Werner Wicker Klinik

Details

Name :

Werner Wicker Klinik

Address  :

Orthopedic Hospital of focus
Werner Wicker KG
Under cross-section 4
Reinhardshausen

Town  :

Bad Wildungen

State  :

Hessen

Country  :

GERMANY

Post Code:

34537

Phone  :

05 621 803 0

Fax  :

05621 803 208

Web URL  :

Specialization
  • Anaesthesiology
  • Neuro Surgeon
  • Neurologist
  • Urology
Facilities

Total Number Of Beds : 3500


Description

The Werner Wicker Clinic

The WernerWickerClinic was conceived in 1978 as a privately held orthopedic clinic for priority diseases around the spine and established In the Werner Wicker Clinic is a contract with the hospital admission according to sect 108 SGB V Paragraph 3 of the clinic fees are agreed in accordance with the legal setcare legislation with the relevant social service providers This fee agreement is approved by the competent national authority in the context of the Hospital Financing Act and the federal regulation and approved per diem and then accepted by all payers The following quality report is structured according to legal requirements or recommendations of the leading associations of hospitals and health insurance The Werner Wicker Clinic fulfills its legal obligation to disclose the essential structure process and outcome quality indicators


History

Clinic History

The foundation stone of the Werner Wicker Clinic in 1975 Completed the clinic in 1978 was officially inaugurated on 09 March 1979 She is involved in the Wicker Group of Companies whose foundation Wilhelm Werner Wicker in 1965 with the opening of the first clinic in Prince Frederick Street in Bad Wildungen presented At that time nobody suspected that reach dimensions of the family would once Wicker healthcare From a former sanatorium with 280 beds Wicker and 85 employees has developed a corporate group which now unites 11 rehabilitation hospitals and two acute care hospitals with approximately 3500 beds and 3500 employees under one roof

By working with national and international experts came to a clinic with a model The WernerWicker Hospital was the first hospital in Germany which was built directly for the treatment of paraplegic men and was considered one of the most modern facilities of its kind not only in Europe The sponsors and advisory professionals of the hospital was one in particular Sir Ludwig Guttmann head of the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury UK and a pioneer in the field of crosscutting treatment

From the beginning belonged to the German Scoliosis Center Department of Neurourology and intensive care wing Later the house was extended by the Department of Neurosurgery With the opening of the German Scoliosis Center has been modernized by then known treatment techniques of shape deviations and degenerative spinal disease and later developed groundbreaking new therapies

Today the Werner Wicker Clinic is nationally and internationally violations and a top address for the treatment of spinal disorders and their consequences She has a medically developed conceptual approach the base of the existing expertise of the centers for spinal cord injuries and spinal surgery the departments of Neurourology neurosurgery anesthesia and intensive care medicine Each year approximately 4100 patients from all over Germany the European but also nonEuropean countries admitted to hospital in the Werner Wicker Clinic With over 260 beds for the treatment of people with spinal cord injury spinal deformation or bladder dysfunction and neurosurgical patients it is one of the largest centers of its kind in Germany designed a privately held orthopedic focus Hospital for diseases around the spine
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