University Hospital Würzburg

University Hospital Würzburg
Sponsorship	Free State of Bavaria ( Public law institution )
place	Würzburg - Grombühl
state	Bavaria
Country	Germany
Coordinates	49 ° 48 '3 "  N , 9 ° 57' 13"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '3 "  N , 9 ° 57' 13"  E
medical director	Georg Ertl
Care level	Maximum care hospital
beds	1430 (2014)
Employee	6114 (2014)
including doctors	848 (2014)
Affiliation	Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
founding	1581
Website	www.uk-wuerzburg.de

The University Hospital of Würzburg is the hospital of the Medical Faculty of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . It is a maximum care hospital and has an important mandate to provide care for the region and beyond.

Key figures

The Würzburg University Hospital has 19 clinics with polyclinics and three independent polyclinics as well as four clinical institutes. Four experimentally oriented institutes or departments are integrated. Furthermore, six vocational schools for health care are connected to the clinic. The University Hospital, together with the Julius Maximilians University, is the largest employer in Würzburg.

The clinic employs 6,114 people, of which 4,790 are full-time employees, including 848 in the medical service, 1236 in the nursing service, 1290 in the medical-technical service and 459 in the administrative service. The university hospital has 368 trainees. The quota of severely disabled people is 6.75%. (2014)

history

View of a "landmark" of the university hospital, the exhaust tower built in 1915 for the company's own thermal power station

Along with Prague , Heidelberg , Vienna , Cologne and Erfurt, Würzburg is one of the oldest university cities in German-speaking countries. The University Hospital Würzburg can look back on more than 400 years of history and is therefore one of the oldest university hospitals in Germany. The first model of a university clinic, the combination of the medical faculty and the Juliusspital hospital , was created in Würzburg in 1581. In 1583 a department for the inpatient treatment of mentally ill patients was opened in the Juliusspital for the first time. The first psychiatric clinic was built from this department in 1833 (a new building was built in 1982). In 1816 the first orthopedic hospital in the German-speaking area was added. This was founded by Johann Heine in the former Stefanskloster zu Würzburg.

The first separate children's department was set up in 1840 with two rooms and 15 beds. This children's department later formed the cornerstone for the foundation of the first university children's clinic in the world by Franz von Rinecker in 1850. The second chair for anatomical pathology in German-speaking countries was founded in Würzburg in 1845. The first was made a year earlier in Vienna.

In 1855, Robert Ritter von Welz founded the first, then private eye clinic in Würzburg, which was housed in the former obstetrics clinic in Klinikstrasse 6. When von Welz died in 1878, he bequeathed his clinic to the University of Würzburg. Under his successors, the clinic, now located on Josef-Schneider-Strasse, experienced a steep rise and is now the second largest eye clinic in Germany.

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen made another important contribution to the medical development of the Würzburg University Hospital in 1895 when he discovered X-rays in Würzburg.

In 1907 the magistrate approved the construction of a municipal hospital, which, in contrast to the existing Juliusspital, was not affiliated with any denomination. From the first groundbreaking on March 4, 1912 to 1921, a new clinic (named after Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria on March 1, 1911 initially "Luitpoldspital", later called Luitpoldkrankenhaus ) in the district was headed by August Lommel (head of the university building authority, senior government building officer) Grombühl built, for which purpose the city had acquired the area "am Sündlein" in 1910 for 550,000 marks. Completion was planned by 1917, but this was delayed by war and inflation. With the completion of the Luitpold Hospital, the long-term close relationship between the Würzburg Medical Faculty and the Juliusspital ended. The city of Würzburg contributed financially to the construction of the new hospital from 1910 to 1921, but then withdrew from the contract with the Bavarian state due to overload and thus renounced a city hospital and the Luitpold Hospital became a university clinic in the exclusive sponsorship of the Free State of Bavaria. The Luitpold Hospital was connected to the city center in 1926 through the expansion of the tram line . In 1934 the first independent neurosurgical department in Germany was founded. In the course of time the university hospital developed further.

In the Würzburg University Women's Clinic, which was newly built in 1933/34 and initially completed the complex of the Luitpold Hospital, a total of 994 women between the ages of 13 and 47 were forcibly sterilized from 1934, 29 women were also subjected to forced abortions.

On May 10, 1939, the Institute for Hereditary Science and Race Research was inaugurated at Klinikstrasse 6 in the Welzhaus, the building of the former private eye clinic of Robert Ritter von Welz, where, among other things, a house for epileptics was located in the 18th century.

In 1948 the first blood bank was produced in the surgical clinic. From 1950 blood donations were first produced in vacuum bottles and from that time on they were also given to other clinics. As a result of this progress, the Würzburg University Surgical Clinic had the first blood donation center in Bavaria, which was renamed in 1970 as the “Department of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology”.

From 1949 to 1950 the children's clinic, which was largely destroyed by the bombing of Würzburg, was rebuilt in "Building 8" and from 1959 to 1962 a new children's clinic was built. In 1954 the department for thoracic surgery was inaugurated and in 1955 a tuberculosis department. In 1956, W. Börner founded nuclear medicine as the isotope department of the Medical Polyclinic.

The first head clinic in Germany was built between 1966 and 1973 and opened in 1974 with the specialist disciplines ENT medicine, ophthalmology, neurosurgery, neurology and radiation therapy.

The hand surgeon Ulrich Lanz (son of the anatomist Titus von Lanz ) performed the first finger transplant in Bavaria, the reattachment of a sawn-off thumb, in 1975 at the Würzburg University Clinic on an eighteen-year-old. In 1977 the first independent department for neuroradiology was founded and in 1983 the department for cardiac and thoracic vascular surgery was established.

In 1988 the decision was made for a major project that had been planned since 1969. Due to a lack of space, plans were made to build the Center for Operative Medicine (ZOM) and the Center for Internal Medicine (ZIM) on Oberdürrbacher Straße. Construction for the Center for Operative Medicine began with the groundbreaking on July 27, 1998; the construction phase for the Center for Internal Medicine began in 2002. The ZOM went into operation in 2004 and the ZIM began operations in 2009. The patients were relocated from the old clinic buildings to the new centers in very complex moves in full operation. The old clinic buildings were partly demolished, but also partly renovated and are still used for research and teaching.

Several buildings of the Luitpold Hospital, the enclosing walls, gardens, the university gynecological clinic and midwifery school as well as the university head clinic are now protected monuments in the Würzburg-Grombühl district .

Facilities

• Clinics and Polyclinics:
  • Center for Internal Medicine (ZIM):
    • Medical Clinic and Polyclinic I
    • Medical Clinic and Polyclinic II
    • Institute for Clinical Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy
  • Center for Operative Medicine (ZOM):
    • Clinic and Polyclinic for Thoracic, Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery
    • Clinic and Polyclinic for General, Visceral, Vascular and Pediatric Surgery (Surgical Clinic I)
    • Clinic and Polyclinic for Trauma, Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Surgical Clinic II)
    • Clinic and Polyclinic for Urology and Pediatric Urology
    • Clinic and Polyclinic for Anaesthesiology
  • Center for Radiology
    • Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
    • Clinic and Polyclinic for Nuclear Medicine
    • Department of Neuroradiology of the Institute for X-ray Diagnostics
    • Radiotherapy Clinic and Polyclinic
  • Head clinic:
    • Eye clinic and polyclinic
    • Neurosurgical Clinic and Polyclinic
    • Clinic and polyclinic for ear, nose and throat diseases, plastic and aesthetic operations
    • Neurological Clinic and Polyclinic
  • Women's, children's, dermatological clinic:
    • Women's clinic and polyclinic
    • Children's clinic and polyclinic
    • Clinic and Polyclinic for Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology
  • Mental Health Center:
    • Clinic and polyclinic for child and adolescent psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy
    • Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy
  • Center for Dental, Oral and Jaw Health:
    • Polyclinic for Orthodontics
    • Clinic and polyclinic for oral and maxillofacial surgery
    • Polyclinic for Dental Prosthetics
    • Polyclinic for tooth preservation and periodontics

• Interdisciplinary institutes and chairs:
  • Institute for Clinical Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry
  • Institute for Clinical Neurobiology
  • Chair of Molecular Psychiatry
  • Department of Translational Oncology
  • Chair of Experimental Biomedicine
  • Chair for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
  • Central laboratory of the hospital
  • Department of functional materials in medicine and dentistry

• Interdisciplinary centers

• affiliated vocational schools

New buildings since 2000

The interior view of the Center for Operative Medicine

The building history of the two centers, the Center for Operative Medicine (ZOM) and the Center for Internal Medicine (ZIM), goes back to 1971. After an analysis of the existing structures, it was found that the spatial deficits in surgery and in medical clinics are particularly large. That is why the Faculty Council of the Medical Faculty decided in June 1988 to speak out in favor of a new building on Oberdürrbacher Strasse.

The groundbreaking for the first construction phase took place on July 27, 1998 by Edmund Stoiber . The Center for Operative Medicine started operations in March 2004. This was followed by the second construction phase with the center for internal medicine. The foundation stone for the ZIM was laid in December 2002. The ZIM was put into operation at the end of June 2009. The new building is roughly the size of the Würzburg Residence and is considered the largest building project in the Free State of Lower Franconia after the war. The construction costs of this project amounted to approx. 350 million euros.

Center for Operative Medicine (ZOM)

Center for Operative Medicine

The ZOM houses the two clinics for general and trauma surgery as well as the clinics for cardiac and thoracic surgery, urology and anesthesiology. On a total of approx. 20,000 m² of usable space there are 312 beds available for inpatient stays as well as beds for day-clinic treatment. In the ZOM there is a central emergency department that provides first aid for all patients. The ZOM has a shock room with an integrated CT . As a special feature, not the patient into the CT, but the CT is moved over the patient, which avoids additional damage caused by the patient's movement. The centre's helicopter landing pad is on the roof of ward A2 . An operating wing with 16 operating theaters is available for surgical interventions .

Center for Internal Medicine (ZIM)

The ZIM houses the Medical Clinic and Polyclinic I and II, the Clinic and Polyclinic for Nuclear Medicine, the Institute for Clinical Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry, as well as the Institute for X-ray Diagnostics and the Institute for Clinical Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy. Two whole-body magnetic resonance machines (3 Tesla MR machines) are available. A cyclotron costing three million euros was purchased for nuclear medicine . With this device it is now possible to produce special radionuclides yourself. A PET / CT machine is also available. The ZIM has a total usable area of ​​22,587 m². There are 260 beds available for inpatient stays and 41 day beds.

Simulation training

Since 2006, the Würzburg University Hospital has had a training and further education platform for surgical and interventional procedures in medicine, the INTUS. It has been based at the Center for Operative Medicine since 2009. The acronym stands for " In terdisziplinäres T rainings- u nd S imulationszentrum". While the use of flight simulators has long been established in aviation, especially in pilot training, simulation has only been used sporadically as a training method in medicine.

At INTUS, simulators and training systems are used as part of certified advanced training courses. In this way, doctors and prospective doctors can practice various surgical procedures and emergency situations and improve their mastery. The target group of INTUS are doctors from clinics and practices, nursing and assistants, clinic and practice teams, and emergency services. INTUS is conceptually and financially supported by a sponsoring association.

literature

• Arnulf Thiede , Norbert Roewer, Olaf Elert, Hubertus Riedmiller (eds.): Chronicle and vision. Center for Operative Medicine 2004 . University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-00-013537-5 .

Web links

• Clinic website
• Quality report 2017 (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Law on University Hospitals of the Free State of Bavaria
2. ↑ Institutions ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2010 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. 
3. ↑ The Clinic through the Ages ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2012 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. 
4. ^ Otto Schrappe: Psychiatry in Würzburg and Psychiatric University Clinic Würzburg in the last five decades. In: Otto Schrappe, Gerhardt Nissen (Ed.): University Psychiatric Clinic. Contributions on the occasion of the commissioning of the new building. Würzburg 1982, pp. 51-64; also in: Gerhardt Nissen, Gundolf Keil (Hrsg.): Psychiatry on the way to science. Stuttgart 1985, pp. 62-72.
5. ↑ History of the Koenig-Ludwig-Haus ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2011 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. 
6. ^ History of Pathology
7. ↑ Historical development of the University Eye Clinic ( Memento of the original dated June 11, 2011 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. 
8. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1235.
9. ↑ Hans-Peter Baum : Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria (1821-1912) and the city of Würzburg. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), pp. 173-176; here: p. 176.
10. ^ Harm-Hinrich Brandt : Würzburg municipal policy 1869-1918. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), pp. 64–166 and 1254–1267, here: pp. 139 and 144–148.
11. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 196-289 and 1271-1290; here: p. 249.
12. ^ Nazi atrocities against patients in the "sanatoriums and nursing homes". In: sueddeutsche.de. July 23, 2017, accessed March 21, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Supplement 3; also dissertation Würzburg 1995), ISBN 3-88479-932-0 , p. 13 ff.
14. ^ Wilhelm Künzer: Würzburg memories of the time from 1945 to 1962. In: Würzburger medical history reports. Volume 16, 1997, pp. 123-129; here: pp. 125–127.
15. ↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , pp. 34 and 332.
16. ^ Karl-Heinz Weis: On the planning history of the surgical-operative center of the medical faculty of the University of Würzburg. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 89-104.
17. ↑ History of the University Hospital Würzburg ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2011 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. 
18. ↑ Medical Clinic and Polyclinic I ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2011 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. 
19. ↑ Medical Clinic and Polyclinic II ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2012 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. 
20. ^ Institute for Clinical Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy
21. ↑ Clinic and Polyclinic for Thoracic, Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery ( Memento of the original dated February 29, 2012 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. 
22. ↑ Clinic and Polyclinic for General, Visceral, Vascular and Pediatric Surgery
23. ↑ Clinic and Polyclinic for Trauma, Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Surgical Clinic II) ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 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. 
24. ↑ Clinic and Polyclinic for Urology and Pediatric Urology ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
25. ↑ Clinic and Polyclinic for Anaesthesiology ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2012 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. 
26. ↑ http://www.radiologie.ukw.de/startseite.html
27. ↑ http://www.nuklearmedizin.ukw.de/startseite.html
28. ↑ http://www.neuroradiologie.ukw.de/startseite.html
29. ↑ http://www.strahlentherapie.ukw.de/startseite.html
30. ↑ Eye Clinic and Polyclinic ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2011 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. 
31. ↑ Neurosurgery Clinic and Polyclinic ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2012 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. 
32. ↑ Clinic and Polyclinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Plastic and Aesthetic Operations ( Memento of the original from November 7th, 2011 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. 
33. ↑ Neurological Clinic and Polyclinic ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2011 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. 
34. ↑ Frauenklinik and Poliklinik ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2012 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. 
35. ↑ Children's Clinic and Polyclinic ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2011 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. 
36. ↑ Clinic and Polyclinic for Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2011 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. 
37. ↑ Clinic and Polyclinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2011 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. 
38. ↑ Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2011 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. 
39. ↑ Polyclinic for Orthodontics ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 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. 
40. ↑ Clinic and Polyclinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 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. 
41. ↑ Polyclinic for Dental Prosthetics ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 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. 
42. ↑ Polyclinic for Tooth Preservation and Periodontology ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 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. 
43. ↑ Institute for Clinical Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 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. 
44. ↑ Institute for Clinical Neurobiology ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 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. 
45. ↑ http://www.molecularpsychiatry.ukw.de/startseite.html
46. ↑ http://www.translational-oncology.ukw.de/startseite.html
47. ↑ Chair for Experimental Biomedicine ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2013 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. 
48. ↑ Chair for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2011 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. 
49. ↑ Department of Functional Materials in Medicine and Dentistry ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 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. 
50. ↑ Interdisciplinary Centers ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2011 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. 
51. ↑ Affiliated vocational schools ( memento of the original from October 8, 2011 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. 
52. ^ Karl-Heinz Weis: On the planning history of the surgical-operative center of the medical faculty of the University of Würzburg. In: Würzburger medical history reports 22, 2003, pp. 89-104.
53. ↑ INTUS
54. ↑ non-profit association INTUS Würzburg e. V.