Prosper Hospital Recklinghausen

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Prosper Hospital Recklinghausen
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Sponsorship KVV R-Klinik Verbund Vest Recklinghausen gGmbH
place Recklinghausen
state North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 36 '22 "  N , 7 ° 11' 31"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '22 "  N , 7 ° 11' 31"  E
Chief Executive Mathias Buckmann
beds 530
Employee ~ 1,200
areas of expertise 12
founding 1848
Website https://www.prosper-hospital.de/
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The Prosper Hospital Recklinghausen is the largest and oldest hospital in the Vest Recklinghausen district . In addition to basic medical care, as a health center it offers extensive preventive and treatment options.

It is an academic teaching hospital of the Ruhr University Bochum .

history

Founding with obstacles

Until the middle of the 19th century there was no hospital in Vest - apart from two leprosy asylums in Dorsten and Segensberg in Hochlar . People looked after their relatives at home, which was not always easy in the times of the beginning of industrialization. Knowing about the worries and needs of his community, chaplain Theodor Kemna decided to found a hospital. For this, however, the financing had to be in place, a suitable building, nursing staff and a minimum standard of medical care had to be found.

So they turned to the wealthy House of Arenberg to promote the construction of a hospital. The demands in the 1st petition strained Duke Prosper Ludwig's social streak a little too much. Only at the 2nd attempt with petitions from the citizens, which Dr. Franz Schneider and Adolf Wicking were handed over to him, he gave the green light for the project thanks to the mediation of Hofkammerrat Landschütz. Until the hospital was in place, a temporary arrangement was made in the vacant house of the carpenter Heger. Two sisters from the Order of Clement took on charitable and nursing tasks there as early as 1848.

A plot of land near the stone gate was purchased and the farmers from Stirnberg and Oer were asked to bring quarry stones as building material. But it soon became apparent that the stones from the surrounding villages were not enough. The city authorities released part of the city wall and marked the section with a chalk line, but these were not enough either. Chaplain Theodor Kemna used the hand of God and wiped the chalk away so that the work could continue.

The Old Prosper Hospital on Kemnastraße

At the beginning of October 1851 the house was ready for occupancy. In honor of the duke it was named "Prosper Hospital". The two nuns Clementina and Perpetua now took over their duties there and were supported by doctors who were resident in the city. Even after the construction, the hospital was always dependent on sponsors. Often the financial donations from the House of Arenberg were not enough. Kemna called for donations and, if necessary, stepped in with her own resources.

With the start of mining, the Prosper Hospital became too small. Its capacity was tailored to the people of the farm town and not to a strong increase in population. Since 1889 it had to be expanded again and again.

Prosper Hospital on Hohenzollernstrasse

In 1927 the construction of the new Prosper Hospital on Hohenzollernstrasse began. Duke Engelbert gave the land for this to Maria von Arenberg , the grandson of the hospital founder. The construction costs were to be financed by a bond of 600,000 Dutch guilders, but the transaction never took place. Furthermore, the global economic crisis , National Socialism and the Second World War delayed the new building. The house was only ready for occupancy in 1944; it turned out to be significantly smaller than planned.

Until 1980 the wards of the clinic were divided between two buildings: the "old" and the "new Prosper".

Prosper Hospital on Mühlenstrasse - and today

In the summer of 1969 another new building was decided because the other two houses no longer met the technical and economic requirements. The foundation stone was laid in 1973 and the new building complex stood by 1979. The move took place in 1980.

Over the next few years, the clinic expanded its range of health services. In addition to technical innovations, such as a computer-controlled operating system (Da Vinci), the pre- and post-care area was expanded. Lectures and advisory events complete the offer.

In the spring of 2003, the Prosper Hospital was included by the WHO in the German network of health promoting hospitals .

The previous buildings have since been demolished. Kemnastraße is the only reminder of the first Prosper Hospital. The bronze figure of Jesus remained from the second on Hohenzollernstrasse, which is now in the hospital park. A bust of Theodor Kemna reminds of the shrewd chaplain and hospital co-founder.

Medical supplies

The hospital has the following clinics and medical centers:

  • Medical Clinic I ::: (Day clinic, focus on gastroenterology, hematology, internal oncology, infectious diseases)
  • Medical Clinic II :: (Department of Internal Medicine, focus on cardiology, pulmonology and angiology)
  • Medical Clinic III: (Department of Internal Medicine, focus on nephrology , hypertensiology and diabetology)
  • surgery
  • Women's Clinic
  • geriatrics
  • ENT
  • Coloproctology
  • urology
  • Accident, hand and orthopedic surgery
  • anesthesia
  • radiology
  • Intestinal center
  • regional trauma center
  • Geriatric Trauma Center
  • Breast center
  • Pharmacy with medicine depot for a disaster.

As part of the Klinik Verbund Vest Recklinghausen gGmbH , the Prosper Hospital works closely with the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Herten .

See also

literature

  • Vestischer Kalender - 68 (1997), pp. 47-52; Prof. Dr. Hans Röttger: Chaplain Theodor Kemna - pioneer and co-founder of the hospital system between Emscher and Lippe on the 100th anniversary of his death on January 21, 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chaplain Theodor Kemna. Retrieved April 13, 2017 .