Upper Engadin Hospital

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Front of the main building facing the street

The Spital Oberengadin ( Rhaeto-Romanic in the idiom Puter Rhaeto-Romanic Ospidel Engiadin'Ota ? / I ) in Samedan in the Upper Engadin is a regional hospital publicly owned by the Upper Engadine District . It is on Via Nouva at the northeast exit of the village towards Bever . Audio file / audio sample

The hospital is the second largest hospital in the canton after the Graubünden Cantonal Hospital and the largest employer in the Upper Engadin in the year-round balance sheet. It has 220 full-time positions and 300 employees.

Departments

The hospital, designed as a hospital for extended basic care , with service contracts also for the Lower Engadine , Val Müstair , Puschlav and Bergell, includes the following institutes and clinics:

  • medicine
  • surgery
  • gynecology
  • radiology
  • anesthesia

The hospital also maintains the emergency and intensive care departments .

history

The predecessors of the Upper Engadine Hospital were the infirmaries from the medieval and early modern times of the plague . These existed in Samedan (below today's Roman Catholic Church), in Pontresina , Zuoz and St. Moritz .

The modern Upper Engadin Hospital has existed since 1895, at its current location since 1914. A hospital association founded in 1881 had carried out the preparatory work and initiated the district vote in 1892, which was successful with 381 to 21 votes.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official characteristics of the Grisons hospitals. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Graubünden Health Office. December 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 27, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gr.ch  
  2. ↑ Facts & Figures. In: Upper Engadin Hospital. Retrieved September 27, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Upper Engadin Hospital. In: Municipality of Samedan. Retrieved September 27, 2010 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '21.5 "  N , 9 ° 52' 40.5"  E ; CH1903:  787,087  /  157131