and part of the Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft mbH (KAGes). With 1,484 doctors, around 7,800 employees and 1,556 beds, the Graz University Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in Austria. With an area of 60 hectares and almost ten kilometers of roads, it is the largest hospital in Europe.
history
In 1788, Emperor Joseph II had the general hospital set up in Graz's Paulustorgasse. A birthing and foundling house was opened in the courtyard wing in 1789, and a madhouse was set up in the neighboring, former Capuchin monastery. In 1840 the general hospital with birthing, foundling and madhouse had 440 beds, by 1860 it had 650 beds. In 1864 the general hospital was taken over by the provincial administration, and a new municipal hospital was to go into operation for the sick from Graz. From 1850 to the end of the 19th century, the number of beds in the state hospital increased from 650 to 1,164 beds. The lack of space required a new solution.
In 1890, 60 hectares of land were purchased around at what was then the edge of town and within ten years, the state hospital built Graz than it was then the largest hospital in Europe, it was opened on May 12, 1912th The building complex had its own water and power supply as well as an economy, a gardening shop and a laundry.
In 1913 the number of beds was 1,640, with around 24,000 inpatients admitted annually by 650 employees.
At the end of the 20th century, the LKH University Hospital Graz was decisively rebuilt as part of the LKH 2000 project . The total number of beds has been reduced and the quality of accommodation increased. Several non-university departments were relocated to the newly built West location of the LKH Graz South-West . The work went well beyond the year 2000, with the LKH 2020 project , the plans go further into the future.
architecture
The clinic consists of an ensemble of 29 Secession-style buildings, which were completed in May 1912. Within nine years, one of the then largest and most modern hospitals in Europe was built on what was then the eastern city limits of Graz. The LKH University Hospital is one of the few large Art Nouveau facilities in Austria. Although the complex has received many modern additions since its construction, the urban and architectural cohesion is still impressive today.
A road system characterized by symmetry opens up the grounds of the facility, with a 25-meter-wide main axis with an institutional church at the end representing the main feature of the road layout .
At that time, the complex was built according to the criteria of the most modern hospital architecture, which is reflected in the east-west-oriented pavilion hospital rooms, which are supposed to provide optimal natural lighting. Individual buildings are connected to one another by a six-kilometer-long system of tunnels. This compromise between pavilion and block buildings was modeled on the newest hospitals in the metropolises of Vienna, Berlin and Hamburg.
The address of the LKH University Hospital Graz is named after Leopold von Auenbrugger , an important physician and founder of percussion (medical examination by tapping the body surface), who was born in Graz and studied medicine there.
Patient care
The LKH University Clinic Graz is a maximum care hospital, it comprises 19 university clinics for various medical specialties as well as 33 clinical departments, 1 joint facility and 1 institute (as of 2018).
The hospital has a total of 1,556 systemized beds, including 175 in various intensive care units .
education
The LKH University Hospital Graz is the primary training hospital of the Medical University of Graz . Students of human and dentistry and nursing science are familiarized through internships and clerkships with the clinical work. Numerous administration and teaching rooms as well as lecture halls of the MedUni Graz are located on the premises of the University Hospital. Furthermore, the LKH University Hospital Graz houses the Education Center for Nursing and Health East of the State of Styria and the School for Health and Nursing of the State of Styria on its premises.
Ambulance service
There is an emergency doctor base on the premises of the university hospital. Around the clock is an emergency surgeon employment vehicle of the Red Cross ready, which brings emergency room of the hospital if necessary to missions.
There is no ambulance station either at the clinic itself or in the immediate vicinity . Due to the fact that the university clinic is the transport destination for most of the ambulance and ambulance services in the entire Graz area, there are vehicles on the premises almost around the clock - it is therefore used as an “informal ambulance”. There is a separate transport service for transport between the individual clinics, which was taken over by the Styrian Green Cross Association; this is not involved in the rescue service.
Medical students have the opportunity to do internships on rescue and ambulance vehicles of the Red Cross during their studies. There is also the Graz Medical Corps, an organization of medical students and doctors integrated into the local Red Cross, who actively participate in the design and provision of the rescue service in Graz, for example by manning the various emergency rescue vehicles ("Jumbo") in the city area with so-called rescue doctors (Medical students shortly before graduation with additional training).
Data and facts (as of 2019)
Medical / nursing facilities
Common facility
- AEMP III
- Initial examination-observation-recording
- Medical 3D printing center
Institutes
- Institute of Pathology
- Clinical Institute for Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics
Day clinics
- University Eye Clinic
- Interdisciplinary day clinic surgical clinics
- University Clinic for Dermatology and Venereology
- Otolaryngology University Hospital
- University Clinic for Internal Medicine
University hospitals
- Eye clinic
- Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
- Blood group serology and transfusion medicine
- surgery
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Clinical departments:
- General surgery
- Vascular surgery
- Cardiac surgery
- Plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery
- Thoracic surgery and hyperbaric surgery
- Transplant surgery
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Clinical departments:
- Dermatology and venereology
- Gynecology and Obstetrics
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Clinical departments:
- Clin. Dept. for Obstetrics
- Clin. Department of Gynecology
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Clinical departments:
- Ear, Nose and Throat University Hospital
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Clinical departments:
- General ENT
- Phoniatrics
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Clinical departments:
- Internal Medicine
- Clinical departments:
- Pediatric and Adolescent Surgery
- Paediatrics
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Clinical departments:
- Clin. Dept. for General Pediatrics
- Clin. Dept. for Pediatric Hemato-Oncology
- Clin. Dept. for Pediatric Cardiology
- Clin. Dept. of Neonatology
- Clin. Dept. for Pediatric Pulmonology
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Clinical departments:
- Medical psychology and psychotherapy
- Neurosurgery
- neurology
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Clinical departments:
- General neurology
- Clinical Department of Neurogeriatrics
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Clinical departments:
- Orthopedics and Traumatology
- Psychiatry and psychotherapeutic medicine
- radiology
- Radiation Therapy Radiation Oncology
- urology
- Dentistry and Oral Health
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Clinical departments:
- Clin. Dept. for tooth preservation, periodontology and dentures
- Clin. Dept. for Oral Surgery and Orthodontics
- Clin. Department for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
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Clinical departments:
Employee
- Medical staff: 1,484
- Nursing staff: 3,690
- total: 7,816
Services
- Outpatients: 436,934 *
- Inpatients: 83,282 *
- Length of stay: 5.1 days *
* As of 2018
Infrastructure
The main entrance to the State Hospital University Clinic Graz is located directly at the Holding Graz Linien-Station St. Leonhard / Klinikum Mitte. There you have connections to tram line 7 in the direction of Wetzelsdorf and LKH Med Uni / Klinikum Nord, to buses 41, 58, 64 / 64E and N7 as well as to regional buses 300, 331, 350, 360, 361, 400, 420, 460, 470 and 471 and to the express buses X30 and X40 to the Graz periphery and beyond.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ LKH - Univ. Graz Clinic | Key figures 2019 (PDF; 247 kB) (No longer available online.) LKH - Univ. Klinikum Graz, archived from the original on May 29, 2016 ; Retrieved May 29, 2016 . 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.
- ^ Norbert Weiss: The Graz University Hospital. An anniversary story in a hundred pictures. KAGes Verlag, Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-9502281-5-1 .
- ↑ Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft mbH: LKH-Univ. Klinikum Graz - history. Retrieved on February 23, 2010 (German).
- ↑ LKH - Univ. Graz Clinic: LKH - Univ. Graz Clinic | Key figures 2017. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 20, 2017 ; accessed on May 29, 2016 (German). 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.
- ↑ LKH - Univ. Klinikum Graz: Medical / nursing facilities. Retrieved on September 7, 2019 (German).
- ↑ LKH-Univ. Klinikum Graz (ed.): KEY FIGURES 2017 . S. 53 ( klinikum-graz.at [PDF]). KEY FIGURES 2017 ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 53.4 " N , 15 ° 27 ′ 57.6" E