St. Lukas Clinic Solingen-Ohligs
| St. Lukas Clinic Solingen | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| Seat | Solingen |
| management | Kai Siekkötter, managing director |
| Number of employees | approx. 550 (2020) |
| Branch | hospital |
| Website | www.kplusgruppe.de |
The St. Lukas Clinic is a hospital in Solingen and is sponsored by the Kplus Group . The clinic has around 550 employees. Around 12,000 inpatients and 17,000 outpatients are treated here every year.
history
The roots of the St. Lukas Clinic are on Merscheider Strasse. There, opposite the former town hall, was Carl Fervers' private clinic, which quickly gained in importance. After the Second World War, the hospital was given an operating theater, and later a chapel, which was dedicated to Saint Luke, the patron saint of doctors.
In the meantime, not only private patients received medical care, but also health insurance patients and people who were dependent on support. Fervers was appointed adjunct professor in Bonn in 1950 and appointed head of the department for clinical psychology.
On the advice and with the support of Archbishop Joseph Cardinal Frings of Cologne, the parishes of Ohligs, Merscheid and Wald took the decision to continue the work founded by Fervers. On June 29, 1952, the “St. Lukas Klinik ”, named after the patron saint of the chapel. The rooms on Merscheider Strasse had long since become too small, so that in 1961 the foundation stone was laid for a modern clinic building on Schwanenstrasse.
It was opened with 382 beds on July 1, 1963. In 1983, St. Lukas Klinik GmbH was founded, which is still the hospital's owner today. In 1997, the St. Lukas Clinic, along with the St. Lukas Nursing Home and the St. Josef Hospital in Hilden, was one of the founders of the Kplus association - Catholic clinics and senior facilities, from which today's Kplus group with its 30 facilities is made up has developed.
In 1985 the east extension was built, ten years later the geriatric day clinic moved into another extension. In 2002 the operating wing with four operating rooms was opened, which was built above the geriatric day clinic. The new, significantly enlarged functional diagnostics also found its new place in the new building.
In order to be able to train the next generation of nursing staff in the future, the nursing school of the St. Lukas Clinic merged with the schools from Langenfeld and Haan to form the Haan Catholic Education Center. The theoretical knowledge of the 90 trainees at the St. Lukas Clinic will now be imparted to them in Haan, the practical training will continue to take place in Ohligs.
Departments
The house has the following departments:
- Internal medicine - gastroenterology and cardiology
- Internal medicine - oncology and hematology
- Neurology with Stroke Unit
- geriatrics
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery
- Anesthesia, intensive care medicine and pain therapy
There are also certified centers, some of which have catchment areas that extend far beyond the city limits:
- Supraregional stroke center
- Oncology Center
- Intestinal center
- Pancreatic center
- MDS Center of Excellence
- local trauma center
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 16.2 ″ N , 6 ° 59 ′ 3.6 ″ E