University Hospital St. Pölten

The new main entrance in 2007

The St. Pölten University Hospital is a hospital in Sankt Pölten and is run by the Lower Austrian Regional Clinic Holding . It is located at Dunant-Platz 1 in the north of the city and is the largest hospital in Lower Austria with around 1140 beds . Together with the University Hospital Krems (about 460 beds) and the University Hospital Tulln forms (about 440 beds) is the University Hospitals of 2013, founded in Krems settled Karl Landsteiner Private University of Health Sciences .

history

Available beds
year	beds
1895	150
1915	320
1936	550
1967	792
1981	1,143
2006	1,077
2019	1,139

The hospital in 1895

The foundation stone of the hospital was laid on January 18, 1894. The building was designed by the Viennese building officer Eugen Sehnal and on October 5, 1895, the new hospital was built according to the pavilion system and equipped with 150 beds. Upon completion, the surgery (pavilion 1), internal medicine (pavilion 2) and infection (pavilion 3) stations as well as administration were available. On October 5, 1895, the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef I personally opened the Emperor Franz Joseph Hospital in St. Pölten, which was named after him .

In the operating theater, which was completed in 1895, 275 operations were performed in the first year.

The complex was expanded in 1915 to include pavilion 1 and pavilion 2. At this point in time, the number of beds was 320.

Between 1927 and 1936, Pavilion 1 was expanded to three floors and various additions to Pavilion 3. In addition, surgery was expanded and specialist departments such as X-ray , gynecology , ENT and eye departments were set up.

Pavilion 4 was put into operation in 1941. During the Second World War , the hospital was partially destroyed by bombs. The recovery of the facilities caused great difficulties.

After years of negotiations, a general plan for the new hospital building was decided in the municipal council in 1961. An architects' competition was organized for this purpose. The new building was completely completed in 1975.

The hospital in 1981

In the period from 1976 to 1981, some new departments were opened:

the orthopedic and oral and maxillofacial surgery on the second floor of the new building
the first dedicated intensive care unit on the second floor of the new building
the dialysis ward on the third floor of the new building
a ward of the neurological department on the fourth floor of the new building
the eye department and the visual school on the seventh floor of the new building
the isotope station in pavilion 4

The new building of the nursing school was opened in 1977. The children's pavilion , which still exists today, followed in 1986. In June 1989, the town council passed a fundamental decision to expand the hospital for maximum care.

The following additions and departments were opened from 1990 to 1995:

a helipad on the roof of the south wing of the main building
the Pathological Institute
the 3rd Medical Department with a focus on cardiology
the cardiac surgery
Operating room container for urology and surgery
the plastic and reconstructive surgery as a separate department.

In 1998, a gamma camera and a surgical robot (Robodoc) were purchased in the orthopedic department. In addition, the anesthesiological intermediate care unit was opened on the second floor of the new building.

The expansion of the St. Pölten Hospital began in 1999, and a year later the new oncological outpatient clinic was opened on the third floor of the new building.

The dialysis station's water treatment system at that time was put into operation in 2001, and the first excimer laser in Lower Austria for the eye department was purchased.

In 2002 the new first aid department of the 3rd Medical Department and the Neurosurgery Department were opened as a temporary facility. The Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology was founded.

At the beginning of 2005, the state of Lower Austria took over legal ownership of the clinic. In November, the new functional and bed wing (the new name is House B) with 174 beds, a central operating room unit, an emergency room and a central ambulance went into operation.

On December 7, 2006, Governor Erwin Pröll opened the new entrance hall .

In 2007, full operation of the new central operating room was possible, the intensive care unit was adapted and the patient administration was relocated. On March 19, 2007 the groundbreaking ceremony for the multi-storey car park on Mühlweg took place.

On May 6, 2008, the new 2nd medical department was put into operation. After that, pavilion 4 and the former pathology were demolished and an access ramp for first aid accidents was built in a one-way system with parking spaces for rescue vehicles. Furthermore, the intensive care unit 1 and the first medical dialysis unit in building A were put into operation.

In 2008 the adaptation projects for the gynecology ward, dermatology and ENT outpatient department were tackled. The multi-storey car park on Mühlweg with 683 parking spaces was opened on August 1st, 2008. A modern diagnostic lane in Austria was recently installed in the central laboratory.

In 2014, the St. Pölten State Hospital was renamed St. Pölten University Hospital and medical students are trained.

Houses C and G were opened in 2018. Among other things, two basement floors with 250 parking spaces have been created on seven levels with almost 60,000 m². In the basement there is also the employee cloakroom and a bicycle parking space. The emergency and accident center, a central ambulance area and the clinical institutes for medical radiology and physical medicine are located on the ground floor, while the two in-house clinical institutes for laboratory medicine and hygiene and microbiology are on the level above. Level 2 contains the central operating room group C with an adjoining recovery area and three intensive care units with 12 beds each. On the three levels above there are almost identical bed wings for the clinical departments for trauma surgery, general surgery, cardiac surgery and neurosurgery. Level 6 serves as the technical center for the floors below. The helipad is located on the roof with a direct connection to the emergency and accident center.

organization

The legal entity of the St. Pölten University Hospital is the Niederösterreichische Landeskliniken-Holding, a subsidiary of the Province of Lower Austria.

The clinic management for the University Clinic St. Pölten consists of the collegial management: