Central Clinic Georgsheil

The planned Georgsheil location is geographically centrally located at the intersection of the main roads from Aurich, Emden and Norden.

The Central Clinic Georgsheil is a planned hospital in the Georgsheil district of the Südbrookmerland community in the Aurich district . It is intended to replace the hospitals in the surrounding cities in Aurich , Emden and Norden , to which it is geographically central. Specifically, these are the Emden Clinic, represented by the partner city of Emden, as well as the Ubbo-Emmius Clinic in Norden and the clinic of the same name in Aurich under the partner Aurich district. For this purpose, a 37 hectare area was acquired east of Uthwerdumer Straße.

The preliminary budget for building the clinic in 2019 was 250 million euros. At the beginning of 2020 it was 350 million euros. The project has been very present in East Frisia politics and media since the 2010s. In 2019, a referendum took place in favor of the construction of a central clinic, after it had initially been rejected in 2017.

history

Presentation of the project

The beginning of the 2010s, the project was first central hospital by the then district administrator of the district of Aurich Harm-Uwe Weber the district council and the then mayor of the city of Emden Bernd Bornemann the City Council presented. In 2013 the project was made public at a press conference by the shareholders and the clinics concerned. All hospitals are in serious deficit with 18 million euros annually, and a central clinic is the economically void alternative. Only emergency medicine should be retained at the three locations. Both parliaments decided to commission a first “Central Hospital Feasibility Study”, the result of which they later saw confirmed. The press reported that both the hospital administrations and their works councils approved the project. The "supporting company central clinic Aurich-Emden-Norden mbH" was founded.

First referendum in 2017

When the public noticed the vehemence with which the two shareholders of the clinics concerned were running the project, opponents in both areas of responsibility organized themselves as an “action alliance clinic maintenance” with a joint internet presence “Ostfriesisches Klinik Journal”. In order to prevent further cost-intensive planning, these organizations sought a referendum against the central clinic. Advocate organizations were not long in coming and wanted to get an opposing referendum. So it came to a so-called greyhound race. The formulation of the group that was the first to collect the required number of signatures would ultimately be up for voting. Both in Emden and in the Aurich district, the opponents of the central clinic won. The referendum had to be made separately for both areas of responsibility and ultimately took place on the same day. A vote against the central clinic in just one of the two areas of responsibility would have toppled the project.

The vote finally took place on June 11, 2017. “Are you in favor of the Emden Hans-Susemihl-Krankenhaus GmbH hospital with its current specialist departments and its medical care centers being retained?” Was decided in Emden with 61.9% yes and 38.1% no votes. In Aurich, 45.5% voted for and 54.5% against the formulation: “Should the existing Ubbo-Emmius clinics at the Aurich and Norden locations be retained?” The rejection of the central clinic in Emden was enough to prevent the project.

Second referendum 2019

In the following year 2018, it was discussed how cost reductions could be achieved through improved cooperation between the three clinics concerned. For this purpose, the joint sponsoring company now also acts as the joint management level for the three clinics. It also got the name ANEVITA.

In the same year it became known that the binding period for the referendum for the two parliaments concerned expires after two years on June 6, 2019. This opened up the possibility for the city of Emden to continue the planning for the central clinic, contrary to the citizens' request. However, their opponents failed with a lawsuit at the Oldenburg Administrative Court . At the beginning of 2019, the council of the city of Emden decided on a new referendum for May 26, 2019 with the question: “Are you in favor of your city of Emden, together with the district of Aurich, by maintaining around-the-clock emergency care in Emden is building a new municipal clinic in the Georgsheil area? ”This was approved with around 54 percent approval. The construction of a central clinic is thus approved. The district of Aurich, like the majority of its citizens, still considers the Georgsheil Central Clinic to be the better solution. As of August 2017, the planning costs add up to 4.4 million euros.

planning

On November 1, 2019, both the new district administrator of the Aurich district, Olaf Meinen, and the new mayor of Emden, Tim Kruithoff, took office. Both chair the supervisory board of the joint sponsoring company ANEVITA and, like their predecessors, support the creation of a central clinic.

Following this circumstance and the positive referendum, this company is to operate and advertise the merger of the three clinics to form the central clinic. It started planning in coordination with the Lower Saxony Ministry of Health and acquired a 37-hectare area in Georgsheil east of Uthwerdumer Straße and north of Bundesstraße 72/210, which is called Auricher Straße here. In February 2020, the architectural services were advertised, for which thirty architecture firms across Europe applied. Sixteen of them were selected for the competition, which started in May. The completion of the planning is planned for the spring of 2022, the start of construction for 2023.

Individual evidence

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