Rhein-Maas Clinic
| Rhein-Maas Klinikum GmbH | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | 50% Aachen city region 50% miners' union |
| place | Würselen |
| state | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| executive Director | Patrick Frey |
| Care level | Main focus supply |
| beds | 663 |
| Employee | 1500 (2018) |
| including doctors | 302 (2017) |
| Website | www.rheinmaasklinikum.de |
The Rhein-Maas Clinic was created on January 1, 2001 through the merger of the Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bardenberg and the Marienhöhe district hospital in Würselen and was initially named Medical Center District Aachen gGmbH . This first name was given after the Aachen City Region , which like the Knappschaft holds 50% of the company's shares, became the legal successor to the Aachen district. On July 1, 2017, the Medical Center was renamed Rhein-Maas Klinikum GmbH again due to the expanded range of services . In October 2018, acute medicine in the northern district was centralized at the "Marienhöhe" location (Mauerfeldchen 25).
The Rhein-Maas Klinikum with around 1,600 employees has 645 beds and is certified with the quality standard Cooperation for Transparency and Quality in Health Care (KTQ).
Major changes are planned until around 2021/2022 as part of the realignment of the clinic: In 2018, for example, the departments for pulmonary medicine and urology were relocated from Bardenberg to the Marienhöhe location and a new emergency practice for the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians was established. New operating theaters and a parking garage are to be built by 2021.
In return, a training and further education center for health professions is to be built in Bardenberg. The emergency practice there was closed.
Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bardenberg
history
The beginnings
Bardenberg was the geographical center of the worm area with several coal mines. The risk of accidents for the miners was great; In the period from 1818 to 1879, 566 fatal pit accidents are documented in the worm area. The greatest disaster occurred in 1834 at the neighboring Gouley mine as a result of a water breakthrough in which 63 people were killed. This gave the final impetus for the formation of the Wurmknappschaft in 1840 and the founding of the Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bardenberg on April 1, 1856.
The Wurmknappschaft rented the former Kolberg inn, which was used as a restaurant in the meantime, and set up a hospital with 8 beds in this building. At the end of the first year of operation, the facilities were increased to 18 beds. The patients were initially treated by 1st class surgeon Laurenz Xaver Pesch, supported by a nurse and a housekeeper.
In 1868 the Wurmknappschaft bought the Bauer'sche property opposite the inn, where the hospital moved in, for 5,000 thalers. The rooms were heated, with kerosene lamps and washing facilities. 19 patients - 28 if necessary - found space. In 1878 an operating room and a sickroom for the seriously injured were set up. Bed places for 40 patients, most of whom had to be treated by accident surgery, were now available.
Since 1899, family members have also been included in health care and could be accepted as well as those not insured by miners.
20th century
With increasing medical progress and improved surgical methods, a new hospital building was urgently needed. On October 12, 1901, the foundation stone for the current hospital building was laid. The new hospital was inaugurated on June 1, 1904. The Bauer property was demolished in 1928, last used as a nurses' home and previously as an administration building for the Wurmknappschaft, until it was renamed Aachener Knappschaft on January 1, 1924 and moved to Monheimsallee in Aachen 22-24 moved.
The hospital was equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, had 72 beds, a large operating theater, x-ray machines, massage and bathing areas, elevators, numerous telephone connections, a laboratory, heating systems, kitchen, laundry and other facilities.
The nursing care as well as the operational organization was carried out by nuns of the Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Family . Their number rose from 14 to 70 sisters between 1904 and 1938.
The next expansion was carried out in 1911; 182 patients have now been admitted to the hospital. Structural changes began in 1928. The number of beds rose to 370. In 1931, a women's ward and two large sickrooms for children were opened.
The hospital was largely self-sufficient. Since 1895 there was a nursery with its own vegetable gardens, orchards and greenhouses. Approx. 100 pigs, up to 500 laying hens and approx. 1000 pullets were present until the 1970s.
War and post-war period and later expansions
Although the hospital was relatively spared from war damage, it was still operated under the most difficult conditions. Operations were carried out in the basement. This is also where the births took place - in the event of a power failure in the light of a carbide lamp. On October 8, 1944, the Americans took over the hospital and many American wounded received first aid. Furthermore, civilians could be treated in the basement. A large part of the population sought protection from air raids there. In the winter of 1944/1945, the Knappschaftskrankenhaus was the only hospital in the Aachen area that was still available for medical care for the civilian population.
After the war and after the repair work, the house experienced a new heyday. An administration building, the medical examination center of the Aachener Knappschaft and a new staff house were built. The number of beds rose to 623 in 1955. From 1950 onwards, in addition to the Franciscan Sisters, members of the Association of Independent Sisters also worked as carers. The staff shortage in the 1970s was addressed by hiring nurses and carers from the Philippines.
Structural changes began in the mid-1950s: the newborn department, the surgical outpatient department, the X-ray department. In 1959 the 30-meter-high ambulance building, which is now listed, was completed. The operational facilities developed from three operating theaters in 1955 to 12 theaters in 1980.
In 1977 the Knappschaftskrankenhaus became an academic teaching hospital of RWTH Aachen University .
An internal and a gynecological department were set up as early as the 1920s. Neurology, orthopedics (until 1981), urology, radiology and anesthesia followed from 1950. The diagnostic spectrum and the operative possibilities corresponded to the current state of medicine; Nuclear medicine, sonography, angiography and extensive laboratory diagnostics as well as a hospital pharmacy complete the range of procedures. The early establishment of a stroke unit in the field of neurology was remarkable in the 1990s .
At the time of the merger in 2001 with the Marienhöhe District Hospital to form the Medical Center District Aachen gGmbH, the Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bardenberg offered 402 beds, eight specialist departments and a pathology department.
In 2003 the medical emergency practice opened its seat in the Bardenberg branch. At the beginning of 2007, a large area of the ambulance building was refurbished in order to offer the statutory health insurance emergency practice more space and higher structural quality. With three modern treatment rooms, there is sufficient space to cover the entire medical emergency service for the northern district of Aachen .
New treatment methods have been used successfully, including a. in the urology department since July 2006 the Greenlight laser procedure and the cross-divisional continence center.
Personnel
The Bardenberg Knappschaftskrankenhaus was always on a high medical level. After the surgeon Pesch, this was ensured by the surgeon Josef Quadflieg, who ran the house from 1904 to 1919. Mathias Schmitz was also a surgeon, also set up the gynecology department and an internal ward, and was the chief hospital doctor from 1919 to 1950. His successor was Alfons Herink, who also worked as a surgeon in neurosurgery, followed in 1974 by Kristian Lüders. From 1976, Wilfried Vogel, who also held the office of Medical Director from 1976 to 2001, became head of surgery. Under his leadership, the surgical spectrum was considerably expanded and extended to the areas of abdominal organs, thorax, vascular and trauma surgery. Between 3,500 and 4,000 surgical interventions were performed annually. Successor as medical director - henceforth responsible for both parts of the company - was Hans Walter Staudte until the end of 2005. Ingo Krüger then became medical director, followed by the chief physician of the neurological clinic, Christoph Kosinski.
The administration was initially taken care of on the side by a mining officer . From 1912 to 1934, Chief Inspector Peter Dreßen was appointed by the Wurmknappschaft as the first administrative manager. His successor was Hubert Wenn, a member of the Board of Directors, who held this office from 1934 to 1968. He was followed by Franz Spiertz from 1968 to 1991. The last administrative director of the Knappschaftskrankenhaus was from 1991 to 2001 Volker Brucksch.
fusion
The merger was explained in the anniversary chronicle for the 150th anniversary of the Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bardenberg in April 2006 as follows:
" " Changes in demographics, medical advances and limited resources are also changing the current hospital landscape. Since January 1, 2001, through the merger with the Marienhöhe district hospital, nominal integration into the health facilities of the Aachen district has been achieved. In order to illustrate this close connection to the Aachen district, a change of name was inevitable. As the 'Medical Center District Aachen gGmbH', hospital of the Knappschaft and the district of Aachen, with the operating parts Bardenberg and Marienhöhe, the facility is today the largest clinic in the district and at the same time one of the most important employers ... The aim was to jointly use economic potential and synergy effects to continuously increase quality and thus initiate an active process of securing the location. This is the only way to continue offering high performance for the benefit of the patient ... " "
Centralization of acute medicine
In autumn 2018, the last remaining clinics moved to Mauerfeldchen 25. Acute medicine was thus centralized in the northern district of the Aachen city region.
Marienhöhe district hospital
Departments
- Acute geriatrics and geriatric rehabilitation
- General, visceral and minimally invasive surgery
- Anesthesia, intensive care and emergency medicine
- Vascular surgery
- Internal medicine and gastroenterology
- Internal rheumatology
- Cardiology, Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine
- Pulmonology and respiratory medicine
- neurology
- Plastic surgery, hand and burn surgery
- Radiology, Neuroradiology and Nuclear Medicine
- Pain therapy and palliative medicine
- Thoracic surgery
- Trauma surgery, general orthopedics and endoprosthetics
- Urology and Pediatric Urology
- Spinal surgery, neurosurgery and special orthopedics
- Central emergency room
history
Initial considerations for the establishment of a district hospital were considered by the district council at the end of the 19th century. Since the financing options were not available, the implementation was repeatedly postponed. The last planning phase dates back to the 1950s and finally led to the Marienhöhe district hospital, built by the Aachen construction company Grünzig GmbH , being put into operation on May 1, 1967 . Now the need for hospital beds in the northern district could be met. The new hospital had 420 beds. Administration, management and maintenance was the responsibility of the secular institute of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary. A board of trustees consisting of members of the secular institute of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary and representatives of the Aachen district was responsible for the management of the house.
today
The medical director is Georg Mühlenbruch, chief physician at the Clinic for Radiology, Neuroradiology and Nuclear Medicine.
The clear, straightforward functionality of the seven-storey ward block and the adjoining operating theater, treatment and care areas is still striking today.
In the Rhein-Maas Klinikum there is a helicopter landing pad on the 32 m high new building, which was inaugurated in 2015. This is of particular relevance as the rescue helicopter Christoph Europa 1 flies to the Rhein-Maas Klinikum as the on-site hospital.
The range of services
Since the start of operations, the Marienhöhe District Hospital has acquired an important role that extends beyond the region, especially through the department of orthopedics, rheumatoid orthopedics and the first independent anesthesia department in the Aachen area. As early as 1974, the Aachen district stationed one of the first rescue helicopters in Germany at the hospital.
In 1978 the district hospital became an academic teaching hospital of RWTH Aachen University.
In the 1980s, trauma surgery was expanded very successfully. Geriatrics followed in the 1990s. The geriatric day clinic was set up in a spacious extension, in a first construction phase in 2000, and in its final form since March 2006. In 2012, the foundation stone for the extension was laid. This was partially available from October 2014.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Medical center in Würselen with a new name , WDR-Nachrichten of June 30, 2017.
- ↑ Medical Center: Supervisory Board wants to continue investing , in: Aachener Zeitung from December 20, 2016.
