(Rivista Internazionale - December 1995: The Order’s hospitals and structures for the elderly in Germany - 3/5)

Duisburg-Huckingen. «Malteser Krankenhaus St. Anna», with 385 beds, has departments of internal medicine, surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics, ear, nose and throat, radiology and anaesthesia. It is situated in Rhine-Westphalia.

«Malteser Krankenhaus St. Benno Bautzen», Bautzen
The Order of Malta's St. Benno Bautzen's Hospital in Bautzen
Management assumed by the Order: 1992;
Staff: 96 employed in various services;
Number of patients a year: average 1,700 in-patients;
Days of treatment a year: 20,400;
Average length of stay: 12.07 days;
Number of beds: 75;
Departments: only clinical surgery.

«Malteser Altenpflegheim St. Hedwig Bautzen», Bautzen
The Order of Malta's St. Hedwig Bautzen Nursing Home for the Elderly in Bautzen
Management assumed by the Order: 1.1.1993;
Staff: about 45 employed in various services;
Accommodation available: currently 106 places;
Future activities: construction of a new nursing home with 100 places, ready by February 1996;
Construction of 20 apartments adapted to elderly people.

Bonn. «Malteser Krankenhaus Bonn-Hardtberg», with its 431 beds, is the Order's largest hospital structure in Germany. It has numerous departments, including those for gastroenterology, gynaecology, surgery, urology and intensive care. It has a nurses' school attached and a geriatric day-hospital.

«Malteser Krankenhaus Bonn-Hardtberg», Bonn
The Order's Bonn-Hardtberg Hospital , in Bonn Management assumed by the Order: 1973;
Staff: around 720 employed in various services;
Number of patients a year: around 10,900;
Days of treatment a year: 123,700;
Average length of stay: 11.42 days;
Number of beds: 431;
Main Departments: Internal medicine (especially gastroenterology), Surgery, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Surgery of the Hand and Plastic Surgery, Urology, Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Palliative Medicine, Radiology, Ear, Nose and Throat, Geriatric Medicine with Day-hospital;
Other activities: a nurses' school and kindergarten are attached to the hospital. Hospital spiritual assistance with a training centre.

«Malteser Altenkrankenheim St. Marien», Drensteinfurt
The Order of Malta's St. Marien Nursing Home for the Elderly in Drensteinfurt
Management assumed by the Order: 1985;
Staff: about 50 employed in various services;
Accommodation available: currently 63 beds attached to the Order's St. Josef hospital in Hamm;
Future activities: 4 extra places are planned for short-term treatment and 4 day-hospital places.

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