St. Joseph Hospital Berlin-Tempelhof
| St. Joseph Hospital Berlin-Tempelhof | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | Elisabeth Vinzenz Verbund |
| place | Berlin-Tempelhof |
| state | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 28 '41 " N , 13 ° 22' 23" E |
| medical director | Thomas Poralla |
| beds | 495 |
| areas of expertise | 12 |
| founding | 1928 |
| Website | sjk.de |
The St. Joseph Hospital is located in the south of Berlin , in the district of Tempelhof the district Tempelhof-Schöneberg . With around 75,000 patients and 495 beds annually, it is the largest Catholic hospital in Berlin (as of the end of 2018). In addition, with almost 4,200 births in 2017, it is the hospital with the highest birth rates in Germany. St. Joseph Hospital was founded on December 30, 1928. In the 2000s, the hospital also specialized in the treatment of kidney diseases.
history
The sisterhood of St. Elisabeth in Neisse / Silesia was founded for the outpatient care of sick people of all backgrounds and beliefs. The first sisters came to Berlin from 1840–1870, after which up to 50 branches were established in the Berlin province . Due to the doubling of the population of Berlin between 1900 and 1920, there was a great shortage of hospital beds. A big newspaper appeal by the Berlin Provincial Sister M. Ewalda Weinrich led to a donation of one million Reichsmarks , which formed the basis for the purchase of a plot of land in Neu-Tempelhof and the construction of a hospital . The building between Gontermannstrasse and Bäumerplan was built between 1927 and 1928 according to plans by Ludwig Hoffmann and Friedrich Hennings . It is a listed building monument. A flu epidemic in late autumn 1928 meant that St. Joseph Hospital was put into operation on December 30, 1928 earlier than planned. As early as 1930, 60 Elisabeth Sisters and around 130 secular employees were working in the hospital.
The hospital served with the rooms of the nursing school from 1939 to 1945 as a reserve hospital . At times more than 1,000 patients were cared for there. Bomb attacks led to the partial destruction of the hospital in World War II .
Most of the buildings could be made usable again after the end of the war. From 1950 the hospital received its own blood bank , which was complete in 1979. The infant ward was rebuilt and the patient rooms were redistributed. In 1972 the hospital management had a new building built for the nursing school and a dormitory for the students. The Institute of Pathology was founded three years later, which means that the hospital has had nine medical departments since 1975.
From 1975 to 1985, long-term renovation and new construction measures took place while operations continued. The entire hospital complex received a new main entrance in Wüsthoffstrasse. The three doors at the original representative entrance in the Bäumerplan are permanently closed to visitors. From here an Art Nouveau staircase with ornamental railings and a substructure made of valuable stone leads to all floors in a square shape. There is a continuously open hospital chapel on the ground floor and a small prayer room elsewhere.
The middle management functions in nursing were handed over to the secular staff, so that the nuns concentrated on accompanying the seriously ill and dying. In 1983 the St. Joseph Hospital became an academic teaching hospital for the Free University of Berlin .
In 1995 a children's clinic was opened after extensive construction work and the takeover of 76 pediatric places from the Christophorus Children's Hospital in Lichtenrade . The Clinic for Mental Health in Children and Adolescents was opened in 2003 with 50 places. The redesign of the central emergency room was the focus from 2009–2012 in order to guarantee specialized treatment for children and adults. In 2012 the gynecology department opened a new delivery room with seven birthing rooms and a direct connection to the children's intensive care unit.
The sponsorship of the St. Joseph Hospital Berlin-Tempelhof GmbH in 2014 went to the newly founded, nationwide Elisabeth Vinzenz Verbund as a non-profit organization. This emerged as a merger of the Catholic Charity for St. Elisabeth and the Church Foundation St. Bernward Hildesheim . The central holding company is based in Berlin.
Medical spectrum
The hospital has the following clinics:
- Medical Clinic I with central endoscopy
- Medical clinic II with dialysis
- Clinic for general and visceral surgery
- Clinic for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery
- Spine Surgery Clinic
- Geriatrics Clinic
- Gynecology Clinic
- Obstetrics Clinic
- Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
- Clinic for Pediatric Surgery and Urology
- Clinic for Mental Health in Children and Adolescents
- Clinic for Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine .
The hospital has a total of 495 beds. The St. Joseph Hospital has been the Charité's academic teaching hospital since 1983 . It has the largest non-university nephrology department in Germany. The St. Joseph also specializes in visceral surgery , orthopedics , gastroenterology , geriatrics as well as interdisciplinary tumor therapy and palliative medicine .
Baby hatch
As one of five Berlin hospitals, the St. Joseph Hospital has a baby hatch that mothers can use to anonymously hand in their babies after the birth. The baby hatch is located on the outside wall of the neonatology department at Gontermannstraße 41. A clearly visible sign from the sidewalk indicates this; the way to the baby hatch is protected from prying eyes by a high fence. According to a Berlin-wide agreement, no specific figures on usage are given.
location
The St. Joseph Hospital is located at Wüsthoffstraße 15 and can be reached by bus lines 140 (stop Wüsthoffstraße), 184 (stop Gontermannstraße ) and 248 (stop Gontermannstraße; Bäumerplan ). The Südkreuz train station is also not far away.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berlin Week - St. Joseph Hospital Berlin, clinic with the highest birth rate in Germany.
- ↑ LDL Berlin: St. Joseph Hospital
- ↑ St. Joseph Hospital Berlin - History. .
- ^ Health advisor Berlin - St. Joseph Hospital: The clinic for the neighborhood .
- ↑ Home page: Baby hatches and anonymous births in Berlin. In: berlin.de. June 15, 2015, accessed April 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Baby flap for women in emergency Berlin. In: sjk.de. April 9, 2018, accessed April 3, 2018 .
- ↑ St. Joseph Hospital in Tempelhof: A day in Germany's largest maternity hospital. In: tagesspiegel.de . April 1, 2018, accessed April 3, 2018 .
- ↑ St. Joseph Hospital - Directions .