Knappschaft Clinic Dortmund

Located in the Ruhr region (German: Ruhrgebiet ), the Knappschaft clinic was originally created to provide medical services to local miners. Planning for the construction of the hospital dates back to the time of World War I, when in 1913 the Union of Miners decided to begin construction of ten hospitals with a total capacity of 300 people, one of which was to be located in Dortmund. But the First World War , as, subsequently, and the Second prevented the implementation of the project. And only in 1949, when the Insurance Fund of the Union of Miners ( German Knappschaft Krankenkasse ^[1] ) started the capital construction of a hospital in the Dortmund – Brakel part, the idea was renewed. At the beginning of 1955 the first building was ready, and already on July 11, 1958 the clinic was opened.

On April 1, 2010, the Knappschaft Clinic Dortmund merged with the Clinic at the Park in Lünen-Brambauer into the Clinic Westfalen ^[2] . On January 1, 2013, the Helmig Clinic ( German Hellmig-Krankenhaus Kamen ) in the city of Kamen joined the union.

The medical services of the Knappshaft Dortmund Clinic are provided in 13 specialized departments and 10 centers. Among them:

• Anesthesiology and Resuscitation
• Surgery
• Gynecology and obstetrics
• Medical Clinic I - Gastroenterology, Endoscopy, Diabetology
• Medical Clinic II - Pulmonology, Intensive Medicine and Somnology
• Medical Clinic III - Cardiology
• Neurology
• Orthopedics
• X-ray and radiological diagnostics
• Radio Oncology and Radiation Therapy
• Thoracic (Thoracic) Surgery
• Urology and Pediatric Urology ^[3]

Along with the mandatory KTQ certification for all clinics in Germany, the Dortmund Academic Center undergoes voluntary certification to confirm the quality of medical care. The clinic is certified:

• Bowel Cancer Center (the fourth center in Germany, certified in accordance with the requirements of the German Cancer Society)
• Center for Prostate Cancer (the eighth center in Germany, certified in accordance with the requirements of the German Cancer Society) ^[4]
• Breast Cancer Center (certification in accordance with the standards of the German Cancer Society in July 2009)
• Lung Cancer Center (certified in accordance with the standards of the German Cancer Society in July 2010)
• Dortmund-Ost Diabetes Center (certification of the “Cooperation of Transparency and Quality in Health Care" ^[5] )
• Endoprosthetics Center (certification with the world's first certification system in endoprosthetics “endoCERT” ^[6] )

1. www.kk-dortmund.de
2. www.klinikum-westfallen.de (inaccessible link)