SRH Kurpfalzkrankenhaus Heidelberg
| SRH Kurpfalzkrankenhaus Heidelberg | |
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| Sponsorship | SRH Kliniken GmbH |
| place | Heidelberg |
| state | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 24 '49 " N , 8 ° 39' 13" E |
| beds | 85 (since July 2014) |
| Employee | 209 |
| areas of expertise | Internal medicine, neurology |
| founding | 1972 |
| Website | www.kurpfalzkrankenhaus.de |
The SRH Kurpfalz Hospital Heidelberg is a specialized hospital for internal medicine and neurology in the district Wieblingen in Heidelberg , hospitalization in which about 3,000 patients a year. The facility is the academic teaching hospital of Heidelberg University Hospital and employs around 200 people.
Thanks to an interdisciplinary intensive care unit and a dialysis department, critically ill patients, for example , can be provided with ventilation at any time . The clinic's hemophilia center is one of the largest in Germany for the treatment of hemophilia . In addition, the SRH Kurpfalzkrankenhaus Heidelberg has a special unit for neurological early rehabilitation of phase B: There, patients are treated after a stroke and other damage to the nervous system .
The SRH Kurpfalzkrankenhaus Heidelberg is part of the SRH Kliniken GmbH association, the corporate association is owned by SRH Holding .
history
In October 1972 the SRH Kurpfalzkrankenhaus Heidelberg was first opened under the name Rehabilitation Clinic Heidelberg. The first medical director was Klaus Schimpf. Initially, patients with paraplegia and general internal disorders were treated and subjected to intensive rehabilitation. In addition, a center was established for the diagnosis and therapy of patients with bleeding disorders, especially hemophilia . In the mid-1970s, a dialysis department was set up initially for the treatment of retraining from the vocational support organization. The clinic quickly developed into an integral part of the Heidelberg hospitals for general internal patient care.
From 1988 onwards, under his successor Rainer Zimmermann, patients with cardiovascular diseases, diseases of the gastrointestinal system, dialysis patients and patients after kidney transplants were increasingly treated. Although the hospital was named after the name of the Rehabilitation Foundation and later the SRH Group, it was active as an acute hospital from the outset with the acute treatment of internal medicine patients and patients with cerebral blood flow disorders and was included in the Baden-Württemberg hospital plan. As a result, the clinic was renamed the SRH Kurpfalzkrankenhaus in 1996 as part of a structural reform of the SRH Group. At the same time, the renovation of the hospital began, first the auxiliary building and then the main building was increased by one floor each.
Since the early 1980s, the care of patients in the early phase after a stroke has developed as a special focus of the hospital. In 1999, an independent neurology department with 40 beds was set up and Ralph Winter was appointed chief physician. In this way, not only has the treatment of stroke patients been further developed on an interdisciplinary basis, but also a focus on inpatient examination and treatment of patients with acute neurological diseases has been established.
Since 2005 there has been close cooperation with the Department of Cardiology, Pneumology and Angiology of the Medical Clinic of the University Hospital Heidelberg, whose chief physician Hugo A. Katus thus also became chief physician of the cardiology department at the Kurpfalzkrankenhaus. Since then, Philipp Ehlermann has joined the medical team of the Kurpfalzkrankenhaus as a permanent representative from the university hospital, who further shaped and expanded the cardiological expertise.
After PZimmermann left the house as chief physician in 2010, Ehlermann became chief physician of the internal medicine department and medical director of the entire hotel in 2011. The following years were the focus of further development, in particular the planning of an intensive care unit, which was opened in November 2014 under the medical direction of senior physician Manfred Nelles as an interdisciplinary internal-neurological intensive care unit.
Winter left the Kurpfalzkrankenhaus in September 2014, and his successor in October 2014 was Andreas Becker, previously senior physician in the neurological department of the University Hospital Marburg, as the new chief physician of the neurological department at the Kurpfalzkrankenhaus. With the contribution of his many years of intensive medical experience, the intensive care unit was further expanded, so that the ventilation capacity in particular was further expanded and, in addition to the option of dialysis treatment, the expertise for chronic veno-venous hemodiafiltration was added to the therapeutic spectrum of the intensive care unit.