Hospital of the Merciful Brothers Vienna (2024)

The Hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder Wien is the largest and oldest religious hospital in Vienna . The specialty hospital run by the Vienna Convention of the Brothers of Mercy has more than 400 beds. In 2018, around 32,000 inpatients were cared for and help was provided in around 140,000 outpatient cases. The hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder Wien is the teaching hospital of the Medical University of Vienna , the Sigmund Freud Private University and nursing science training hospital of the UMIT (Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology GmbH) in Hall in Tyrol and the teaching hospital ofFH Campus Vienna . The hospital has had its own nursing academy since 1977. The hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder Wien is also known for the treatment of destitute and uninsured people. These services are financed by the five times a year fundraising, also called house collection. ^[1]

history

The monastery and hospital with 12 beds was founded in 1614 ^[2] by Brother Gabriel Ferrara OH, a highly respected surgeon from Milan . The reason for the appointment to Vienna was the positive experience of Prince Karl I von Liechtenstein in Rome with the hospital of the Brothers of Mercy on the Tiber Island . Nursing activities and social commitment saved the monastery of the Brothers of Mercy under Emperor Joseph II from being abolished in later years .

The extension built between 1883 and 1885 according to plans by Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer , Otto Hofer and Anton Schönmann by city architect Cajetan Miserovsky was already too small when it was completed, so another extension was built between 1903 and 1905. In the course of this work, the Brothers of Mercy Hospital also received an aseptic operating room, an X-ray machine, electrical lighting and central heating. In 1945 Mayor Theodor Körner was able to prevent the seizure by the Soviet occupiers.

In 1973 an extension was completed and further renovation work was completed in 1985 ^[3] . The next major expansion phase followed from 1994 to 2004. The main entrance is now at Johannes-von-Gott-Platz 1 and the new building runs along Schmelzgasse. In 1999 the first and so far only deaf outpatient clinic in Eastern Austria was opened in the hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder in Vienna. All employees of the deaf outpatient clinic communicate with the patients in Austrian sign language . A deaf social worker also works in the deaf outpatient clinic and, since February 2014, Austria's first deaf nurse who has been trained in the Nursing Academy of the Barmherzigen Brüder in Vienna.

In 2007, a dialysis station with ten treatment places was put into operation in the Leopoldstadt hospital . Two years later, another milestone in the history of the convent and the hospital followed: the opening of the Vienna dialysis center. This is a collaborative project between the Vienna Hospital Association (KAV), the Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund (WGKK) and the Convent of the Brothers of Mercy. The Vienna Dialysis Center is Europe's most modern and largest dialysis center with 72 beds and dialysis machines and offers 3-cycle capacity for around 430 patients. ^[4] In 2008, Johannes-von-Gott-Platz was opened in Leopoldstadt near the hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder in Viennanamed after the founder of the order.

In 2011 the ophthalmic day clinic with 11 day clinic beds, in which mainly cataract operations (cataracts) are performed, was put into operation. Since August of the same year, the Barmherzigen Brüder Hospital has been using the Da Vinci operating system, one of the most modern devices in robot-assisted surgery. Since May 2012 one of the most modern magnetic resonance tomographs (MRT), a 1.5T Philips Ingenia with Sonalleve, has been in use in the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine in the Hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder . The hybrid device, which is unique in Austria, combines two completely different techniques: magnetic resonance tomography and highly intensive focused ultrasound therapy (HIFU).

In June 2012, renovation work on a former surgical ward in the old building was completed. The purpose of this renovation work was the spatial and infrastructural adaptation to the modern stroke center (including a stroke unit with 7 monitoring beds). The newly created stroke center offers 7 acute beds in the stroke unit and 16 beds in early rehabilitation (7 of which are monitoring beds for patients from the stroke unit, which are stable enough to start rehabilitation but still require monitoring ). Today this stroke center is an integral part of the Viennese emergency rescue service. For the bed control center of the Vienna Rescue Service(assigns the ambulance to their target hospitals based on free capacities) a fixed number of free beds is provided daily in the stroke unit, which the bed control center can then occupy itself. The stroke center is geared towards interdisciplinary work, so that not only care and medicine are the focus, but also physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists and other professional groups are involved in the daily work.

Since March 2017 there has been a cooperation between the Hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder Wien, the Vienna General Hospital and the KAV- Rudolfstiftung in the acute treatment of severe strokes using endovascular therapy.

As the first hospital in Austria, the hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder Wien has been using two Da Vinci operating systems since the beginning of July 2017 . These are used for urological, gynecological and surgical interventions.

In order to be able to focus even more than before in the field of internal medicine, the previous internal department was divided into two departments as of February 2018 - see the following list under departments:

Initial and continuing education

The hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder Wien is the teaching hospital of the Medical University of Vienna and the teaching hospital of the Sigmund Freud Private University . Furthermore, the hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder Wien is the nursing science training hospital of the UMIT (Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology GmbH) and the teaching hospital of the FH Campus Wien .

Brothers of Mercy Nursing Academy

The Nursing Academy of the Brothers of Mercy was founded in 1977 and is attached to the Brothers of Mercy hospital in the second district of Vienna. The offer includes training for high-level service in general health and nursing in combination with the bachelor's degree in nursing science (duration: 7 semesters) as well as the bachelor's degree in health and nursing (duration: 6 semesters) in cooperation with the FH Campus Wien . In addition, training courses for specializing in nursing, such as intensive care, and advanced training for special areas such as stroke wards or practical instructions are offered.

Departments

• Anaesthesiology, intensive care medicine and pain therapy
• Ophthalmology
• Surgery
• gynecology
• HNO & Phoniatrie
• Internal Medicine I, Department of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Nephrology
• Internal Medicine II, Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology and Internal Oncology
• Neurology, stroke unit with neurological early rehabilitation and acute geriatrics
• Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
• Urology and andrology

particularities

• Outpatient clinic for the deaf
• Dialysis ward with 10 places since March 2007 ^[5]
• For prisoners who need hospital treatment, there has been a department with eight beds attached to the Vienna Josefstadt Prison since 1999 .
• Institute for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Labor
• Dental clinic
• Outpatient clinic for multiple and severely disabled patients

Spitalskapelle hl. Family

The chapel as a barrel-vaulted room with an apse on the 2nd floor in Grosse Mohrengasse with an organ gallery has a glass window St. John of God heals the sick , above a stained glass window St. Family , restored in 1949 from the Geyling stained glass workshop . On the left side wall is a wall painting for the laying of the foundation stone in 1914 with an allegory of the healing of the sick by T. Hafner from 1963. Franz Strommer's organ probably dates from 1884. ^[6]

See also

• Merciful Brothers of St. John of God

Weblinks

• Website Hospital of the Brothers of Mercy Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release Barmherzige Brüder Wien start traditional “house collection”, APA OTS, January 18, 2018, [1]
2. ↑ District Museum Leopoldstadt Luise Bäumenberger and Gertraud Rothlauf: 400 Years of Barmherzige Brüder in Vienna City Hall correspondence , May 6, 2014
3. ↑ Czeike: "Historical Lexicon of the City of Vienna"
4. ↑ Dialysis Center Vienna-Donaustadt celebrates its 5th anniversary. APA-OTS mailing from Wiener Dialysezentrum GmbH, October 23, 2014, accessed on October 20, 2017 .
5. ↑ Weblink: http://www.wien.gv.at/vtx/vtx-rk-xlink?SEITE=%2F2007%2F0424%2F017.html
6. ^ Dehio Vienna, District II, Kirchen, page 7

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 55 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 54 ″ E