User:Dozerod/University Hospital of Düsseldorf

On July 27, 1907, the general municipal hospitals and subsequently the Düsseldorf Academy for Practical Medicine were officially opened. Oskar Witzel was appointed director. On the site were the clinics for surgery, internal medicine pediatrics, with Arthur Schloßmann as head physician, gynecology and obstetrics with Hugo Sellheim as head physician, infectious diseases with an attached institute for experimental therapy, skin and venereal diseases, ear, nose and throat medicine, ophthalmology and pathology under the direction of Lubarsch. The psychiatric ward was located in the Rhenish Provincial and Nursing Home in Grafenberg.

After the Second World War, the clinic and the academy gained a worldwide reputation in heart research, especially when in 1952 the heart surgeon and head of the surgical clinic from 1946 to 1969, Ernst Derra, performed the first open heart operation using a heart-lung machine. In 1958, the new surgical clinic building, at that time one of the most modern clinic buildings in the world, was opened.

After the medical academy was merged into the newly founded University of Düsseldorf in 1965, on January 1, 1973, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia also took over ownership of the hospitals, which were renamed the Düsseldorf University Hospital at that time. The University of Düsseldorf has now moved into the first new buildings on the campus south of the clinic site. From 1973 onward, the pre-clinic and other medical institutes were also located here. The facilities, which were primarily used for clinical care and research, remained on the hospital grounds.

A comprehensive modernization of the clinics began in 1985 with the opening of the newly built Medical-Neurological-Radiological Clinic (MNR Clinic), which also includes the clinic's tallest building. This was followed by the construction of a new center for child and adolescent medicine on and around the site of the old children's clinic. The modernization process included the new data center at the site of the old boiler house.

The German Cancer Aid included the university hospital in its list of top oncology centers for the first time in 2013. This is associated with funding from the University Tumor Center Düsseldorf (UTZ) totaling three million euros for three years.

After a long construction period, the Center for Operative Medicine II was opened in June 2014 as the new center of the clinic. The clinics for ENT, neurosurgery, maxillofacial and facial plastic surgery, accident and hand surgery and orthopedics were integrated into it. It includes operating rooms, hospital wards including an intensive care unit and the new central emergency room with shock rooms and a helicopter roof landing pad. The opening was originally planned for 2009, but commissioning was not possible due to problems with fire protection. The media called the facility a “ghost clinic.” Legal disputes have been announced regarding the executing company Imtech.

In September 2020, the university clinic was attacked by hackers; As a result, the clinic's computer and IT system failed. After the attack, the emergency room was forced to close and an emergency patient who had to be diverted to another hospital died. The North Rhine-Westphalia Cybercrime Central and Contact Office took over the investigation.

As part of the “Giga for Health” innovation project, Düsseldorf University Hospital will become the first 5G medical campus in Europe

Criticism
In 2018, the clinic was criticized by WDR for not paying enough attention to hygiene and transferring patients from the intensive care unit to normal wards too early. This had led to some deaths.

Ranking
The Gastroenterology Clinic is ranked among the best 17 clinics in the world by Newsweek magazine.

Location
The fenced-in 40-hectare site is located in the southeast of the Düsseldorf district of Bilk. The northern border is formed by Moorenstrasse and Witzelstrasse. Himmelgeister Straße is to the west and Christophstraße to the east of the site. To the south is the campus of the Heinrich Heine University - separated from the clinic site by the A 46, which runs here in the university tunnel, and a green corridor with footpaths and cycle paths above the tunnel.

Areas and Buildings
All buildings, some of which are listed buildings, have the postal address Moorenstraße 5, 40225 Düsseldorf. To locate the locations more precisely, a key made up of four two-digit numbers separated by dots is used, as on the university's neighboring campus. The left and first number determines the area, the second number the building, the third number the floor and the last number the room number on the relevant floor. All area numbers on the hospital premises begin with 1. The following table provides an overview of the areas and buildings.

Weblinks

 * Website Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf
 * UDK Karte Anfahrtpläne mit Gebäude-Nummern (PDF), Stand Februar 2016
 * Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Plan (PDF), Stand 2014
 * Zeitungsartikel: Die Allgemeinen Krankenanstalten zu Düsseldorf I., in Rhein und Düssel (Nr. 30), Illustrierte Sonntagsbeilage zu den Düsseldorfer Neuen Nachrichten, vom 28. Juli 1907
 * Zeitungsartikel: Die Allgemeinen Krankenanstalten zu Düsseldorf II., in Rhein und Düssel (Nr. 31), Illustrierte Sonntagsbeilage zu den Düsseldorfer Neuen Nachrichten, vom 4. August 1907
 * Zeitungsartikel: Die Allgemeinen Krankenanstalten zu Düsseldorf II., in Rhein und Düssel (Nr. 31), Illustrierte Sonntagsbeilage zu den Düsseldorfer Neuen Nachrichten, vom 4. August 1907