St. Annastift

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St. Marien and St. Annastift Hospital
Sponsorship St. Dominikus Hospital and Youth Welfare GmbH
place Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Coordinates 49 ° 27 '49 "  N , 8 ° 25' 51"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '49 "  N , 8 ° 25' 51"  E
executive Director Marcus Wiechmann
Care level Maximum care
beds 482 (2010)
Employee 1200 (2009)
including doctors 169
Annual budget 72 million € (2012)
founding 1912 (founded by Karolina Burger)
Website st-marienkrankenhaus.de
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Marien Hospital

The St. Annastift is part of the St. Marien and St. Annastift Hospital in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

General

Over 4,000 children and adolescents are treated as inpatients in the St. Annastiftskrankenhaus each year and over 17,000 outpatient examinations are carried out. The second largest children's clinic in Rhineland-Palatinate has 84 fully inpatient beds. In addition, there are 20 places at the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, which will open 20 inpatient beds on two wards in the 2012 anniversary year. The St. Annastift children's home is still part of the complex, where children, mothers and families are looked after. The hospital has a tradition of over 100 years and was founded in 1912 by the teacher Karolina Burger as a commitment to the poorest in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Her Catholic welfare home, which later became the St. Annastift, quickly becomes a refuge for illegitimate mothers, orphaned infants and small children. Today the St. Annastift Children's Home and the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Medicine and the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the St. Marien and St. Annastift Hospital are in this tradition.

history

Beginnings

In 1912 the teacher Karolina Burger began her social commitment to the poorest in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. To help more people seeking help, she rented a large house on Königsstrasse (later Karolina-Burger-Strasse) for a welfare home and founded the welfare association with like-minded women, which later became the Catholic welfare association for girls, women and children. The aim was to offer the endangered and neglected girls and women - especially during pregnancy - help, housing, care and other attention.

In 1916, Burger was supported by four sisters from the Institute of the Poor School Sisters in Speyer , and in 1918 another six sisters were added. The essentials were often missing. Out of this need, the sisters opened a public laundry. In 1927 the house at Königstrasse 51 was bought and a small hospital was opened in the welfare home. In 1928 this had three beds for births, 12 cots and 20 for internal, surgical and orthopedic patients. This was followed by the founding of the first nursing school in the Palatinate.

War and Post War

During the 23rd air raid on Ludwigshafen in May 1944, 80 percent of the St. Annastift was destroyed and there were also deaths. In 1945 the restoration of the welfare home, the children's department and the operating rooms took place at great expense. In October 1953 the new children's hospital with 100 beds was opened on Hauptstrasse (Mundenheimer Strasse) as the first children's clinic in the Palatinate.

In October 1967, another building for the children's clinic, maternity ward and children's and reform home was put into operation. In 1975 the new staff residence with the children's nursing school opened. In April 1976, the first psychosomatic ward for children started operating in St. Annastift.

Change of carrier and merger

In 1984 the Catholic Welfare Association dissolved and the St. Dominic Institute took over the sponsorship. In 1985 the St. Marien Hospital and the St. Annastift Children's Clinic merged to form the St. Marien and St. Annastift Hospital. The children's home continued to run independently.

Complete renovation and extensions

The complete renovation of the children's clinic began in autumn 1993, in the following year an extension with a new entrance area was opened, and at the end of 1996 the clinic was supplemented by the western extension with functional rooms and laboratory wing. In October 1999 a branch of the premature and newborn department of the St. Annastift was opened in the St. Marien Hospital with six beds. In September 2001 the children's nursing school merged with the nursing school at St. Marienkrankenhaus.

In September 2002, the completion of the overall renovation of the children's clinic after nine years of construction was celebrated. The state and sponsors invested over 12.2 million euros in the renovation. In October 2002 the Department of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology (Children's Cancer Department) opened. In November 2002, the completion of the three-year general renovation of the children's home (cost 2.5 million euros), which had become necessary due to fire protection requirements, was celebrated with an open house.

Sisters withdraw

In 2003, St. Dominikus Krankenhaus und Jugendhilfe gGmbH , based in Ludwigshafen, took over the sponsorship of the children's home and the hospital in order to secure them for the future. In January 2005, the new chief physician in general paediatrics and neonatology, Ulrich Merz, began his work. In July the new department for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy was opened with head physician Jochen Gehrmann. It started with an institute outpatient clinic in completely renovated rooms in the staff dormitory. In October this was supplemented by a day clinic with 20 treatment places.

As part of the establishment of the perinatal center at St. Marienkrankenhaus, the new and premature infants intensive care unit, which is part of the St. Annastift, was expanded to 14 beds. On March 6, 2006, the Lukas psychosomatic ward, which had been closed for several months due to the renovation, resumed its work in new rooms. Due to the change in the legal framework, children and young people with cancer have been receiving inpatient care since mid-2007 in cooperation with the Mannheim University Hospital .

Web links

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  1. ↑ Website of the clinic , December 12, 2012.
  2. ↑ Annual report 2012.
  3. ↑ The St. Marien- and St. Annastiftskrankenhaus's own website at st-marienkrankenhaus.de