Raphaelsklinik Münster
The Raphaelsklinik is a hospital in the Westphalian city of Münster and an academic teaching hospital of the Westphalian Wilhelms University . It has 316 beds and 705 employees. The clinic is connected to two outpatient centers in directly adjacent buildings. Around 11,000 inpatients and 13,000 outpatients are treated annually. The facility is run by the Catholic Alexianer GmbH and the Order of the Clement Sisters .
history
The Raphaelsklinik was opened on July 10, 1908 under the sponsorship of the Clement Sisters in the immediate vicinity of their mother house, the Clement Monastery. At that time they already had about 100 years of experience in nursing, but were working under outside direction in different institutions. With the establishment of the clinic, they were able to apply their knowledge in their own hospital for the first time.
Next to the Raphaelsklinik, the Hedwigsklinik opened in the direct vicinity on September 18, 1908, so that there were two clinics of equal quality on one street. They were connected by a hallway on the respective second floor. The number of beds in the two clinics fluctuated between 80 and 120 beds at that time. Six specialists in the fields of surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, ophthalmology, internal medicine and neurology were available to care for the patients. There was also a specialist in nose, ear and larynx diseases. The doctors, including Conrad Ramstedt , had a total of six operating rooms available. Both clinics were administered by a board of trustees of the Clement Sisters.
From 1928 to 1930 the Raphaelsklinik was expanded. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on December 3, 1928, and the foundation stone was laid on March 26, 1929. This new building also includes Münster's first high-rise on Windthorststrasse, which was then still called Hagedornstrasse. It was consecrated by the Münster bishop Johannes Poggenburg on December 13, 1930, when it was already occupied with patients. A special feature of this skyscraper was the 9 m high statue of the Madonna, which was attached to the southwest facade as a memorial in honor of the patroness of the order. It was destroyed in air raids on Münster during World War II. The high-rise itself is a listed building. After this expansion, the two clinics had 72 rooms with a total of 164 beds. The number of doctors was increased to 10.
Right at the beginning of the Second World War, a reserve hospital with a total of 50 beds was set up in the Hedwig Clinic, which was increased to 130 beds in 1940. In July 1941 the first war damage occurred due to Allied air raids. The increasing air raids then made it necessary to set up an escape point, which was then opened on August 22, 1943 in the "Monastery of the Holy Cross" in Freckenhorst . While the patients were quartered in Freckenhorst, operations within the clinic took place twice a week. The Clement sisters also left Münster to protect themselves from the attacks. They were housed in Haus Marienthal until 1944. After the destruction of their monastery, they moved to Arnsberg .
After the end of the war, almost all the buildings in the two clinics were badly damaged. Only the high-rise that was built when the clinic was expanded in 1930 was still reasonably habitable. It was temporarily converted into the mother house of the sisters, which the first 13 sisters moved into on April 15, 1945. By the time the reconstruction work was completed in 1950, another alternative point had to be set up in Hiltrup . With the reconstruction of the two clinics, the separation was ended and the Hedwig Clinic took over the name Raphaelsklinik. Since the nearby Clemenshospital was also destroyed by the war, the Raphaelsklinik was temporarily the only clinic in the city center of Münster. The number of beds increased significantly and in 1950 it already had 304 beds. The clinic was expanded accordingly in 1954.
The last major expansion took place in the 1990s with the construction of a new ward block inside the clinic and in 1999 with the addition of an outpatient center. Another, second ambulance center followed in 2004. A reconstruction with simultaneous relocation of the main entrance also took place at the beginning of the 21st century and was completed in July 2002. The Raphaelsklinik has also been an academic teaching hospital since 1998.
Departments
The Raphaelsklinik is divided into a total of 11 medical areas:
- Surgical and internal ambulance
- Surgery I - general and visceral surgery
- Surgery II - Coloproctology
- Accident and Orthopedic Surgery
- Anesthesia and operative intensive care medicine
- Internal medicine I
- Internal Medicine II - Gastroenterology
- Internal Medicine III - Hematology and Oncology
- Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
- urology
- ENT
- Central operating room
Other facilities
In addition to the medical areas, there are also additional facilities at the Raphaelsklinik. In addition to the two medical centers, these are nursing, a facility for physical therapy, a laboratory, a nursing school, a department for short-term care and an outpatient nursing service. A clinical social service as well as a clinical pastoral care are available for the social aspects. The church of the motherhouse of the Clement Sisters also belongs to the clinic.
Exhibitions
The regular exhibitions are a special feature of the hospital. With the renovation of the main entrance, a gallery was created in the foyer, which has since shown exhibitions by various artists.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 32.5 ″ N , 7 ° 37 ′ 49 ″ E