Provincial Hospital (Austria)

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In Austria, public-law hospitals that are run by the federal states are called state hospitals or state clinics . The abbreviation commonly used is "LKH" or "LK".

history

The development of the system of regional hospitals in Austria was not uniform. At different times, existing community or district hospitals were placed under the leadership of the state.

The first hospital to be rebuilt under the name "Landeskrankenhaus" is the LKH Graz . Its construction was decided by the Styrian Landtag in 1888, started in 1904 and completed in 1912.

In the 1980s, the federal states began to outsource their hospitals into their own companies, which remained 100 percent owned. It was not until 2004 that the state of Lower Austria switched to state clinics. It was only from this point in time until 2008 that the existing community hospitals were taken over by the state's holding company. One reason for this development is the savings potential that lies in the common central administration of hospitals. Associated with this were specializations with the closure of individual departments if a corresponding one was available in a neighboring hospital.

Today almost all specialty hospitals are state-owned, only in Tyrol there are still large district hospitals that belong to the municipalities of the district. There are also religious hospitals (e.g. in Eisenstadt, Schwarzach, St.Veit / Glan), which guarantee basic care, as well as the seven accident hospitals sponsored by AUVA . The Linz General Hospital and the Dornbirn Hospital are the last large urban hospitals outside Vienna, plus the community hospitals in Hallein and Oberndorf in Salzburg.

The last hospitals to be taken over by a state are those of Mittersill and Tamsweg, which came to the state of Salzburg in 2008. For organizational reasons, however, these were not integrated into the Salzburg State Clinics (SALK) and are now managed directly by the state. In 2008 the Wiener Neustadt and Neunkirchen hospital also moved from the municipality to the state holding company. In 2011, a joint LKH was formed from the district hospital and the Hall in Tyrol psychiatric hospital.

From 2011 to 2013, the Styrian district amalgamations also enabled the organizational amalgamation of state hospitals such as Feldbach-Fürstenfeld, Judenburg-Knittelfeld, Rottenmann-Bad Aussee and Mürzzuschlag-Mariazell. Each hospital group eventually became a LKH.

carrier

In Austria, every federal state operates its hospitals through a national company or holding. The oldest companies have Vorarlberg and Styria, the youngest Lower Austria, which only placed the regional hospitals under such a management company in 2004.

country Surname abbreviation founding Seat
Vienna City of Vienna - Vienna Hospital Association KAV 2002 Vienna
Lower Austria Lower Austrian regional clinic holding LKNOE 2004 St. Polten
Upper Austria Upper Austrian Health Holding GmbH OÖG 2018 Linz
Salzburg Non-profit Salzburger Landeskliniken Betriebsgesellschaft mbH SALK 1998/2004 Salzburg
Tyrol Tirol Kliniken GmbH 1990 innsbruck
Vorarlberg Vorarlberger Krankenhaus-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH KHBG 1979 Feldkirch
Carinthia Kärntner Landeskrankenanstalten-Betriebsgesellschaft , institution under public law KABEG 1993 Klagenfurt
Styria Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft mbH KAGes 1985 Graz
Burgenland Burgenland Hospital GesmbH KRAGES 1992 Eisenstadt

The respective state health councils in the state governments are responsible for these societies .

Those state hospitals, which are also university clinics, are also financed by the Ministry of Science, doctors receive partial salaries from society and the university.

General

Depending on the situation and size, there is a regional hospital for the standard care of the population in each political district . This hospital is not always located in the district capital. B. the LKH Rottenmann in the Liezen district . Additional specialist departments such as maternity wards and surgery are distributed according to catchment area. There are protests again and again when individual departments are closed.

Special

In addition, specialist clinics such as state neurological clinics, orthopedic hospitals, state care centers (LPZ) and state nursing homes (LPH) are owned by the states. Some of these houses were also built as a result of the realignment of former lung healing facilities (in Styria, for example: Hörgas, Enzenbach and Stolzalpe), which were no longer needed after the tuberculosis period. These institutions were also known as regional special hospitals (LSKH). However, since the term was often equated with state neurological clinic, it had a bad reputation and is no longer used today.

Termination of pregnancy

After years of no political will that the state's own hospitals also carry out abortions , it took until April 2005 when the Salzburg governor, Gabi Burgstaller, set up an abortion clinic at the Salzburg Regional Hospital . As a result, Styria and Lower Austria also made this operation possible in their hospitals. In the remaining federal states, this is only possible at private institutions.

List of state hospitals

Logo of the KAV

Vienna

Since Vienna is a federal state and a municipality at the same time, the city hospitals are also state hospitals, but do not have this name.

Lower Austria

The Landeskliniken-Holding was founded in 2004, many clinics were only handed over to the state by municipalities and municipal associations from this point in time. This is why the term LKH does not have such a long history in Lower Austria, and the more modern "Landesklinikum" was chosen. Before that, the name LKH only existed in Mödling (1956–2002) and Mauer (1966–1999).

Upper Austria

Logo spag

Sponsorship of the Upper Austria. Health and Spitals AG (spag):

outsourced:

The AKh Linz (today part of the Kepler University Hospital) was operated by a company of the city of Linz, the UKH Linz operates the AUVA. The other hospitals in Linz and those in Braunau, Ried im Innkreis and the Grieskirchen-Wels Association are religious hospitals.

Salzburg

In 2008, the two hospitals in the municipalities of Mittersill and Tamsweg in Salzburg were taken over directly by the state, but not incorporated into the SALK.

The A.ö. Zell am See hospital is run by a private company, the Hallein and Oberndorf hospitals by the municipality, and the Cardinal Schwarzenberg Clinic in Schwarzach im Pongau by the Sisters of Charity .

Tyrol

Logo Tirol Kliniken

The district hospitals in St. Johann , Lienz , Kufstein and Reutte are run by community associations, the St. Vinzenz Zams Hospital by the Sisters of Charity.

Vorarlberg

LKH Feldkirch - View of the new wing

The Dornbirn Hospital is operated by the City of Dornbirn .

Carinthia

Logo of the KABEG

The A.ö. The hospital in Spittal / Drau is operated by a private limited liability company, the hospital in St.Veit / Glan by the Brothers of Mercy. Other religious hospitals are the Deutsch-Ordens-Spital Friesach and the Elisabethinen Hospital in Klagenfurt.

Styria

Logo of the KAGes

In Styria, almost all major hospitals are state-owned.

  • LKH Bad Radkersburg
  • LKH Feldbach-Fürstenfeld
  • LKH University Hospital Graz
  • LKH Graz II (locations Enzenbach, Hörgas, south and west )
  • LKH Hartberg
  • LKH Hochsteiermark (Bruck and Leoben)
  • LKH Judenburg-Knittelfeld
  • LKH Mürzzuschlag-Mariazell
  • LKH Rottenmann-Bad Aussee
  • LKH Stolzalpe
  • LKH Wagna
  • LKH Weststeiermark (Deutschlandsberg and Voitsberg)
  • LKH Weiz

A.ö. There are also religious hospitals in Graz ( hospital of the Elisabethinen Graz , hospitals of the Barmherzigen Brüder Graz ), in Vorau ( Marienkrankenhaus Vorau ) and in Schladming a deaconess hospital . The last two are also acute hospitals for the respective region.

Burgenland

KRAGES logo

Most of the hospitals in Burgenland belong to the state, but have never been called the LKH.

  • A.ö. KH Güssing
  • A.ö. Ladislaus Batthyány-Strattmann-KH Kittsee
  • A.ö. KH Oberpullendorf
  • A.ö. KH Oberwart

The state capital's hospital is not a state hospital , but a hospital of the Brothers of Mercy .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 years LKH-Univ. Graz Clinic
  2. ↑ History of the Tamsweg Hospital ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.kh-tamsweg.at
  3. ^ LKH Mariazell becomes regional health center , ORF on December 18, 2013.
  4. ^ Merger of the Feldbach and Fürstenfeld hospitals. Kleine Zeitung , December 27, 2011, archived from the original on February 24, 2014 . ;.
  5. ↑ Abortions from April in the special outpatient clinic in the Salzburg LKH . News.at on January 5th, 2005.
  6. ↑ Where are abortions performed? ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / abtrieb.at archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. abtrieb.at (link no longer available, 2017).
  7. ↑ Chronik Mödling ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Baden-Mödling State Hospital @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moedling.lknoe.at
  8. ^ Chronicle of the Wall State Hospital Wall
  9. ↑ Takeover of the hospitals of the municipalities ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Salzburg State Audit Office @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.salzburg.gv.at
  10. ↑ BKH Schwaz Betriebsgesellschaft mbH ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Homepage of the district hospital Schwaz @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kh-schwaz.at
  11. ↑ The way from "Spittl" to the A. ö. Hospital Spittal / Drau ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , A.ö. Hospital in Spittal / Drau @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.khspittal.com
  12. ↑ Our hospital , Marienkrankenhaus Vorau

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