University Hospital of Zürich

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The University Hospital Zurich (USZ ) is one of the largest hospitals in Switzerland and brings together 40 clinics and institutes under one roof. As a University Hospital is affiliated with the University of Zurich and combines the treatment of some 150,000 patients per year in research and teaching. Overall, the USZ employs 6,200 employees ( including 36 % foreign professionals ). The University Hospital is located in the heart of Zurich opposite the buildings of the ETH and University of Zurich.

Contract and medical services

As a central hospital with a contract of the Canton of Zurich, which in the Law on the University Hospital Zurich ( USZG ) set includes the services offered in addition to the basic services for the population of the Canton of Zurich, the nationwide medical care, support for research and teaching universities, and the promotion of education, training and continuing education in the health professions.

Primary health care and cutting-edge medicine

For primary care, the basic service of all medical services include under one roof, which is available in the year, 24 hours a day for 365 days. These include not only the emergency room, MRI and X-ray stations, emergency operating rooms, which are located right next to the emergency room, six intensive care units with the appropriate physicians, nurses and other medical professionals. The University Hospital Zurich is first point of contact for complex and serious cases of illness or accidents. Treatments include all the medical specialties of cardiac surgery on the immunology to transplantation medicine, from obstetrics to clinical pharmacology to the treatment of burn injuries. In the area of ​​highly specialized medicine, the University Hospital invests in various fields. It is supported by the Government of the Canton Zurich with the overall strategy Highly specialized medicine in the implementation of ten specific projects with an investment of CHF 30 million. These include a GMP laboratory for ordinary and Effektorzellpräparaten and tissue engineering, a Center for Regenerative Medicine, the project Blood Management, the project hybrid imaging with molecular and morphological methods and the widespread promotion of clinical research through the Clinical Trials Center at the Center for Clinical Research.

Research and teaching

The intensive research and teaching at the University Hospital Zurich is renowned internationally and contributes significantly to the modern medicine. Researchers such as Åke Senning, the father of modern heart surgery, Andreas Grüntzig, the pioneers of interventional cardiology and the immunologist and Nobel laureate Rolf Zinkernagel have written the history of medicine at the University Hospital Zurich. University Medicine requires an intense research activity. The geographical proximity to the university and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ( ETH ) on the opposite side of the street allows for a close interdisciplinary cooperation, not only within the hospital but on the whole high school zone.

The hospital organization

The University Hospital Zurich has become independent since 2007 and an institution under public cantonal law with its own legal personality. The hospital was reorganized on 1 January 2010 and is now medical areas and a Centre for Clinical Research divided into nine, which belong to all 40 clinics and institutes. The supreme organ of the USZ strategic forms of Spitalrat, which consists of nine external members. The operational management body is the hospital management, which is composed of the Chairman of the areas doctors, care, research and teaching, finance, operations and ICT. The necessary administrative and infrastructure areas are divided into four support areas: These are operations, finance, ICT and HRM.

The Medical Professionals and their clinics and institutes

Neuro - Head: The clinics in this area deal with the diagnostic and therapeutic interventions of the various anatomical regions of the head. In the clinics, this medical area more than 6,000 in-patients are treated and performed more than 60,000 outpatient consultations per year.

  • Eye Clinic
  • Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
  • Neurosurgery
  • Neurology
  • Neuroradiology
  • Ears, nose, throat and facial surgery
  • Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Internal Medicine - Oncology: The field of medicine focuses its diagnostic and therapeutic activities to treatment of patients with complex, often ambiguous symptoms and oncological diseases. The medical field, servicing around 4,000 inpatient and 40,000 outpatient patients.

  • Hematology
  • Family Medicine
  • Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology
  • Internal medicine
  • Naturopathy
  • Oncology
  • Radiation Oncology
  • Immunology
  • Nuclear Medicine

Heart - Vascular - Thoracic: The hospitals of this area specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the heart, blood vessels and lungs. In the clinics, this medical area are annually more than 3,500 inpatients cared for and performed on the 20,000 outpatient consultations.

  • Angiology
  • Heart and Vascular Surgery
  • Cardiology
  • Pneumology
  • Thoracic Surgery

Woman - child: the clinics of the medical area wife and child are specializing in the care of patients with specific diseases of women, respectively, on pregnancy and birth, or devote themselves to couples who are faced with the problem of infertility. In the clinics, this medical area approximately 6,000 inpatients and children are cared for annually and more than 30,000 outpatient consultations performed.

  • Obstetrics
  • Gynecology
  • Neonatology
  • Reproductive Endocrinology

Trauma - Derma - rheumatism - Plastic Surgery: This medicine division specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of skin and rheumatic diseases as well as to the care of patients with serious injuries. In the clinics, this medical area more than 6,000 operations and more than 100,000 emergency interventions and consultations are performed annually.

  • Dermatology
  • Plastic and Hand Surgery
  • Rheumatology Clinic
  • Traumatology
  • Physiotherapy Occupational Therapy

Abdomen - Metabolism: These clinics focus on diagnostic and therapeutic measures for organs of the digestive tract and on the treatment of liver, biliary tract, kidney and urinary tract diseases. In the clinics, this medical area more than 4,500 inpatients annually and serves approximately 30,000 outpatient consultations performed.

  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Clinical Nutrition
  • Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
  • Nephrology
  • Urology
  • Visceral and Transplantation Surgery

Anesthesiology - Critical Care - Surgical Management: This medical field is the classical service area, as it is essential in a central hospital with a strong focus on the surgical treatment ( anesthesiology and surgical management) and care of critically ill patients ( intensive care medicine ). A total of about 16,000 operations are performed at the University Hospital Zurich per year and more than 4,000 patients cared for at the various intensive care units.

  • Anesthesiology
  • Intensive Care Medicine
  • Surgical Management

Imaging techniques: This medicine area includes the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and all clinics whose principal activity is characterized on the use of radiotherapy and the use of imaging technologies. The range of services of all units this medical area behind all other clinics and institutes of the University Hospital Zurich.

  • Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Neuroradiology
  • Radiation Oncology

Diagnosis: The field of medicine diagnostics summarizes all those hospitals and institutions whose main activity is the laboratory diagnosis and analysis of the various clinical pictures. Facilities located within this medical area activities are characterized by a high proportion of research.

  • Immunology
  • Clinical Chemistry
  • Clinical pathology
  • Neuropathology
  • Hematology

Centre for Clinical Research: The Center for Clinical Research is an operationally independent unit and is the tenth division of the University Hospital Zurich. The center will support the basic science and patient-oriented clinical research - this primarily at the University Hospital Zurich. The research center conducts to a Clinical Trials Centre, a Biological Central Laboratory and the Center for Regenerative Medicine. It coordinates its activities with the other four Zürich university clinics and institutes of the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich. The Center for Clinical Research enables the efficient and safe translation of research findings into the clinic ( bench -to- bedside ).

  • Biological Central Laboratory
  • Clinical Trials Center
  • Regenerative Medicine

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

The Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy dates back to the 1911, introduced at the Psychiatric University Clinic Burgholzli under Eugen Bleuler outpatient consultation. In 1913 she received the Department of Psychiatry in the house Belmont, Raemistrasse 67, a domicile. The first conductor was simultaneously working as a senior physicians at Burgholzli. In 1923, the clinic into the house to Lindenegg, Lower fences 2, 1954, she was transferred to the Pavilion II on the site of the Cantonal Hospital at the Gloriastrasse 23.

Following the resignation of Manfred Bleuler as director of the Psychiatric University Hospital in 1969, the Department of Psychiatry at the Association of Hospitals of the Canton Hospital was integrated. With the opening of psychotherapy station at the Pestalozzi Strasse 10 /12 inpatient psychotherapeutic treatment was expanded from 1973. A focus was the treatment of patients with eating disorders. At the same time an emergency psychiatric service for the hospitals of the Canton Hospital was established. 1980, a Department of Psychosocial Medicine (PSM ) was founded in the Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic, which was from 2004 to 2010 reports directly to the University Hospital. In 1985 the company moved all departments in a building at the Culmannstrasse 8, 2003, in cooperation with the Swiss Red Cross, the Outpatient Clinic for Victims of Torture and War ( AFK ) opened, but reports directly to the University Hospital since 2009. On 1 May 2010, the Department of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy has been renamed.

Today there are three departments: the outpatient clinic, the Center for Eating Disorders and the Konsiliarpsychiatrie.

History

Already in 1204 the present hospital was donated by Duke Berthold V. Zähringerplatz ( Zahringen ) in Zurich. 100 years later, out of the hospice, the first citizen of the city hospital. The hospital was on the clamping grazing refuge for sick and at the same time Benefice. In the 16th century, the hospice converted to a cure and treatment institute. The hospital stay was still free, and only the wealthy and foreigners had to pay a small tax. 1836 the hospital was canceled at the clamping pasture in his capacity as a hospital and moved to the Zähringerplatz. The original buildings were initially used old equipment and later sold. 1833, the University of Zurich was founded with a medical school. About ten years later the company moved from the hospital Zähringerplatz in the built from 1835-1842 by Gustav Albert Wegmann hospital was at its present location on Zurich mountain. The main part of this old building was demolished, however, been preserved is only the anatomy tract, now used as a training room. The anatomy and the North East, the secretion house (toward the Semper Observatory ) were not associated hygienic reasons with the main building of the hospital. Since it was the spread of infections in an emergency stop is difficult in the 19th century, hospitals were often built on the pavilion system with many small buildings, or at least with a separate building, were in the patient isolated with infectious diseases such as typhoid, cholera and diphtheria. So could the spread of these diseases be prevented in the entire hospital, at worst, the patient of a pavilion or the secretion building died.

The present main building of the University Hospital directly opposite the ETH was designed by architects Haefeli Moser Steiger and was built from 1941 to 1953. In 1978 the University Hospital of Zurich with the Bettenhochhaus North 1 is a high-rise complex with 17 floors Women's Hospital Street, which was from 1988 to 1992 supplemented by the North 2 buildings. Today, the hospital consists mainly of these two large building complexes ( Haefeli Moser Steiger construction, Nord1/Nord2 ) and various individual buildings. Because of their height particularly striking are the Bettenhochhaus and the staff skyscraper.

By 1977, the University Hospital Kantonsspital was called.

Church of the University Hospital Zurich

The church of the University Hospital Zurich is at the Raemistrasse 100 in a connecting building. It was built in the years 1986-1988 the building of the connecting tract.

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