Specialized hospital
A specialist hospital or a specialist clinic is usually a hospital or an organizationally designated part of a hospital of standard care that has specialized in the treatment of a specific disease or at least related diseases. If a specialist clinic in Germany is included in the hospital plan of a federal state, it is a specialist hospital.
Historical background
The first specialist clinics were founded around 1900 (or even before) z. B. founded under now rather strange-sounding names as an insane asylum or a drinking institution. At the same time, clinics were set up in spa and bathing resorts that were geared towards treating spa guests with the indications of the spa. Further specialist clinics were established after the Second World War . B. for tuberculosis sufferers as a pulmonary hospital.
Most recently, specialist clinics were set up in numerous places from the 1960s onwards, since by the end of the 19th century or at the latest at the beginning of the 20th century, almost every city had its own hospital for general medicine, not least for reasons of status . As a result of the municipal reorganization in the 20th century, neighboring cities and municipalities were often merged into newly founded large municipalities or already existing cities were incorporated. At the same time, the cost pressure on hospitals increased in the second half of the 20th century, which led to the closure of numerous facilities. Thus, for mostly smaller hospitals, the only chance of survival was specialization in one specialty of treatment. In the course of this, numerous specialist hospitals were established that only treat the specific clinical picture according to their respective focus.
Examples of specialist clinics
- Pulmonary clinic
- Psychiatry / psychotherapy
- rehabilitation
- Addictions
- Metabolic diseases
- Psychosomatic Clinic
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Klein: Foray through hospital law - conference report on the hospital law day 2013 in Düsseldorf, NZS 2013, p. 777