Marienhaus

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Marienhaus group of companies
legal form GmbH
founding 1903
Seat Waldbreitbach
management Management: Marianne Meyer, Günter Merschbächer, Heinz-Jürgen Scheid
Number of employees 13,800
Website www.marienhaus.de

The Marienhaus group of companies with the leading Marienhaus Holding GmbH is a church health company that u. a. Operates hospitals, retirement and nursing homes, hospices and educational institutions.

history

The history of the Marienhaus Group is closely linked to the history of the Franciscan Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Angels (Waldbreitbach Franciscan Sisters). This congregation was founded by Rosa Flesch in Waldbreitbach in 1863 . Since then, the headquarters of the community has been the Marienhaus monastery , which gave the group its name. From the beginning, the Waldbreitbach Franciscan Sisters also worked in nursing. The first constitutions from 1869 stated: “The sisters are committed to the works of active charity: to raise poor, abandoned children, as far as possible, free of charge and, even after leaving school, to train women to be virtuous, hardworking people in handicrafts, poor people To care for sick and old abandoned people free of charge in and outside the home. "

As early as 1903, the various activities of the order were combined in the Marienhaus GmbH . The purpose of the company was the "establishment and management of hospitals and other charitable institutions and the utilization of the properties belonging to the same in order to be able to achieve this purpose".

The activities of the Marienhaus group were gradually expanded through the establishment of their own or the takeover of existing hospitals. In 2011, the community of Waldbreitbach Franciscan Sisters founded the Marienhaus Foundation , based in Neuwied, into which the economic assets of the congregation were brought. The foundation associated with the Congregation has the legal form of an ecclesiastical foundation under civil law. The purpose of the foundation is to promote the works of Christian charity. This purpose is achieved through

  • Promotion and support of welfare work,
  • Promotion and support of the public health system, in particular health care,
  • Promotion and support of care for the elderly and the disabled as well as social and vocational rehabilitation,
  • Promotion and support of child and youth welfare,
  • Promotion and support of teaching and research, education and training and
  • Promotion and support of the order of the Waldbreitbach Franciscan Sisters and the sisters belonging to them in healthy, sick and old days.

This foundation model was intended to ensure the future economic viability of the corporate group independently of that of the order. Also in 2011, the community of Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Family brought their institutions in the field of care for the elderly and the sick, so that the Marienhaus group continues the traditions of both congregations in the charitable area today.

On October 11, 2017, the first nationwide strike by nursing staff at a church-sponsored hospital took place at the Marienhaus-Klinikum Ottweiler.

Facilities

The group's facilities are located in North Rhine-Westphalia , Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland .

Clinics

Marienhausklinik St. Josef in Losheim am See

further activities

In addition to the hospitals, the group operates 20 old people's and nursing homes, ten hospices , three child and youth welfare facilities , several nursing schools , seminar houses and service facilities (including for building services, cleaning, sterile goods processing, logistics and medical technology).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Marienhaus Group, accessed on April 24, 2014
  2. ↑ Purpose of the Marienhaus Foundation, accessed on April 24, 2014
  3. ^ Matthias Kaufmann: Employee uprising: first strike at a Catholic hospital. In: Spiegel Online . October 11, 2017, accessed June 10, 2018 .