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Wien, 9. Bezirk, AKH Wien, Vienna General Hospital, Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien, Hospital General de Viena, Hôpital Général de Vienne, Ospedale Generale di Vienna - (Spitalgasse/Lazarettgasse)

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New AKH

Model of the AKH

General Hospital main entrance

Over time, the Josephinischen buildings of General Hospital became unzweckgemäß (purposeless), so that has been decided in 1957 to build a new large central clinic.

(Josephinian style, the Josephinian style, also Josephinian Baroque or Josephinian Classicism denominated, is a stylistic direction of the Austrian art, of arts and crafts, interior design and architecture of the Josephinism in the Habsburg Empire under Emperor Joseph II in the 18th Century.)

Construction of the new AKH in Alsergrund was began in the summer of 1964 with the nursing school, including boarding and personnel dormitories (3 "sister towers") at Lazarettgasse 14. From the year 1968 followed the second phase of construction with the university hospitals for Pediatrics, Psychiatry, University Clinic for Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Depth Psychology and Psychotherapy, and a day care center for children at the Gürtel ("clinics at South Garden"). These were opened in 1974 and 1975. The planning behoved an architectural partnership, which included Wolfgang Bauer, Georg Köhler, Felix Kässens, Hannes Lintl, Georg Lippert, Alexander Marchart, Roland Moebius, Otto Mayr and Otto Nobis. 1970 was started at the Gürtel (belt) with the underground garage and 1974 with the located behind main house. This consists of the ambulance and surgical area (51 ORs) and two large, a total of 22 floors high bed towers, which accommodate 2,199 beds.

The AKH is connected with its own metro station Michelbeuern/AKH to the public transport network. The central building with the bed towers was officially opened in 1994, but already (partially) used since 1991. Total construction costs were at about 45 billion shillings (now approximately 3.3 billion euros) estimated in 2004 - originally projected were 1 billion shillings (around 73 million euros). The construction costs were funded jointly by the City of Vienna and the federal government. The cost explosion and an associated bribery scandal in the construction of the new AKH General Hospital led to the AKH-scandal, the up to the present biggest Austrian building scandal. Did one speak earlier of "the General", so with the construction slowly began the term "General Hospital" to spread, primarily for new buildings, and became mainly from the AKH scandal in 1980 more and more the dominant term.

At present (2011) are approximately 9,300 persons employed at the General Hospital, of which about 1,600 physicians and more than 4,500 health and nursing staff. Annually, almost 99,000 patients are inpatients and half a million patients are treated in the 397 clinics. About 7,500 students are enrolled at the Medical University of Vienna.

On 19 July 2003 was transplanted from a team of doctors of the hospital world-wide for the first time a human tongue.

School

To prevent stationary admitted children of school age with prolonged hospital stay miss too much class time, there is a branch of the AKH Vienna sanatorium school.

Pastoral Care

For the religious and spiritual needs of our patients a variety of facilities are available. Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant (AB and HB) Christians get together with Muslims and Jews spiritual care.

As the old AKH is no longer used as a hospital, there is for the sick ones of Jewish faith a prayer room in level 5 between the two towers of the new building, in charge of this is the Chief Rabbinate of the Jewish Community Vienna.

Orientation

The main entrance to the General Hospital leads through the entrance and administration building and is located on Level 5. Basis of the orientations is a color system the main corridor system being highlighted in blue. The main corridors thereby run here in east-west direction and are arranged as a so-called H-corridor system. The destinations (medical departments) are highlighted in orange and yellow doors mark the way to the escape stairs. In addition exist for the two bed-houses own colors. The easterly situated bed house including the elevator doors of the corresponding lifts is red, the westerly bed house marked green. The individual floors are referred to as "plane".

Facts and Figures

As of 2008

Buildings and facilities

Land area: 240,000 m²

Usable area 337 696 m²

Value of land and buildings: 1.825 billion Euro

Value of technical equipment: 43 million euros

Amount of operating and office equipment: 32 million euros

Departments and wards

27 clinics

10 university institutes

62 ambulances

330 specialist outpatient clinics

82 nursing stations

21 ICUs

51 operating theaters

Rooms and Beds

As of 2011

2,116 beds in total, of it

1,713 single beds

137 intensive care beds

137 intermediate care beds

129 day-care treatment beds

(maximum of 30 beds per ward and a maximum of 3 beds per room)

Personnel

Total staff about 9,300 people, of which

approximately 1,600 physicians

approximately 2,900 nurses

Costs and service revenues

As of 2005

Service revenues (social insurance): 365 million euros

Grants from the City of Vienna: 124 million euros

Grants from the Federal government: 47 million euros

Material costs: 164 million euros

Staff costs: 266 million euros

Loss for the year: 11 million euros

Net loss: 31 million euros

Statistics

As of 2005

494 758 outpatient cases

94 403 Stationary admissions

Average length of stay: 5.9 days

46 466 operations

2,393 births

1,403 deceased patients

1,521 autopsies

Teaching and Research

1 Big auditorium with 507 seats

2 Großhörsäle (big auditoriums), each with 287 seats

2 lecture halls, each with 147 seats

40 individual workstations

26 group study rooms

14 practice rooms

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