Kalwang Accident Hospital
| Kalwang Accident Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | AUVA |
| place | Kalwang |
| state | Styria |
| Country | Austria |
| management | Harald Etschmaier (Medical Director) Helmut Kreiner (Administrative Director) Michael Pichler (Nursing Director) |
| beds | 70 |
| Employee | 204 |
| including doctors | 31 |
| Website | www.ukhkalwang.at |
The Kalwang Accident Hospital is operated by the General Accident Insurance Fund (AUVA) and is located in the Upper Styrian market town of Kalwang .
Services
The services of the UKH in Kalwang mainly include the conservative and operative care of bone, joint and soft tissue injuries, in particular the osteosynthetic treatment of bone fractures and the prosthetic treatment of joints.
The UKH Kalwang also treats acute and chronic sports injuries . Arthroscopy is of particular importance in the surgical treatment of joint injuries, the trauma surgical treatment of cranial, spinal, thoracic, abdominal and pelvic injuries, especially in polytrauma patients, as well as the treatment of consequential damage after accidental injuries and degenerative diseases of the musculoskeletal system including physiotherapy.
In addition, due to its location on the traffic axis of the Pyhrn Autobahn (A9 / E57 / E59 ) it was an important supra-regional location for the emergency medical service (no longer motorized since July 2015). It is the only UKH in Austria outside one of the main urban centers (the other locations are the UKHs Wien Lorenz Böhler and Wien Meidling , Linz , Salzburg , Graz and Klagenfurt - otherwise emergency medicine takes place at the general hospitals).
In 2013 the hospital employed 204 people, including 31 doctors.
history
The hospital looks back on more than 100 years of history.
The landowner Rudolf von Gutmann built the Kalwang hospital for his workers from 1912 to 1914. With the beginning of the First World War it was used as a hospital for the wounded, temporarily it was also a convalescent center with attached prosthesis workshops. In the twenties, mainly injured people after work-related accidents in agriculture and forestry were cared for there.
The Landwirtschaftskasse leased Gutmannsche hospital in 1929 and appointed the young doctor Hellmut Lederer to head it. Two years later, the fund bought the hospital and converted it into an accident hospital.
In 1948 the agricultural and forestry social insurance took over the hospital and arranged for extensions. Since 1958, the hospital has also been a training center for trauma surgery. From 1929 to 1962 Hellmut Lederer and his assistant doctors treated 34,000 inpatient and 45,000 outpatient cases at the Kalwang Accident Hospital. The hospital not only treated the victims of agricultural accidents at work, as in the beginning, but with the growth of ski tourism also many victims of skiing accidents, the number of which was high due to the lack of safety bindings. In addition, there were the victims of numerous traffic accidents on the roads of the Enns, Palten and Liesingtales, especially in the course of the 1970s with increasing numbers on the dreaded " guest worker route ", the transit route (Balkan-Munich) of the Schoberpass road (B 113) through the Upper Styria. The small village cemetery of Kalwang, next to the UKH, had its own section of the foreign Kalwang victims, of which only five graves are left today.
By 1962, a new building for staff and administration was built, a new operating theater was created and a helicopter landing pad ( ICAO code of the Austrian Air Rescue LOGJ ) laid out. In connection with this, the ambulance service was greatly expanded.
In 1966, after 37 years, the now well-known Dr. Lederer retired, his successor was Dr. Hans Krotschek. Lederer died in 1976, and his funeral took place with great public sympathy.
In 1974 the Agricultural and Forestry Social Insurance Institution was dissolved and the hospital was transferred to the Farmers Social Insurance Institution .
In 1982 the AUVA took over the hospital and was able to complete the network of its sanatoriums in Austria. A few years later, the AUVA board decided to expand and modernize the UKH; it should have the same standard as the other acute hospitals of the AUVA.
In 2007, the Accident Hospital Kalwang was the first AUVA hospital and the second hospital in Austria, alongside the hospital of the Barmherzigen Schwestern Ried in Upper Austria, to undergo a certification process based on the criteria of the KTQ (cooperation for transparency and quality in hospitals). This procedure, developed by hospital experts in Germany , not only examines individual departments of a hospital, but also the processes in the entire house. The process focuses on the areas of patient orientation, employee orientation, safety in hospitals, information systems, hospital management and quality management. The planned revision of the industry's internal “seal of approval” 2010 was also successfully completed. Since 2007, the hospital has also been integrated into the quality management system CIRPS (Critical Incident Reporting & Prevention System) , for which the UKH Graz acts as a pilot hospital.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Medicine and Nursing. In: ukhkalwang.at.at> Accident Hospitals> Kalwang. AUVA, accessed June 24, 2013 .
- ↑ Red Cross local offices in the Leoben district. In: www.st.roteskreuz.at> Who we are> Dienststellen> Leoben> Ortsstellen> Kalwang. Austrian Red Cross, 2003, accessed July 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Facts and figures from the Kalwang Accident Hospital ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ a b c d Municipality of Kalwang: The Kalwang Hospital. Kalwang municipality, accessed on June 9, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d Chronicle of the Accident Hospital Kalwang ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. Dead link: The website is no longer available, as of June 9, 2018.
- ↑ Fred Kroell: The cemetery next to the Kalwang accident hospital - as the last stop on a journey ... In: E5, the deadly poison of the 70s - the website on the history of the guest worker route. rundfunkmuseum.at, accessed on April 15, 2011 .
- ↑ der fred: The guest worker route - graves of Turkish road victims discovered in Upper Styria. In: beaver . August 3, 2010, accessed August 21, 2018 .
- ↑ The ÖAMTC rescue helicopter Christophorus 14 is now stationed in Niederöblarn in the Ennstal. Christophorus location Christophorus 14, Styria ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , oeamtc.at
- ↑ KTQ-certified hospitals , cooperation for transparency and quality in hospitals, ktq.de
- ↑ Awards of the Accident Hospital Kalwang ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ Seal of approval for Kalwang Accident Hospital extended. (No longer available online.) In: Leoben News »Economy. March 2, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 15, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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↑ Herbert Kaloud, Rudolf Kabas: introduction of a "Critical Incident Reporting and Prevention System - cirps" in the Emergency Hospital Graz. In: Social Security Online → Archive → Issues 2009. Main Association of Austrian Social Insurance Institutions, accessed in 2009 . Elisabeth-Maria Exner: Risk management under the aspect of the Critical Incident Reporting System CIRS . Thesis. Ed .: Medical University of Graz. Graz November 15, 2010, 10.1.3 "Critical Incident Reporting & Prevention System - CIRPS" in the Accident Hospital Graz , p.
44 f . ( pdf , online.medunigraz.at). - ↑ Quality management in the Accident Hospital Kalwang ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ′ 30.1 ″ N , 14 ° 45 ′ 37.9 ″ E