Interlaken Hospital
The Spital Interlaken is a hospital in Interlaken in Switzerland . Since 1999 it has belonged to the Spitäler Frutigen Meiringen Interlaken AG.
history
After the secularization of the Augustinian monastery, today's Interlaken Castle , in 1532 a "Spittel" was set up in the vacated rooms to accommodate the needy and vagabonds. In 1823, a sick room with three beds was set up for accidental game haymakers and lumberjacks; later it was expanded to ten beds in the east wing of the palace and in the adjacent parts of the building. Two beds were reserved for the Oberhasli district . Little by little, the "Spittel" and an emergency room became a hospital. As the only one in the canton of Bern, it was operated entirely for the account of the Bernese state until the end of 1881.
When it was ceded to the municipalities of the district, it became a «district hospital». This was the cornerstone for the establishment of the hospital association, which all municipalities in the district later joined. In principle, this regulation remained valid for the next 122 years.
Various epidemics such as the plague of 1669, typhus , smallpox and cholera in 1855 and the economic boom due to the rise of tourism led to the planning for a new district hospital being started in 1900. It should be in an area that is not too densely populated so that it can be isolated in the event of an epidemic. The choice fell on the Mattacker on Weissenaustrasse in Unterseen . The Extraordinary General Meeting on June 25, 1900 decided on the Mattacker in Unterseen as the most suitable building site, although the Interlaken town council would have liked to see the new building on its own ground. For each expansion of the hospital facility, land could be purchased in the immediate vicinity.
The hospital assistant school was put into operation in 1959. The school's first general nursing course began on May 1, 1966. In 1970 the hospital was expanded to include a hemodialysis unit . Two years later, construction began on a new wing south of the existing main building, which was opened on December 15, 1975. In 2001 the magnetic resonance tomography was put into operation. One year later, the "Spital Interlaken - Interlaken Hospital Foundation" was established.
Medical importance
These include the operative clinics for outpatient clinics, AIDS counseling, anesthesia, surgical clinics, diabetes counseling, diabetology, dialysis, endocrinology, occupational therapy, nutritional counseling, family counseling, gastroenterology, gynecological / obstetrics, interdisciplinary. Intensive care unit, cardiology, laboratory, speech therapy / SRK, medical clinic, medical training therapy, neurology, oncology, physiotherapy, pulmonology, radiology, ambulance service, rheumatology, sleep consultation and pain medicine.
literature
- Rudolf Gallati: The conversion of the Interlaken monastery into a hospital . Schlaefli, Interlaken 1990.
- Ernst Schläppi: From the bathing room to the hospital center: the Interlaken hospital, a contribution to its history; for the 100th anniversary of the Interlaken Hospital in Unterseen . Schlaefli + Maurer, Interlaken 2004, ISBN 3-85884-060-2 .
- Ruedi Spiess: Interlaken Hospital. In: Das Hardermannli: Supplement to the Oberländischer Volksblatt Interlaken. Vol. 96, No. 19, 1997, pp. 1-4.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 40 '51.1 " N , 7 ° 50' 34.9" E ; CH1903: 630940 / 170040