Börse Express – AUVA and Salzburger Landeskliniken cooperate to provide the best possible care for the people of Salzburg
Salzburg (OTS) – The General Accident Insurance Institution (AUVA) and the Salzburg State Clinics (SALK) will work together in the future in orthopedic and traumatological care. The cooperation combines specialist skills and unites the locations at the University Hospital Campus LKH.
“The care of patients at the highest level – this concern AUVA and SALK in the now established cooperation,” emphasized Salzburg’s health and hospital officer LH Deputy. Christian Stöckl and AUVA chairman Mario Watz signing the cooperation agreement in the field of orthopedics and traumatology.
Combined expertise under one roof
By the end of 2030 at the latest, a new hospital building, the so-called House B, is to be built on the University Hospital Campus LKH. The “Haus B establishment and rental company mbH” (House B-GmbH) was founded to construct the new supply building.
LH Deputy Christian Stöckl emphasizes the trend-setting character of the cooperation: “So far, this form of cooperation across the borders of the hospital authorities has only existed in Salzburg. This cooperation creates a completely new entity. As a mathematician, let me put it this way: in this case, one and one is significantly more than two.”
AUVA chairman Mario Watz emphasizes the positive effects of the cooperation: “The cooperation with the state of Salzburg and the Salzburg state clinics realizes economic and medical synergies in the care of patients. With the construction of the hospital building, we are creating a new, optimal setting for treatment at the highest level with efficient use of resources.”
200 beds, intensive care units and emergency room with shock rooms
The new care structure is called “Ortho Trauma Salzburg. University clinic run by AUVA and SALK”. It includes 200 inpatient beds, intensive care units, a day clinic area, an orthopedic-traumatological outpatient clinic and an emergency room with trauma rooms. The locations of the emergency doctor vehicles are also compiled.
“With the cooperation between the AUVA and the Salzburg state clinics, we are taking an important step towards ensuring the highest level of traumatological and orthopedic care for the people of Salzburg. The knowledge of our employees is thus combined and used optimally in terms of patient care,” explains AUVA Director General Alexander Bernart.
Lecturer Paul Sungler, Managing Director of the Salzburg State Clinics, emphasizes the long cooperation between the University Hospital Salzburg and the UKH Salzburg in the Salzburg Trauma Network: “We are now combining the highest level of expertise in trauma care with top university medicine and research from other disciplines – the population in our catchment area benefits from this hospitals.”
About AUVA:
Around 4.5 million people are legally insured with AUVA against the economic, health and social consequences of work accidents and occupational diseases. The AUVA quickly takes over its tasks entirely from the contributions of the employer and assumes liability for work accidents and the occurrence of occupational diseases. The core tasks of the AUVA are the prevention of accidents at work as well as curative treatment and rehabilitation. The aim is to reintegrate accident victims and employees with occupational illnesses back into the work process as soon as possible. Another core task of AUVA is financial compensation. These four areas of responsibility of AUVA enable integrated and efficient accident insurance with high economic and social benefits.
AUVA operates the trauma center in Vienna with the two locations Meidling and Brigittenau/Lorenz Böhler, the emergency hospitals in Linz, Salzburg, Klagenfurt and Styria with the two locations in Graz and Kalwang as well as the rehabilitation centers Meidling (Vienna), Weißer Hof (Lower Austria), Häring (Tyrol). ) and Tobelbad (Styria). In the AUVA facilities, more than 375,000 patients are treated at the highest medical level every year, of which more than 46,000 are inpatients.
About the Salzburg State Clinics:
As the largest health provider in Salzburg, the Salzburger Landeskliniken (SALK) with 6720 employees care for more than 83,700 inpatients, 9300 day clinics and 1.2 million outpatients a year. They consist of the Salzburg University Hospital with the Regional Hospital (LKH) campus and the Christian Doppler Clinic (CDK) campus in the city of Salzburg and the regional clinics in Hallein, St. Veit and Tamsweg.