University Hospital Frankfurt
| University Hospital Frankfurt | |
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| Sponsorship | Public corporation |
| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| state | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 5 '41 " N , 8 ° 39' 40" E |
| medical director | Jürgen Graf |
| Care level | Maximum care |
| beds | 1497 |
| Employee | approx. 4301 full and part-time employees |
| including doctors | around 1152 |
| Affiliation | Goethe University Frankfurt am Main |
| founding | 1914 |
| Website | kgu.de |
The University Hospital Frankfurt is the hospital of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (KGU) in Frankfurt am Main and is therefore a corporation under public law . It is located on Theodor-Stern-Kai in the districts of Niederrad and Sachsenhausen-Nord .
Key figures
The hospital has existed since 1914, the year the university was founded. Parts of the university clinic or integrated institutes and affiliated institutes were partially founded beforehand, including the Carolinum Dental University Institute. Of around 4,300 employees, around 1,150 are doctors or scientists and around 1,185 are nurses. Around 51,000 inpatients and 450,000 outpatients are cared for every year. 14 lecture halls are available for 4018 students . Schools and further education opportunities for nursing and technical assistants in medicine are connected. With a capacity of 1,497 beds, it is the largest hospital in Hesse in terms of the number of beds, ahead of the Kassel Clinic , the Fulda Clinic and the hospitals of the combined University Clinic Gießen and Marburg . The former "Städtische Kliniken Offenbach" (today Sana Klinikum Offenbach) were reduced in 2010 to 926 beds. Orthopedic patients are cared for in an independent hospital, the Orthopedic University Clinic Friedrichsheim , which goes back to a "Association for Cripple Care" founded in Wiesbaden in 1909.
Facilities
The Frankfurt University Hospital is home to 25 medical clinics and institutes as well as another 25 research institutes. It is one of the German transplant centers and offers a special isolation ward for the treatment of highly infectious patients. Since the mid-1980s, HIV- infected patients have been treated and the disease AIDS has been researched. The hospital is prepared for an MANV situation and carried out a related exercise in 2009.
Clinic and institute building
The clinics were built in a pavilion style. With an area of around 460,000 square meters , the area of the university hospital is about the same size as Frankfurt's old town . In the 1970s, more buildings and an elongated central building that dominated the complex were added. Compact, process-optimized structures enable short distances for patients, staff and material; the building has evolved.
In 2004 a new lecture hall building and a "research tower" were put into operation. This was followed at the end of 2007 by an expansion of the central building, which houses the central emergency room , imaging diagnostics , the surgery department and an intensive care unit . A helipad has been set up on the roof . The renovation of the central building and its facade was completed in 2011, further construction work followed.
Construction work
In addition to the already completed renovations and new buildings described above, the University Hospital is pursuing a far-reaching renovation plan. The aim of this is to bring the clinics, clinical institutes and clinical centers closer together spatially and thus to be able to use synergy effects. In the course of this, a modernization and adaptation to the capacity utilization of the clinic will be implemented. The renovation is being carried out by Department 4, Structural Development, the University Clinic together with the State Office for Construction and Real Estate Hessen .
A new farm building is currently under construction, in which a canteen, kitchen and seminar rooms will be housed, and a new parent-child center . In the latter, obstetrics and neonatology , which are currently located at the other end of the clinic premises, are to be more closely linked to the children's clinic. A neonatal care center with an intensive care unit of the highest classification level (level 1 center) is also to be built here.
Furthermore, a large extension is currently being built on the main house (house 23) on the side facing away from the Main. In this, the centralization of the clinics is to be further advanced (for example by moving the clinic for neurology) and also the operating theater and intensive care capacities of the clinic will be expanded. In addition, several new normal wards, an intensive care unit and another operating theater area with eight rooms, including a so-called hybrid operating room, are being built .
The new Audimax with space for 550 students was completed in 2016. For the winter semester 2017/18, new freshmen could be welcomed in the lecture hall for the first time. The so-called "Medicum" was also completed in 2016, in which the deanery of the department, examination and seminar rooms as well as a complete simulation clinic (including ward beds, an operating room and topic-specific training rooms, such as a " messie room") are housed. The simulation clinic is operated by the Frankfurt interdisciplinary simulation training, "FIneST" for short.
Controversy
In December 2018, the magazine Der Spiegel reported irregularities in nuclear medicine therapy for prostate cancer. According to the article, patients were systematically treated with a novel therapeutic approach ( PSMA therapy ). The treatment was contrary to the recommendations of the clinic's own tumor board and not in accordance with the medical guidelines . The clinic rejected the allegations, in addition, the senior physician mentioned in the article had not worked for the University Hospital Frankfurt am Main for a long time.
literature
- Udo Benzenhöfer : University Medicine in Frankfurt am Main from 1914 to 2014 . Kontur-Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-944998-01-5 .
- Udo Benzenhöfer: The Frankfurt University Medicine between 1933 and 1945 . klemm + oelschläger, Münster / Ulm 2012, ISBN 978-3-86281-050-5 .
Web links
- Clinic website
- Site plan of the site (PDF; 840 KB)
- University Center for Tumor Diseases Frankfurt (UCT)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Goethe University - Science and Health since 1890. Retrieved on February 28, 2020 .
- ↑ The Frankfurt University Hospital in 2018 in figures. In: University Hospital Frankfurt am Main. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
- ^ Website of the university clinic. Retrieved September 29, 2010 .
- ↑ www.orthopaedische-uniklinik.de Clinic history
- ^ Website of the university clinic. Retrieved September 30, 2010 .
- ↑ Sad result . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1986 ( online ).
- ↑ Press release of November 12, 2009
- ↑ http://www.helipad.org/app/default.asp?padId=712
- ^ Website of the university clinic. Retrieved March 9, 2015 .
- ^ Website of Department 4 - Structural Development of the University Hospital Frankfurt. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Parent-Child Center University Hospital Frankfurt | h2s. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
- ^ Frankfurt University Hospital - House 23 DEF. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
- ^ University Hospital Frankfurt - House 23 DEF - OP area. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
- ^ University Hospital Frankfurt - Audimax House 22A. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
- ↑ University Hospital Frankfurt - Medicum House 10A. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Goethe University Frankfurt The patient died, but we can try again - 1. Retrieved on January 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Kristina Gnirke, Nicolai Kwasniewski: PSMA therapy against prostate cancer: The business with hope . In: Spiegel Online . December 20, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 7, 2019]).
- ↑ Deutscher Ärzteverlag GmbH, editor of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Anger about therapy for cancer patients at the University Hospital ... December 20, 2018, accessed on January 7, 2019 .