Luisenhospital Aachen
| Luisenhospital Aachen | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | Evangelical Hospital Association in Aachen from 1867 |
| place | Aachen |
| state | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 46 '5 " N , 6 ° 4' 37" E |
| management | Ralf Wenzel |
| beds | 348 |
| Employee | about 1500 |
| including doctors | approx. 130 without attending doctors |
| areas of expertise | 11 |
| founding | 1867 |
| Website | http://luisenhospital.de/ |
The Luisenhospital Aachen is a Protestant hospital in Aachen with 348 beds, 11 specialist departments and 12 centers and is located at Boxgraben No. 99 in Aachen, not far from the DB stop at Aachen Schanz . The hospital, founded in 1867 with the support of the Aachen Association for the Promotion of Labor and with 144 beds, was named after Queen Luise of Prussia . It has been an academic teaching hospital of the Aachen University Hospital since 1977 and maintains a health and nursing school and a midwifery training institution , both of which have been combined in the "Christian Educational Academy for Health Professions Aachen GmbH" since 2014. In addition, a nursing home for the elderly as well as an attached rehabilitation clinic under the name "Haus Cadenbach" are housed on the hospital grounds. There is also an independent social service that works with the patient and in cooperation with the treating staff to provide assistance appropriate to the individual situation.
The “Treffpunkt Luise” in the house serves as a public facility, which is an independent department responsible for courses, lectures and seminars, among other things, for health care, rehabilitation, stress management, pregnancy exercises and other similar topics. The "Caféhaus Luise" takes care of the physical well-being of the patients and visitors.
In the building complex, the emergency practice of the resident doctors for the Aachen City area of the North Rhine Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and a recognized breast center were set up. In the pharmacy of the hospital is the emergency depot for vaccines and antidotes of the Chamber of Pharmacists for the Aachen city region .
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The Luisen Hospital is sponsored by the non-profit Evangelical Hospital Association of Aachen from 1867 . He maintains the Luisenhospital as well as the medical-geriatric rehabilitation clinic Haus Cadenbach and the nursing home Haus Cadenbach. In addition, the association is responsible for the nursing school founded in 1901 and the midwifery school. A total of around 15,000 patients are treated in the association's facilities each year. Your care covers all levels of care, including nursing, geriatric rehabilitation and care for the elderly.
The board of directors, which consists of a chairman, a managing director and five other members, is responsible for the business of the sponsoring association. Opposite it is the supervisory board, which, as in the early days of the company, includes seven people from public life and industry. Well-known personalities have headed the board of directors for the last 150 years, including the co-founder of the sponsoring association and wool manufacturer Gottfried Pastor , the cloth manufacturers Hans Croon , Oskar Erckens and Carl Delius , the deputy district president Robert von Görschen as well as the judge Hugo Cadenbach and his son the banker Hugo Cadenbach .
He is supported by the friends and sponsors of the Luisenhospitals Aachen e. V. “, which was founded in 1983. He is particularly committed to
- financial support for projects not funded by the state
- the financial support of education and training opportunities
- the implementation of patient-oriented projects
- the strengthening of voluntary services
history
In March 1867, under the leadership of Kommerzienrat Gottfried Pastor and Otto Eugen Mayer, 34 Protestant residents of Aachen and Burtscheid, mostly industrialists and entrepreneurs, met to found the sponsoring association and set up a Protestant hospital. With the help of the Aachen Association for the Promotion of Labor, it was initially possible to rent a private house in which the first patients were treated in September 1868. In 1870 the sponsoring association was able to acquire a building site on Boxgraben, on which the new hospital was built with thalers made available by the private individuals involved, including Philipp Heinrich Cockerill . On September 15, 1874, the new hospital received permission to accept patients and was inaugurated with the name Luisenhospital. In 1882 a first extension was built according to plans by Karl Henrici , in which the adjoining pension scheme was housed.
As early as its 50th anniversary in 1924, the hospital accommodated around 2,500 patients annually with 220 beds. In 1928 a Protestant hospital chapel was set up in the building , which was the only Protestant church building in the city of Aachen to remain intact after the destruction of the Second World War . When, at the beginning of the war, the hospital, like all the others in Aachen, was to be completely vacated as a military hospital for war casualties, Eduard Borcher's chief surgeon in particular refused to discharge or evacuate his patients, some of whom were unfit for transport. A few months later, an order from Berlin was issued that a corresponding urgent use of these premises was no longer planned after the campaign in the west, which had ended in the summer of 1940 and was successfully conducted . Nevertheless, it took several weeks until after an intervention by the internist Erwin Moos with Hermann Göring, full hospital operations could be resumed by the staff of the Luisen Hospital for the city population.
Following the years of reconstruction after the war, the number of patients increased significantly and the medical and technical possibilities also improved. After the existing premises could no longer do justice to this circumstance, the sponsoring association decided on a modern new building, which was designed according to plans by the architect Benno Schachner and moved into in 1972. Further extensive extensions were built by 1989, including for the X-ray department and physical therapy, as well as for the Cadenbach house.
In the 125th anniversary year of 1992, the hospital finally had 389 beds with around 13,000 patients and around 1,250 births, as well as around 650 occupancies per year for the Cadenbach house. In 2005, the Haus Cadenbach nursing home for the elderly received approval for a new five-story building at the rear of the main building, which the Nesseler Grünzig Group was commissioned to build. The inauguration took place in 2007. This new building houses the actual care area with single and double rooms for a total of 72 senior citizens.
Departments
The current 11 departments have an eventful history behind them. In the course of time they have been restructured several times, a few have been dissolved and others have been added. For the interdisciplinary treatments, twelve certified centers, some of them with supra-regional status, have been set up within the house, and contracts have been concluded with seven consulting services .
In addition to the orthopedics that existed from 1924 to 1934, the disbanded specialist departments also included the Dermatology Clinic with 32 beds, which was established in 1936 and was given up in 1988 because both the surgical and vascular surgery clinics urgently needed the premises and beds. After the dermatology department was dissolved, the two surgical clinics each received 16 beds.
Medical clinic
The medical clinic is one of the founding departments of the house and comprises 133 beds on five wards, including six intensive care beds. In addition to general internal medical care, it focuses on the following:
As part of the interdisciplinary support with the other departments and with other hospitals or specialist practices, the Euregio Hernia Center founded in 2011 and other certified centers for intestinal diseases, oncology and cystic fibrosis (since 2005), and also for lungs and thyroid (since 2010) and bundled the necessary medical measures for diabetes.
Surgical Clinic
The surgical clinic is also one of the founding departments and has 79 beds on three wards, including three intensive care beds. In addition to general surgery, the following focuses are established:
The already mentioned surgeon Eduard Borchers was one of the most famous heads of the department , along with Wilhelm Müller , who worked here as chief physician from 1888 to 1901, and led it through the difficult war years from 1929 to 1955. In doing so, he could not prevent that he, as one of the doctors authorized under the law to prevent hereditary diseases, had to perform forced sterilization . The later known doctors Cuno Winkler and Leo Koslowski worked as assistant doctors under Borchers after the war. In 1948 Winkler carried out the first radio-iodine therapy for metastatic thyroid cancer in Europe at the Luisenhospital . In 1953, the Luisenkrankenhaus appointed Eduard Borchers as President of the German Society for Surgery .
Clinic for Trauma Surgery and Orthopedics
The trauma was removed as part of the surgery and the acute hospital from the Department of Surgery and extended by the Department of Orthopedics. The independent orthopedic department was given up in 1934 after more than ten years of existence, as the then up-and-coming surgical clinic under Eduard Borchers wanted to use the premises for its own purposes. The head of orthopedics, Friedrich Pauwels , was then referred by the acting chairman of the sponsoring association, Judge Hugo Cadenbach, to the Aachen City Hospitals , where he was able to set up his own orthopedic clinic and worked there until 1960.
The Clinic for Trauma Surgery and Orthopedics has meanwhile been certified as an endoprosthetics center and also focuses on geriatric traumatology . The department has been the medical partner of Alemannia Aachen since 2011 .
Clinic for Vascular Surgery
The Vascular Surgery Clinic was separated from General Surgery and Trauma Surgery in 1984 and set up independently. With 51 beds to begin with, it was one of the largest facilities of its kind in Germany. It comprises 60 beds in two wards including three intensive care beds. In 2004 the department received the seal of approval from the German Society for Vascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine with the certificate as a recognized vascular center. In addition to general vascular surgery , the clinic focuses on treatments and operations
- in diseases of the carotid arteries
- on the abdominal artery
- for circulatory disorders
- for varicose veins and leg vein thrombosis
- in arterial occlusive disease
- in diabetes mellitus
Clinic for Gynecology
The gynecological clinic was founded in 1920 as the "Obstetrical-Gynecological Department" with the participation of its first medical director, Erich Zurhelle, who was in office from 1920 to 1952 . He was also one of the doctors in the house who were authorized to carry out compulsory sterilizations in accordance with the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring. In this context, however, he refused the request to carry out abortions in "Eastern workers".
After the renovation in the 1970s, the department was reorganized into a clinic for gynecology with 49 beds on three wards including two intensive care beds and the clinic for obstetrics. The Interdisciplinary Clinic for Gynecology includes the Breast Center, recognized in 2005 in cooperation with the University Hospital Aachen, and the Center for Reconstructive Surgery of Female Sexual Characteristics, certified in 2014.
Obstetrics Clinic
The Clinic for Obstetrics was created by separating out of the "Obstetrical-Gynecological Department" and in 1973 moved into its own wing in the new building complex. She works closely with the midwifery school founded in 1983. In 2016, new delivery rooms were presented for the maternity ward, which meet the latest standards.
Clinic for Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery
The Clinic for Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery was established in 1998 and has 18 beds. Your focus is on
Radiological Clinic
The radiological clinic is one of the oldest departments in the house and was significantly supported in 1897 by the industrialist family Cockerill, whose donations made it possible to purchase the latest X-ray machines at the time. Today, state-of-the-art equipment is operated and all conventional radiology is carried out using a digital image processing system. The department and its devices are available to both inpatients and outpatients.
Clinic for anesthesia and operative intensive care medicine
The clinic for anesthesia and operative intensive care medicine was set up as an independent department in 1971. Before that, the anesthetists were part of the team in the individual departments. The department has had the latest anesthesia machines since 1988 and all methods of modern anesthesia are used for all age groups.
Entitlement Clinic ENT
The ear, nose and throat clinic was established at the Luisenhospital as early as 1905 and was initially headed for 38 years by Hans Henrici, the son of the urban planner and architect Karl Henrici. After the department had around 30 beds in the 1960s, there are currently only 18 beds. In addition, the area has meanwhile been expanded as a private hospital for resident specialists.
Attending clinic eyes
The eye clinic is one of the founding departments of the house and has six beds. In addition, it is certified as a cataract center and is also available to resident specialists as an affiliated clinic.
Consulting services
The Luisenhospital receives external consultation services in seven departments, with the pain therapy area being regulated internally by the pain center. The consultation services in the areas of dialysis, neurosurgery, pediatrics, urology, orthopedics and dermatology are provided by resident doctors.
Another in-house service, which also includes the geriatric hospital and the rehabilitation clinic, is the palliative medical consultation service.
House Cadenbach
Haus Cadenbach is a community facility consisting of a nursing home with an attached medical geriatric rehabilitation clinic and is named after the two former supervisory board chairmen Hugo Cadenbach, father and son. It is regarded as a therapeutic addition to the "old age pension fund" that has existed since 1880 and was set up in 1975 and was initially designed for 40 beds. As part of the health reform of 1989 , the continuation of rehabilitation was approved by a contract with the regional health insurance associations. The principle of activating therapeutic care in the form was one old sick home with rehabilitation department as "Aachen Model" by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , the Rhineland Regional Council and the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs supports and house Cadenbach was the first house in NRW, as of July 1 July 1990 was able to conclude the supply contract with the health insurance associations.
The residents in Haus Cadenbach can be looked after by their family doctor or use the services of the acute hospital. In 1989 the house Cadenbach moved into the new extension, which is designed for 60 beds and 20 beds for a day clinic and is equipped with a new therapeutic swimming pool as well as facilities for occupational , logo and physical therapy .
literature
- Konrad Simons: 125 years of the Evangelical Hospital Association in Aachen , Georgi, Aachen 1992
- Anton Sterzl : The long way of Hugo Cadenbach , Brimberg, Aachen 2001
Web links
- Official website
- 2012 annual report from June 12, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Kühl: Leading Aachen Clinic Doctors and their Role in the Third Reich, Study of the Aachen Competence Center for the History of Science , Volume 11, Ed .: Dominik Groß, Diss. RWTH Aachen 2010, pp. 64–86 and others, ISBN 978-3-86219 -014-0 pdf
- ↑ Press release from Alemannia Aachen on February 24, 2011
- ↑ Carola Döbber: Political chief physicians? New studies on the Aachen medical profession in the 20th century . Study by the Aachen Competence Center for the History of Science, Volume 14, Ed .: Dominik Groß, Diss. RWTH Aachen 2012, pp. 46–53, ISBN 978-3-86219-338-7 pdf
- ^ Sina Stieding: Maternity ward with new delivery rooms opened in the Luisenhospital , in: Aachener Zeitung of October 25, 2016
