Waid City Hospital
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The Stadtspital Waid or Waidspital is a hospital in the Canton of Zurich and a service department of the Health and Environment Department of the City of Zurich .
location
The Waid City Hospital, which opened in 1953, is located in the area of the Wipkingen and Höngg districts ( District 10 ). Compared to the city center, the hospital complex ( 493 m above sea level ) is around 90 meters above the level of Lake Zurich, in the north of the city center, on the southern ridge of the Käferberg .
Catchment area
The catchment area includes the city of Zurich to the right of the Limmat and some neighboring communities to the right of the Lake Zurich and Limmat. The service mandate of the Canton of Zurich obliges the Waid City Hospital to provide extended basic care in the Zurich North hospital region , in which around 180,000 (as of April 2008) people live.
organization
Stadtspital Waid is a public acute hospital for all insurance classes of the KVG .
In the 2007 reporting year, the number of inpatients treated rose to 9,124. The average length of stay fell year-on-year by 0.5 days from 11.4 to 10.9 days, with a total of 97,235 care days (0.9% increase). At 88.7 percent, bed occupancy was above the already high occupancy of the previous year (88.0%). Of the total of 300 operated beds, an average of 267 beds were occupied.
Clinics and Institutes
The hospital complex includes three clinics, two institutes as well as the so-called therapeutic services and internal hospital departments.
With the completion of the overall structural renovation, a magnetic resonance tomograph (MRT) was put into operation in the Institute for Radiology and Nuclear Medicine in summer 2007 .
Since the complete renovation in 2008, the Waid City Hospital has offered a modern infrastructure for its patients and also for its employees.
Clinics
Institutes
Therapeutic services
other areas
People and professions in the Waid City Hospital
Around 1,000 employees ensure the well-being of the patients and the operation (maintenance / technology / administration) of the Waidspital.
The Stadtspital Waid is a so-called training hospital as part of the educational mandate , with training offers , apprenticeships and internships in the field of nursing, therapeutic services, medical technology , medical training as well as administration and operational services.
Vocational training and further education is possible in the areas of medicine and nursing.
building
The Waid City Hospital is located on the terrace of the Waidberghang, the staff houses are located about 500 meters east of the hospital complex on Tiechestrasse and connect with it to form a loose urban unit. The buildings of the hospital complex are staggered along the street and adapted to the topographical situation, and the basement floors are accordingly three-story on the valley side and two-story on the slope side. Due to the lengthways construction of the houses, the patients' garden and relaxation area are spatially and acoustically separated from Tiechestrasse.
In terms of architectural history , the buildings of the Waidspital are typical representatives of post-war architecture. The staggered arrangement, which includes the outside space and defines different garden areas, is characteristic. On closer inspection, the unspectacular saddle roof buildings reveal a careful design: lightly painted, delicate balcony railings, white-framed facade openings, white-blue framed wooden windows, as well as the design of the entrance areas and inside. With a color concept and changing surface materials, an attempt was made to create a friendly, homely ambience with simple means.
The staff houses were part of the project competition announced in 1946 for the Waid city hospital. They should be spatially clearly separated from the actual hospital building and were realized in two construction phases in 1953 and 1957.
Until 2006, the four staff houses of the city hospital were under monument protection . The standard of construction was considered to be out of date and most of the small residential units were rented out to third parties. Due to structural deficiencies and a usage study, the city council applied for the staff houses to be removed from the inventory of art and cultural-historical protected objects of municipal importance and to be replaced by a new staff house at a location in the immediate vicinity of the hospital.
history
The origins of the two city hospitals, Waid and Triemli, go back to the great shortage of hospital beds, which reached unsustainable proportions in the first half of the 20th century. After no political agreement was possible for several decades, the City of Zurich took the initiative with two major projects that are unique in Switzerland.
The Zur Waid houses served as a hospital from 1907. In 1918 the old Waidgut was converted into a municipal hospital and in 1962/63 replaced by today's Käferberg care center .
The Waid City Hospital (today 261 beds) opened in 1953 to supply the Zurich North region, followed in 1970 by the Triemli City Hospital for the population on the left of the Limmat, which also provides cross-regional services (today 555 beds).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The field name Waid refers to the pastureland on the Käferberg. Source: Gang dur Alt-Züri website.
- ↑ a b Source: Website walk through Alt-Züri, street names
- ^ Source for the paragraphs Organization and Clinics / Institutes: Website of the Waid City Hospital.
- ^ Extract from the minutes of the Zurich City Council of March 8, 2006.
- ↑ Numbers and facts ( memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Brief profile of Triemli
literature
- Rolf Gilgen, Pascale Gmür (eds.): Mirror image of life: 50 years Waid City Hospital Zurich. Verlag NZZ , Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-03823-028-6 .
- Festschrift for the opening of the Waid City Hospital. Published by the Zurich Health and Economic Office, Zurich 1953.
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '55.6 " N , 8 ° 31' 11.4" E ; CH1903: 681.62 thousand / 250334