University Hospital Cologne
| University Hospital Cologne
|
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| legal form | Institute of public right |
| founding | November 11, 1908 (as Lindenburg Hospital) |
| Seat | Cologne , Germany |
| management | Edgar Schömig, CEO |
| Number of employees | 10,932 (2017) |
| sales | € 985 million (income 2017) |
| Branch | Healthcare |
| Website | www.uk-koeln.de |
The University Hospital Cologne is a maximum care hospital and takes on social tasks in research, teaching and patient care. The hospital campus is located in the Cologne district of Lindenthal .
Structural data
With around 1,500 beds (as of 2017), the Cologne University Clinic is the largest hospital in Cologne and cared for around 63,200 inpatients and around 312,500 outpatients in 2017 (2017 annual report). On the campus of the university clinic, including the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging, there are currently 59 clinics and institutes (together 80 buildings on 220,000 square meters). Around 10,900 employees (as of 2017; 80% of them women) are involved in health care, research and teaching. In 2012 the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne had 43 W3 professorships, 53 W2 professorships and 10 W1 professorships (permanent positions). The annual income in 2015 amounted to € 887 million, of which € 5.1 million was profit (after taxes, in the previous year € 2.9 million). The balance sheet total was shown in the 2012 annual report at € 840,474,339.80 (in the previous year € 710,599,071.10).
The medical faculty trains around 3,000 medical and dental students. It is one of the founding faculties of the University of Cologne . Edgar Schömig has been the medical director and chairman of the board since 2006, Damian Grüttner has been the commercial director since 2019 and Marina Filipović has been the nursing director since 2020. The faculty is currently under the direction of Gereon Fink. The clinic has been a public law institution since 2001 .
Special facilities
In 1980, the first chair for stereotaxic and functional neurosurgery in Germany was established at the University Clinic in Cologne . In the Clinic for Stereotaxic and Functional Neurosurgery , patients with neurological diseases such as Parkinson's , dystonia and, in the experimental stage, patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and severe depression are treated by implanting brain electrodes.
In the Center for Integrated Oncology Cologne-Bonn (CIO), founded in 2005, more than 30 specialist clinics and institutes are combined for interdisciplinary optimization in cooperation with the University Hospital Bonn . Since 2007, the CIO has received targeted funding from the German Cancer Aid as one of thirteen top oncological centers in Germany.
In October 2007 the "Heart Center" was inaugurated, under the roof of which the clinics for cardiology , cardi - thoracic surgery , vascular surgery and pediatric cardiology are located on an area of approx. 30,000 m² .
In the nationwide Excellence Initiative in 2007, the University of Cologne was awarded the contract for the Cluster of Excellence for Research into Cellular Stress Responses in Age-Associated Diseases (CECAD) , which is located on the campus of the Cologne University Hospital. In summer 2012, the funding was extended to 2017.
In November 2007, a neurological early rehabilitation unit was added to the university hospital. The Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging , which was newly established in Cologne to research the fundamentals of "normal" aging using model organisms, will also be located on the university campus in the area between the children's and eye clinics. The foundation stone for the new institute building was laid on May 5, 2010. It is the fourth Max Planck Institute in Cologne.
In 2008 the Cologne Consultant Concept developed in the Clinic for Neurology, a new model of medical care in hospitals, was awarded first prize in the hospital innovation competition.
In January 2009 the new research building of the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (ZMMK) was inaugurated, which was built by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for around € 29 million and in which molecular changes in diseases are to be researched on an area of 6000 m².
The student and office building at Cologne University Hospital was inaugurated at the beginning of 2010. The five-storey new building is primarily used to expand the teaching facilities of the medical faculty at the University of Cologne. In addition to seminar rooms, there is also the Interprofessional Skills Lab and Simulation Center (KISS), which was founded in 2003 at the same time as the “Model Study Course in Human Medicine”. Here, students can learn patient-related skills such as anamnesis , emergency medicine and technical skills such as taking blood samples .
In 2012, the "Oncological Training Therapy" (OTT) project, which was unique in Germany, was started at the Cologne University Hospital. In the rooms of the women's clinic, a training area was opened exclusively for cancer patients. With the model project “Sport for Cancer Patients”, the implementation of the latest scientific findings in therapeutic practice, which is also required by the German Cancer Aid, is to be checked. The trainers are specially trained therapists and sports scientists from the German Sport University in Cologne who work with clinic doctors.
Scientific focus
In the 2011 annual report, the following six scientific focal points of the University Clinic and the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne are identified:
- Tissue homeostasis, metabolism, and degeneration
- Tumor, infection and defense
- Neuromodulation
- Pathomechanisms of the Aging Heart (under construction)
- Cellular plasticity (under construction)
- Health literacy in complex environments (under construction)
The following special research areas (SFB) are currently installed at Cologne University Hospital:
- SFB 829: Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Skin Homeostatis (since 2009)
- SFB 670: Cell Autonomous Immunity (since 2006)
In addition, the medical faculty is involved in two other SFBs (SFB 635 and 680) as well as the CECAD cluster of excellence jointly acquired with the University of Cologne . In addition, the following research groups are currently being funded:
- 01KI0771: Clinical research group in clinical infectious diseases: "HIV infection and infections in immunosuppression" (BMBF)
- KFO 219: Basal ganglia-cortex loops: Mechanisms of pathological interactions and their therapeutic modulation (DFG)
- KFO 286: Exploiting defects in the DNA damage response for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (DFG)
- FOR 2240: Lymphangiogenesis and cellular immunity in inflammatory diseases of the eye (DFG)
Since 2012, the University of Cologne has been funded as an "elite university" as part of the excellence initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
At the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Bonn-Cologne-Jülich, Cologne's research focuses on Parkinson's research and new forms of therapy such as deep brain stimulation. In addition, the Cologne-Bonn location was selected as a partner for the German Center for Infection Research (DZI). Central Cologne research focuses on vaccine development against multi-resistant germs and HIV immunology.
History of the medical faculty and the clinic
In 1248 Albertus Magnus founded a general course on behalf of the Dominicans in Cologne , in which not only philosophy , theology and law were taught, but also medicine and natural history. Other orders also maintained general studies. Before that, there was already teaching at the cathedral school. The university , which was founded in 1388 , already received when it was founded by the Free Imperial City of Cologne under Pope Urban VI. a medical school. In 1715 the first Theatrum Anatomicum was created. In the old botanical garden at the cathedral and medicinal plants were grown. In 1798 the university was closed on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte . Medical training continued for a few years at what is now called the Central School , until this too was closed in 1802.
In 1904 the first German academy for practical medicine was founded as a municipal institution in Cologne . She offered the clinical subjects with an emphasis on practical training. It should also serve to educate doctors.
It was not until 1919 that the alma mater (university) was re-established as a municipal institution under the supervision of the Prussian state , at the instigation of the mayor of Cologne, Konrad Adenauer . The academy was accepted as a medical faculty. For this purpose, the city transferred the former city hospital to the university, which was founded in 1855 as a private sanatorium and nursing home for the mentally ill and was renamed "Lindenburg Hospital" in 1908 through the acquisition of additional buildings and departments. Lindenburg originally referred to an estate of the Antonite Order located between Bachemer and Gleueler Straße . Preclinical training began in 1925. With effect from April 1, 1953, the university was incorporated into the state budget on April 1, 1954.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive of annual and quality reports. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Clinics & Institutes. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
- ↑ ... Construction projects at the University Hospital Cologne , information from the University Hospital Cologne, accessed on March 19, 2019
- ↑ 5.1 million euros profit - 400 new jobs. Retrieved July 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Hospital Innovation Competition ( 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.
- ^ Opening according to clinic information on November 15, 2012
- ↑ http://www.medfak.uni-koeln.de/forschung/
- ↑ http://www.medfak.uni-koeln.de/forschung/
- ↑ http://www.medfak.uni-koeln.de/forschung/
- ↑ http://www.bmbf.de/de/1321.php
- ↑ Erich Meuthen: Little Cologne University History , edited by the Rector of the University of Cologne, 1998, pp. 7, 15, 23
- ↑ Meuthen, p. 30
- ↑ Meuthen p. 32
- ↑ Meuthen p. 46
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 30.3 " N , 6 ° 55 ′ 3.2" E