Marienhospital Aachen
| Marienhospital Aachen | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | Catholic Foundation Marienhospital Aachen |
| place | Aachen |
| state | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 45 '46 " N , 6 ° 5' 47" E |
| management | Benjamin M. Koch |
| beds | 321 |
| areas of expertise | 11 |
| founding | 1853 |
| Website | http://www.marienhospital.de |
The Marienhospital Aachen is a Catholic hospital in the Aachen district of Burtscheid . As an acute hospital , as a standard care hospital and as an academic teaching hospital of RWTH Aachen University, it comprises 321 beds. The Marienhospital is divided into 7 specialist clinics, 4 affiliated clinics , 2 specialist centers and 3 consulting services. The management is incumbent on the board of directors consisting of the chairman of the board, the managing director, the medical director and the nursing director. In 1996, it was one of the first hospitals in Germany to be accepted into the "German Network of Health Promoting Hospitals - a network of the World Health Organization".
In the inner park of the building complex, the Marienhospital is home to Aachen's only baby hatch .
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The sponsor is the Catholic Foundation Marienhospital Aachen , which, as a modern health and social center, has a wide range of services and offers. In addition to the Marienhospital, these include the attached Marienwohnstift Hans-Lorenz-Haus (MWA) and the Home Care Service Center (SHP), as well as senior centers in Eilendorf and Büsbach , as well as the "Center for Health Promotion" (ZGF) founded in 1989, the rehabilitation clinic " At the Rosenquelle ”and the outpatient rehabilitation center. In addition, the foundation is responsible for the practice center at Marienhospital and the “Breast Center Aachen- Kreis Heinsberg ” as well as the “Educational Institute for Professions in Health Care” founded in 1925.
The foundation is managed by a board of directors consisting of the chairman of the board, the managing director and several department heads. He is supported by the 13-member supervisory board, which is the highest body of the foundation and has been led by Monsignor Heribert August since 1984 .
In addition, a development association was founded in 1998 to provide financial support to obtain the necessary funds for investments and measures.
Departments
Clinics
- Medical clinic
- Clinic for General and Visceral Surgery
- Clinic for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
- Clinic for Trauma Surgery , Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
- Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics
- Clinic for Anaesthesiology , Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy
- Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
Centers
- Aachen Center for Foot Surgery
- Breast Center Aachen Kreis-Heinsberg
Attending clinics
- Ophthalmology
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery ; Plastic and aesthetic operations
- Ear, nose and throat medicine
- Plastic surgery and reconstructive microsurgery
history
The Marienhospital was founded in 1850 at the instigation of the pastors of the two Catholic Burtscheid churches St. Johann and St. Michael as well as six committed citizens and opened on April 1, 1853 as a home for old and sick people of the poorer classes in a wing of the former imperial abbey of Burtscheid . The foundation was triggered by a cholera epidemic that ruled Burtscheid in 1849.
The Marienhospital was one of the first Catholic hospitals in the Rhineland and initially had 10 beds. The hospital is still managed today by a board of trustees in which the two pastors from St. Michael and St. Johann in Burtscheid take turns chairing.
On January 27, 1853, the Sisters of the Poor were called by St. Francis as nurses . Already during the cholera epidemic of 1849, the two Burtscheider pastors Wilhelm Sartorius and Peter Keller asked the superior of the poor sisters of St. Francis, Mother Franziska Schervier , to commission some sisters to be in a room in the lower gate of the former Burtscheid city fortifications five beds to take care of the cholera sufferers. This small hospital in the now no longer existing Untertor was the forerunner of the present Marien Hospital.
As a legal structure, the hospital owners chose the legal form of the foundation , the statutes of which were signed on September 11, 1850 by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. This legal form has not changed until today.
The hospital has grown considerably over the course of time thanks to extensions. The eye clinic was built in 1889 based on designs by Eduard Linse . The number of beds rose steadily from the initial 10 and increased to 60 by 1870, to 110 by 1900 and in 2000 was 342 beds. The original use of the hospital also changed from a facility for the care of the elderly and sick to an acute hospital. This process began in 1883 with the establishment of an eye clinic and continued in 1908 with the addition of a surgical department.
During the time of National Socialism , the Marienhospital owed it to the chief surgeon Hermann Gatersleben that the eugenic guidelines of the political leadership were not implemented. Gatersleben had the courage to contradict the provisions of the 1934 law for the prevention of hereditary offspring , and rejected any kind of forced sterilization and other measures. This led to a temporary ban on the health insurances from having patients transferred to the Marienhospital. Above all, his influence as councilor for the Center Party prevented the hospital from losing its independence and Gatersleben from being removed from service.
In 1957 a gynecological and obstetric department was set up, whereby the Marianneninstitut , an old and too small birth center for poor women who have recently given birth in the city center, was closed. Further construction projects have been carried out at Marienhospital since 1999, most recently in 2015 the construction and establishment of a new, contemporary intensive care unit.
After more than 160 years of service to sick people, the Order of the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis had to stop its work for reasons of young people. It was adopted by the Indian order Sisters of the little Flower of Bethany .
Web links
- Anniversary press release of the Marienhospital on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of April 17th, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Dauber : Aachen villa architecture. The villa as a building task in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Bongers, Recklinghausen, 1985, p. 69.
- ↑ 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. 43–46 and others, ISBN 978-3-86219-338-7 pdf
- ↑ Nina Krüsmann: Marienhospital Aachen: State-of-the-art technology in beautiful new rooms , in: Aachener Zeitung of January 7, 2015
