University Children's Hospital in Basel

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University Children's Hospital in Basel
legal form
founding 1862
Seat Basel , Switzerland
management
  • Marco Fischer, Chief Executive Officer
Number of employees 883
Branch hospital
Website www.ukbb.ch
As of November 9, 2017

The colorful facade of the University Children's Hospital in Basel

The University Children's Hospital in Basel ( UKBB for short ) is an independent, university center for pediatric and adolescent medicine as well as for teaching and research in Basel .

After several years of planning and construction, the UKBB, which has existed since 1999, started operations in the new building at Spitalstrasse 33 in Basel on January 29, 2011. The colorful facade of the building is considered the hospital's landmark. Almost 900 employees from various departments look after around 6,700 inpatient infants, children and adolescents each year and carry out around 84,000 outpatient treatments. The UKBB has the largest pediatric orthopedic department in Switzerland and one of the largest children's emergency wards in Switzerland.

Emergency room

The emergency department at UKBB is manned around the clock. She is a contact point for emergencies both on site and by telephone. With over 31,000 consultations per year, it is one of the largest in Switzerland. Depending on the rush, she handles over a hundred consultations and up to 70 telephone inquiries per day.

history

The city of Basel owes the establishment of a children's hospital in Basel to Anna Elisabeth Burckhardt-Vischer. She had the outbuilding of her house in the Kränzlein , at St. Johanns-Vorstadt 39, rebuilt so that it could be used to care for sick children. In 1846 she opened the small nursing home. On the opening day, three of the six hospital beds were already occupied by small patients. Medical care was provided free of charge by Dr. Carl Steckeisen taken over. Carolina Rauh, a nurse from Württemberg , was responsible for caring for the patients .

In 1852 the sisters Anna Elisabeth Burckhardt-Vischer, Juliana Birmann-Vischer and Charlotte His-Vischer founded the "Children's Hospital Basel" foundation . After the death of the three women, the property on the banks of the Rhine, in Kleinbasel, was bought and the construction of the children's hospital was initiated.

Children's Hospital Basel

Children's hospital around 1870
Recording room around 1870

The original birthday of the Basel Children's Hospital is January 2nd, 1862. The newly built hospital on the banks of the Rhine was opened with a small celebration. At the beginning it had 40 beds and for a long time was considered a prototype for a children's clinic. The lack of an operating room soon made itself felt adversely. A reception room was set up as a provisional operating room for minor interventions. It was only around 30 years after the opening of the children's hospital that the first real operating theater could finally be put into operation. Soon after, the first X-ray machine. As the population increased, so did the number of patients in the children's hospital. While there were 120 in 1862, around 6,500 patients had to be cared for in 2009.

Merger to form the University Children's Hospital in Basel

At the beginning of 1999, the two cantonal children's hospitals in Basel and on the Bruderholz merged to form the University Children's Hospital in Basel (UKBB), a public-law organization with three locations. While general paediatrics, an emergency ward and a polyclinic were housed on Römergasse in Basel, children's surgery, pediatric orthopedics, intensive care as well as a further emergency ward and a polyclinic were located on the Bruderholz (Basel-Landschaft). The neonatology department, i.e. the department for sick newborns and premature babies, with its 16 beds was integrated into the new building of the Basel women's hospital and thus officially became the third location of the UKBB. After a short time, however, it became clear that distributing operations to different locations would cause problems. For this reason, the two cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft were looking for a suitable solution: In August 2000, the two governments spoke out in favor of a new hospital at a single location on the area of ​​the former women's clinic in Basel.

organization

administration

The UKBB is administratively managed by a management team made up of people from different areas of the hospital.

In addition to numerous employees in the fields of medicine and nursing, the University Children's Hospital in Basel employs other people in various administrative departments.

Departments / departments

  • Adolescent medicine
  • anesthesia
  • Care Management
  • dermatology
  • Endocrinology / Diabetology
  • research
  • Gastroenterology
  • gynecology
  • Infectiology / vaccinology
  • Intensive care
  • cardiology
  • Pediatric surgery
  • Pediatric Medicine
  • Medical genetics
  • Neonatology
  • Nephrology
  • Neuro / Developmental Pediatrics
  • Oncology / hematology
  • Orthopedics
  • Pediatric laboratory
  • Nursing service
  • Pulmonology
  • psychiatry
  • radiology
  • rheumatology
  • day clinic
  • Therapies / Pedagogy
  • Hospital education

further services

In the area of ​​care management, the University Children's Hospital offers additional services that benefit patients, their relatives and ultimately also the employees. In addition to hospital pedagogy, care management also includes the visiting service, social counseling, the care team and interpreting services, as well as Villa Kunterbunt and the library / toy library. Hospital tours for school classes are also organized by Care Management.

Daycare center Villa Kunterbunt

The University Children's Hospital has a day care center. This is known as Villa Kunterbunt and offers not only supervised painting and handicrafts, but also a library (branch of the GGG City Library Basel) and toy library, where games and books can be borrowed. This can be used by siblings but also by UKBB patients.

Hospital school

In order to bring the children to bed with everyday life, there is a hospital pedagogy department at the UKBB, which is part of the Care Management department. Trained teachers practice math or French with the children. They adapt to the school material and the state of health of the respective child. The teachers work closely with the child's school so that the child does not lose touch in class despite illness.

Organizations / associations / cooperations / foundations

Belop - accompanying parents during their child's surgery

The parent guides look after parents whose children are currently undergoing an operation or have an examination under anesthesia. A parent companion stays by the parents' side until the child falls asleep. Then she shows them where to wait and helps them to find their way around the hospital. She will have a coffee with them if requested or just listen. The parent companion is in contact with the operation team and can provide information about the duration of the operations. As soon as the child is back in the recovery room, the companion brings the parents back to him. Parental guides are on duty every day at the UKBB. Belop thus relieves both hospital staff and parents.

Belop has been a project of the Pro UKBB foundation since the beginning of 2019.

Hospital clowns

Through the Theodora Foundation , the little patients are visited three times a week by the dream doctors (Tue / Wed / Thu).

Foundation Pro UKBB

The Pro University Children's Hospital in Basel was founded on January 6, 2005. She is committed to the long-term development of the University Children's Hospital in Basel (UKBB).

Ronald McDonald House

The Ronald McDonald House Basel has been offering parents of sick children a temporary home since the end of 2010.

research

Research areas

The clinical-epidemiological (practice-related) and experimental research areas represented at the UKBB are integrated into the main research areas of the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel and networked with numerous working groups from clinical and biomedical research at home and abroad. The so-called basic research of the UKBB is based in the Department of Biomedicine at the university.

The following main research areas are of particular importance at the UKBB:

  • Developmental Pediatrics / Pneumology
  • Immunology / Infectiology
  • Oncology / hematology
  • Pediatric orthopedics

Education, training and further education

The University Children's Hospital in Basel trains future paediatricians, nurses and therapists. The hospital also offers apprenticeships in a wide variety of areas.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The beginnings of the Basel Children's Hospital
  2. in the Basel residential area of St. Johann

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '49.4 "  N , 7 ° 34' 53.7"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred ten thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine  /  two hundred and sixty-eight thousand one hundred and twenty-one