City Hospital 19 (Rauchfusa) is the only multidisciplinary medical institution for minors located in the historical center of St. Petersburg. It provides professional medical assistance using modern methods of research and treatment of diseases in its work.
History of development
The highest permission of the Emperor to form the Prince Oldenburg Children's Hospital was published on September 30, 1864, on the 25th anniversary of the public service of His Imperial Highness at the Mariinsky Office. The laying of the clinic began exactly 3 years later - on September 30, 1867, and its lighting and opening on the same day in 1869. The Prince Oldenburgsky Children's Clinic was built taking into account all the scientific discoveries and achievements of that time. The principle of operation and equipment of the institution was significantly superior to the structure of all existing hospitals of this profile in Russia and Europe. The erection was carried out on charitable funds from the Office of the Empress Maria, as well as on personal transfers of the Prince of Oldenburg. The development of an effective device program belongs to a talented children's doctor - Karl Andreevich Rauchfus. The development plan was prepared by the academician of architecture Caesar Albertovich Kavos. In 1876, at the international exhibition held in Brussels, the Mariinsky Department was awarded an Honorary Diploma for recognizing the hospital as an exemplary indicator of a medical institution. In 1878, the Paris World Exhibition was held. The Prince Oldenburg Hospital was awarded the Big Gold Medal as the best children's clinic. In January 1919, the institution was renamed, he was given the name of the developer - K. A. Rauchfus. The hospital began to develop rapidly. To provide medical services to the largest number of patients, new departments began to open in 1925, and the number of beds increased. Already in the first year there were 425 of them, and after 15 years - 660. During this time, the Rauchfus Children's Hospital has expanded significantly. Specialized departments have opened. Some of them had no analogues in all of Russia. This, for example, an ENT department, a physiotherapy and neurology room.
War time
With the onset of World War II on the further development of the hospital. K. A. Rauchfus was out of the question. In 1941, 163 employees of the institution were mobilized into the ranks of the Red Army. During the war years, the clinic worked as a hospital for injured children. This included patients who were burned, wounded, and suffering from alimentary dystrophy. The hospital staff was forced to work in very difficult conditions. Depleted by hunger, employees carried water from the river in a sleigh, to disassemble the old houses, they had to put out high-explosive bombs on the roofs during the raids. People were dying of exhaustion right at their posts. In the period 1941-1942. from illnesses and hunger 63 employees of children's hospital died. But, despite all the hardships and horrors of the war, in 1942, for the little patients, they still arranged a New Year's holiday and put Christmas trees in their wards.
Post-war time
With the end of the war, the Rauchfus Hospital received a new impetus in development. Between 1945 and 2007, new branches were opened, many of them for the first time in St. Petersburg. Among them:
- in 1954 - septic for newborns;
- in 1957 - traumatological (in 1989 it was renamed neurosurgical);
- in 1958 - the service of maxillofacial surgery;
- in 1963 - cardiac rheumatology;
- in 1970 - anesthesiology and intensive care;
- in 1980 - surgical ophthalmology.
Modern history
In 2007, the hospital, which includes the Rauchfus hospital (institution address: Ligovsky Prospekt, 8), was closed for reconstruction. Since the foundation of the clinic, this was the first and only case when it did not function. To continue providing medical care to children, an outpatient advisory department was opened in the same year. Admission of patients to the hospital resumed in 2010. Its opening was a significant event in St. Petersburg, the city governor, V. I. Matvienko, attended the ceremony. The work of the department continues successfully today. June 1, 2012, on the International Children's Day, the icon of the Mother of God of Kazan was illuminated in the chapel at the Rauchfus clinic. The hospital this year, 2014, received its endocrinology center.
Clinic Advantages
- Good location. Rauchfus Children's Hospital is located in the historical center of St. Petersburg, not far from the Ploshchad Vosstaniya metro station .
- Diversified activities. Turning to the hospital at any time of the day or night, you can get qualified medical care in pediatrics, traumatology, maxillofacial surgery, endocrinology, general surgery, ophthalmology, neurosurgery, otorhinolaryngology, pulmonology.
- Hospital equipment Modern diagnostic equipment allows for the highest level of laboratory and clinical research. Due to this, less time is required for making the correct diagnosis and prescribing the optimal treatment.
- Qualification of personnel. Hospital them. Rauchfusa has a staff of competent specialists, doctors of the highest category, as well as candidates and doctors of medical sciences.
- Productive collaboration. The work established contacts with leading medical institutions both in St. Petersburg and in many other cities of Russia. Cooperation with the State Pediatric Medical Academy, departments of the North-Western Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov, and the Naval Academy named after S.M. Kirov has been established. This allows you to attract the faculty of these institutions to conduct the diagnostic process in cases of severe or rare diseases.
- Rauchfus Clinic is a hospital practicing consultations with the main specialists of St. Petersburg.
- The staff of the hospital includes highly professional specialists of almost all specialties.
VHI and paid services
Rauchfus Clinic is a hospital that is open for cooperation with insurance companies, regional health departments, charitable foundations and individuals from St. Petersburg or any other region of Russia, as well as near and far abroad. To provide services on a paid basis exclusively highly qualified specialists are involved. Various areas are included in the profile of the activities of the Rauchfus hospital. Reviews of many parents indicate the high quality of the services provided in the institution. Thanks to modern laboratory and diagnostic equipment, it is possible to conduct a full examination of the child in the shortest possible time. Here you can get advice or surgical treatment using modern medical technologies. In addition, the hospital offers medical examinations and examinations in all medical areas (for kindergartens, schools).
Branches
- Purulent maxillofacial surgery.
- Traumatology.
- Endocrinology.
- Ophthalmology.
- Neurosurgery.
- Surgery.
- Pulmonology.
- Insulation Diagnostics.
- Otorhinolaryngology.
- Physiotherapy.
- Resuscitation and anesthesiology.
- Endoscopy.
- Ultrasound examination.
- Functional diagnostics.
- Laboratory of histology and cytology.
- Reflexotherapy.
- Radiation diagnosis.
- Clinical diagnostic laboratory.
- Center for Outpatient Surgery.
- Neuropediatrics.
- Day hospital.
- Emergency room.
- Outpatient Advisory Unit.
- Department of paid services.
Innovations
The Rauchfus clinic developed in a special way. The hospital is the first institution in all of Europe where:
- isolation of acutely infectious patients;
- division of the general hospital premises into departments according to the nature of the disease;
- a steam disinfection chamber for disinfecting linen and patient care items was built;
- strict hygiene rules for hospital staff have been introduced.
For the first time in Russia, K. A. Rauchfus:
- used anti-toxic serum for the treatment of diphtheria, and also developed indications and contraindications for its use;
- improved the endotracheal tube, used it in the treatment of diphtheria;
- performed the very first tracheotomy.
Chronology
The institution not only used various methods for the development of Rauchfus. The hospital was the first clinic where specialized departments were opened for the first time:
- In 1869 - the surgical service.
- In 1925 - ENT office, physiotherapy department. In the same year, Professor E.T. Zalkindson wrote a manual on pediatric physiotherapy.
- In 1926, the neurological service.
- In 1927 - a boxed unit for babies.
- In 1950 - the office of functional diagnostics in combination with an ECG.
- In 1956, the department of purulent-septic diseases in young children.
- In 1957, the trauma department.
- In 1979 - the department of planned maxillofacial and purulent surgery.
- In 1959 - the office of anesthesiology service.
- In 1967 - cardiorematological department.
- In 1970 - resuscitation.
- In 1973 - pulmonology department.
- In 1980 - the service of surgical ophthalmology.
- In 1983 - neurotraumatology department.
- In 1989 - neurosurgical service.