Inselspital

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The Inselspital, Bern University Hospital officially also (French: Hôpital de l' Ile or Hôpital universitaire de Berne ) called, is a major university hospital in Switzerland. It belongs to the University Hospital Foundation and is closely connected to a treaty with the Canton of Bern and its health. The island, as it is abbreviated called, works in teaching and research in close cooperation with the Medical Faculty of the University of Bern.

History

The origins of the Inselspital go to the Bernese councilor daughter Anna Seiler (cf. Anna -Seiler -Brunnen ), about 1350, founded after the plague on November 29, 1354 in her will a hospital for the free treatment and care with thirteen beds, the " should always and forever " endure.

1531 pulled the Seilerin Hospital in the building of the former Dominican monastery " St. Michael to the island " to which lay in the area of present-day eastern wing of the Bern Parliament House and had previously been under the patronage of the Archangel Michael on a now vanished island in the Aare - hence the name" Inselspital ".

After a fire in 1713, the hospital 1718-1724 was rebuilt under the direction of the Vorarlberg Baroque architect Franz Beer. It appeared to the contemporaries a " royal palace similar because a hospital ." From 1798 to 1809 served the occupying troops of Napoleon as a military hospital. Then it was back to the civilian population open and took over in 1841 the training of medical students.

From 1821 to 1833 Charles Howald served as preacher at the University Hospital, from 1850 onwards worked here as a physician Johann Rudolf Schneider, the political initiator of the Jura waters correction. 1884 opened with 340 beds at the current location of the Inselspital a new hospital, the old building in 1888 canceled due to enlargement of the Parliament Building. In Inselspital Emil Theodor Kocher, who was the first surgeon received the 1909 Nobel Prize for medicine was working.

Large parts of the end of the 19th century, erected buildings were demolished from 1958 to 1978 and replaced by the present building, whose most salient is the bed tower.

Presence

The island hospital employs 7'255 employees, including 1,173 physicians, (end of 2009) and in 2009 achieved operating income of 1.068 billion francs. More than 220,000 patients are treated each year. The academic instruction claim annually 600 medical students, other professional training 1,000 people, and hundreds of doctors visit training events.

Since July 2011, the island hospital has the Switzerland 's first civilian GPS approach procedures for helicopters. This allows Rega to fly to the island hospital in poor visibility.