Pokrovskaya Hospital is a multidisciplinary budget clinic in St. Petersburg, located on Vasilievsky Island. The medical institution provides services in the outpatient diagnostic clinic, hospital and diagnostic center. On the basis of the clinic there are specialized centers for the provision of qualified assistance to the population.
History
Pokrovskaya Hospital was founded by the Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna, nee Oldenburg. In 1858, on the Smolensk field of Vasilyevsky Island, the Intercession Community of Sisters of Mercy opened. The main concern of the participants was an orphanage for 65 children, which was attended by five sisters, a boss and several subjects who were preparing to devote themselves to nursing.
Periodically, children and adults were sick, and they had to be sent to city clinics for treatment, the desire to restore health in their native walls became an incentive for the emergence of a hospital. Pokrovskaya hospital opened in November 1859. It was quickly completed, in the same year the reception ward building grew , where the first patients appeared on December 15.
The clinic was constantly expanding, the number of beds, medical areas and the services provided increased. During World War I, 45 sisters of mercy recovered to the front. After the revolution, the hospital and the community came under the control of the International Red Cross Society.
Soviet period
The reorganization of the clinic began in the 20s. Departments were reopened at the hospital, but now the clinic was called the Havana Public Hospital. In 1926, a modernized hospital building with a capacity for 110 people was opened. By the beginning of the 30s, the number of beds increased to 600. During the Great Patriotic War, the Pokrovskaya hospital experienced a blockade along with all residents of Leningrad, rendering all possible assistance to the blockade and wounded front-line soldiers.
In the postwar period, the City Intercession Hospital successfully increased the level of medical care, introduced new methods of treatment and diagnosis. The clinic was the first in Russia to open a heart attack unit, it happened in 1964. Ten years later, a new cardiology building was put into operation, which housed two heart attack wards, intensive care and resuscitation wards, cardiology wards, laboratory and diagnostic services.
In subsequent years, the Pokrovskaya hospital became the center for the treatment and study of many diseases, so in 1978 the City Antiarrhythmic Center was opened, in 1988 the cardiac surgery department was opened. In the early 2000s, the hospital equipped the otolaryngological department, commissioned a new diagnostic ultrasound complex, an electrophysiological laboratory, an x-ray laboratory, and much more. In the future, the hospital constantly updated the technical base, expanded the list of services and capabilities of the clinic.
Description
Pokrovskaya Hospital (St. Petersburg) is one of the largest medical institutions in the city. The clinic provides services in 35 medical areas. It includes several specialized centers, namely:
- Cardiology Service.
- Surgical service.
- Large department of traumatology and orthopedics.
- Center for Otolaryngology.
- Neurological service.
- Diagnostic complex.
- Outpatient Advisory Unit.
- Multidisciplinary hospital.
Pokrovskaya Hospital receives patients by specialized specialists for diagnosis, consultation and treatment. Reception is conducted in the following areas:
- Ophthalmology, urology.
- Dermatology, endocrinology.
- Colonoproctology, gynecology.
- Psychotherapy, rehabilitation.
- Gastroenterology, acupuncture.
- Dentistry, surgery (including plastic, cardiac surgery), etc.
The advisory department has a day hospital where patients are treated in an outpatient setting under medical supervision. The clinic (location - Vasilievsky Island) provides a full range of services under the compulsory medical insurance and health insurance programs.
Diagnostics
Pokrovskaya Hospital on Vasilyevsky Island is a large diagnostic center, with modern equipment and technical capabilities to do all the necessary research in full with high accuracy and in a short time. The diagnostic center consists of departments:
- Laboratory of clinical diagnostic studies.
- Department of functional diagnostics, radiography.
- Radiation research methods (MRI, CT, ultrasound, etc.).
- Research and treatment by radiography.
- Endoscopy, echocardiography, cardiomonitoring and much more.
The diagnostic department accepts applications from other hospitals in the city and patients with referrals from medical institutions for research and analysis.
Reception at the outpatient department
The compulsory medical insurance department serves residents of St. Petersburg. Priority is given to citizens living in the Vasileostrovsky, Petrograd, Primorsky districts of the city. Patients are only served by appointment by telephone. You can make an appointment in the functional diagnostics department (1st floor, room No. 105, time - from 09:00 to 16:30).
When visiting a doctor on the appointed day of admission, the patient should have the documents with him:
- Direction from the district clinic.
- Passport and its photocopy.
- The original and a photocopy of the MHI policy.
- An extract from the outpatient card indicating the diagnosis, research history, transferred types of surgical interventions, etc.
- The results of all previous analyzes, studies, etc.
Hospitalization
Pokrovskaya Hospital is hospitalizing via emergency channels and planned areas. Service in the inpatient department is provided under the policies of compulsory medical insurance, voluntary medical insurance or on a commercial basis. Emergency hospitalization in the clinic is carried out according to the following profiles:
- Cardiology, otolaryngology.
- Neurology, cardiac surgery, urology.
- Orthopedics and traumatology, surgery.
Planned hospitalization for a hospital on Vasilievsky Island for residents of St. Petersburg is carried out according to a doctor’s appointment and according to an appointment. Detailed information about the rules of hospitalization, the status of the queue and your position in it can be found by phone.
On the day of hospitalization, the patient is in the admission department with the documents:
- Passport, compulsory medical insurance policy.
- The direction of the clinic.
- Results of tests necessary for hospitalization.
Reviews
Pokrovskaya Hospital provided effective assistance to many patients. Reviews with positive reviews talk about quality treatment. Visitors to the outpatient diagnostic department indicate that they performed the diagnosis as soon as possible and quickly received a transcript with a subsequent accurate diagnosis. Hospitalized patients say thanks not only to doctors, but also to many nurses and staff for their attentive attitude and love for their work.
Negative reviews were expressed to the address of the help desk and the registry, which is difficult to reach. Patients also say that in some diagnostic departments there are long lines for procedures, some patients with acute pain had to sit for several hours before they received adequate care. Regardless of the positive or negative attitude towards the work of the hospital, patients are advised to first get acquainted with the reviews about the specialists who will have to turn to.
Useful information
Pokrovskaya Hospital is located in St. Petersburg at Vasilyevsky Island, Bolshoy Prospect, Building 85. Patients are received around the clock, seven days a week.
The nearest metro stations are Sportivnaya, Vasileostrovskaya, and Primorskaya. Patients of the Primorsky, Vasileostrovsky and Petrograd districts are served by the Pokrovskaya hospital on a priority basis. How to get there by public transport:
- Trolleybus route number 10 (to the stop "Pokrovskaya hospital").
- By buses of routes No. 128, 151 or 152 (to the stop "Pokrovskaya hospital").
- Minibuses No. 44, 690, K-273, 62, K-349, 154, etc. (to the stop "Pokrovskaya hospital").