St. Josef Hospital (Gelsenkirchen-Horst)

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The St. Josef Hospital is a standard care hospital in Gelsenkirchen-Horst . It has 219 beds. The carrier is the Katholische Kliniken Emscher-Lippe company .

The hospital

A focus of the St. Josef Hospital has been geriatric medicine since 2018. The corresponding capacities are to be expanded comprehensively by 2025. The hospital has a total of seven specialist departments with currently 219 beds; in addition to geriatrics , there are:

  • Internal Medicine
  • General surgery
  • Visceral surgery
  • anesthesia
  • Operative intensive care medicine
  • Special pain therapy

The clinic's sleep laboratory was extensively expanded in 2015. It has eight air-conditioned, soundproof single rooms. A radiological group practice in the center of Gelsenkirchen, about seven kilometers away, is attached to the clinic.

history

The house was opened in 1889 with 35 beds. Three sisters from the cooperative of the Franciscan Sisters of St. Mauritz near Münster provided care . The surgeon Rudolf Bertram worked in the hospital, who in 1944, together with the hospital caretaker Ruth Theobald and the religious sister Epimacha, rescued 17 Jewish forced laborers from being transported to Sömmerda to the Buchenwald subcamp there and hid them until the end of the war.

In 2012 the kitchen of the nearby St. Barbara Hospital in Gladbeck closed and the kitchen of the St. Josef Hospital took over the catering of the house. In December 2016, it was announced that the hospital would close in 2018. It was planned that 100 beds and a third of the staff of the St. Josef Hospital would move to the St. Barbara Hospital in Gladbeck. The announcement provoked protests and citizens turned against the closure of the St. Josef Hospital in the course of several demonstrations. In particular, the population structure of the region, which is characterized by an aging population, gave rise to fears that the residents could no longer be supplied as needed and close to home.

The closure was prevented by the takeover of the hospital and the operating company KKEL by St. Augustinus Gelsenkirchen GmbH . As a result, a further expansion of the house was announced - for example a new ward block. In addition, the necessary specialist care should be expanded, this particularly affected the departments of geriatrics, psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry. In spring 2020 it became known that the kitchen and laboratory of the St. Josef Hospital would be closed, which cost 100 jobs. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany , the St. Augustinus supporting company established the St. Josef Hospital as a specialist clinic for patients with a COVID-19 diagnosis in spring 2020 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.waz.de/staedte/gelsenkirchen/dem-st-josef-hopsital-in-horst-droht-2018-die-schlung-id208964947.html
  2. ↑ "Geriatrics of the St. Josef Hospital in Horst relies on the expansion of geriatrics" , on WAZ.de from September 2, 2018, accessed on May 27, 2020
  3. ↑ a b On the closure of the St. Josef Hospital in Gelsenkirchen in Stadt Spiegel (online) from January 8, 2017, accessed on May 27, 2020
  4. ↑ http://heinzkolb.npage.de/geschichten-aus-der-heimat-das-st-josephs-hospital-in-gelsenkirchen-horst.html
  5. ↑ "St. Josefs-Hospital in Gelsenkirchen closes - that happens to the employees" in Der Westen (online) of December 22, 2016, accessed on May 27, 2020
  6. ↑ "St. Josef Hospital Gelsenkirchen. Building instead of dismantling" on Rote Fahne News from April 7, 2020, accessed on May 27, 2020
  7. ^ "Citizens' information event . The new St. Josefs Hospital is coming" in Stadt Spiegel (online) from October 4, 2018, accessed on May 27, 2020
  8. ↑ "Gelsenkirchen: St. Josefs Hospital closes kitchen and laboratory" in Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (online), April 2, 2020, accessed on May 27, 2020
  9. ↑ "Gelsenkirchen: Plans for a central Corona Clinic in Horst" , on radioemscherlippe.de from March 19, 2020, accessed on May 28, 2020

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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '28.7 "  N , 7 ° 1' 39.9"  E