Hemer Lung Clinic
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| Sponsorship | German Community Diakonieverband |
| place | Hemer |
| state | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 23 ′ 31 ″ N , 7 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E |
| medical director | Hans-Peter Kemmer |
| Care level | Basic service A-1.3.1 |
| beds | 240 A-1.5 |
| Employee | 389 B-2.7 |
| including doctors | 42 B-2.7 |
| areas of expertise | Pneumology, thoracic surgery, radiology, anesthesia |
| founding | 1949 |
| Website | www.lungenklinik-hemer.com |
The Hemer Lung Clinic is a specialist pulmonary hospital with the departments of pulmonology , thoracic surgery , radiology / radiation therapy and anesthesia . A research institute with a focus on tumor biology has also been part of the Lung Clinic since 1996 .
history
The building of today's lung clinic was built as an official hospital and inaugurated in 1908. Towards the end of the 1930s, the military set up the hospital as an on-site hospital; after the troops were mobilized, it was converted into a reserve hospital. The building was badly damaged in attacks by the Allies. The German Community Diakonieverband sent Hans Meyer , who remained head of administration of the clinic for 34 years, together with some deaconesses from the Bleibergquelle parent company to rebuild and reopen it in Hemer.
In 1949 the first lung operation took place in Hemer, with which the specialization of the clinic took on concrete form. In the second half of the 1950s, the building was expanded to include new functional areas, a staff dormitory and new patient beds. In 1963 the cobalt cannon was first used in Hemer. The radiology department was established as the first specialist station in 1980 and equipped with computed tomography and nuclear medicine . Two years later the clinic was expanded again.
The basic division of the pulmonary clinic into the areas of pulmonology and thoracic surgery was established in 1985. Major construction and renovation work towards the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s resulted in a new operating room as well as a modern intensive care unit, a laboratory and a physiotherapy area. With the opening of a research institute for experimental pulmonology, thoracic surgery and tumor biology in 1996, the diagnosis and treatment of lung diseases should be improved on site.
An MRI was put into operation in 1998, also the end of the 1990s was an isolation ward for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis built. In the new millennium, the clinic caused a sensation with some prominent patients. In 2002, the first SARS case in Germany was treated in the lung clinic. Since the typical symptoms of fever and cough occurred in a 72-year-old after a stay in Asia, he was admitted to the isolation ward of the lung clinic. After a few weeks he was released again in good health. A year later, the former Dortmund soccer player Lothar Emmerich was referred to Hemer for lung cancer .
In 2003, the last deaconesses who had shaped the image of the clinic since it was founded in 1948 left the clinic. The first ward nurse who did not belong to the deaconesses, for example, was only employed in 1981. The lung clinic received the proCum Cert certificate in September 2005. A year later, senior physician Michael Westhoff was awarded the Science Prize of the German Society for Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine for research on ion mobility spectrometers .
The pulmonary clinic took on a pioneering role in 2006 when they used the “Meltavoltage Cone Beam” therapy in November. The method was only released six months earlier.
Departments
The "Pneumology" department is responsible for diseases of the respiratory tract , the middle , chest and diaphragm . A sleep laboratory was set up to support diagnostics in 1994 , which was expanded until 2005 and has since been one of the largest in Germany.
In the area of “thoracic surgery”, lung cancer , lung metastases , pneumothorax , pulmonary emphysema , diseases of the trachea or mediastinal organs and the funnel chest are treated. In order to avoid large scars and later side effects, the pulmonary clinic is currently increasingly using the minimally invasive surgical technique of endoscopy .
The “Radiology / Radiation Therapy” department supports diagnostics in the other two medical fields. In addition to conventional radiology, angiography , magnetic resonance computer tomography and positron emission tomography are available. A separate anesthesia department takes care of anesthesia and pain therapy.
In the in-house research institute, doctors, physicists, engineers and biologists work in the field of tumor biology. They should improve the diagnosis and look for the lowest possible risk therapy options.
There is also a cooperation with the pathology department at the TiergartenPathologische Hannover.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b General structural and performance data , PDF file
- ↑ a b Cross-departmental structural and performance data of the hospital , PDF file
- ↑ Anja Schöppe: 60 years ago: The first lung operation in Hemer. Open day at the Hemer Lung Clinic (PDF; 2.0 MB), DGD-Netzwerk 1/2010; S. IV
- ^ "Put in the light: Hans Meyer" , IKZ of October 10, 2007
- ^ "First confirmed SARS case in a lung clinic", IKZ from April 1, 2003
- ^ "SARS patient discharged from the clinic", IKZ from April 11th
- ↑ “Sharing the Gospel with Patients”, IKZ August 18, 2003
- ^ "Optimization is the goal", IKZ from September 22, 2005
- ^ "Science Award for Research Team", IKZ from April 19, 2006
- ^ "New method in radiation therapy", IKZ from November 3, 2006
- ^ "Dangerous respiratory arrest in the bedroom", IKZ of October 23, 2005
- ↑ Cooperations with the Hemer Lung Clinic