Česky
13.6.2011
After a period of uncertainty, caused by a number of circumstances, including a poor system of organisation and financing of health care, the Beroun hospital was given a new chance by its privatisation in 2007 - to build on the best of the history of Beroun health care, to regain the tarnished reputation that was established especially in the first years of the 21st century, when its organisational structure changed several times.Last but not least, the many political attacks accompanying the preparation and subsequent implementation of its privatisation, as well as the "predictions" that the privatisation would end the Beroun hospital altogether, contributed to the uncertainty of its employees and patients. However, a new, albeit short, chapter in the history of this hospital dispels all these catastrophic reports. The new owner, Jessenia, a.s. ing. Sotirios Zavalianis, has brought a new vision and its implementation. In conjunction with the Hořovice Hospital, which is also owned by this owner, he is succeeding in fulfilling his goal of creating a functional, high-quality, modern and, above all, friendly and trustworthy inpatient medical facility in the former administrative district of Beroun.
With new equipment, state-of-the-art devices and the most important thing - a number of quality professionals from the ranks of doctors and other medical staff. Almost immediately after taking over the hospital in the autumn of 2007, the Beroun hospital began its extensive restructuring. In addition to the relatively minor construction works, painting and dealing with emergency situations, modifications to the headquarters building, where all the administration was moved, and the construction of a new canteen for the staff, the revitalisation of the operating theatres, which had been under construction, also began in the autumn. The investment amounted to almost 15 million crowns and in January 2008, the two operating theatres serving the now very successful Arthroscopy Centre were inaugurated. The building, which used to house the administration on the ground floor before privatisation and the children's ward years ago, was substantially rebuilt, including all new utilities and windows, and in May 2009 it began to serve the needs of the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Medicine.
Today, it houses the long-term care hospital, with rehabilitation getting its first definitive new premises in January 2011 with the revitalisation of the so-called old internal medicine ward (Hall D). Subsequent modifications of the newer internship building to the outpatient and inpatient parts of the rehabilitation facility will be completed by the end of 2011, followed by the completion of the third, new part of the entire rehabilitation facility with swimming pools and gymnasium by the end of 2012. The internal ward, including the intensive care unit created from the old hospital wards, is now located in the former surgery building, the largest building in Beroun Hospital. There are also additional rooms for physiotherapy and rehabilitation medicine, day care beds serving the Arthroscopy Centre, and on the ground floor there are outpatient clinics, X-rays, sonography and, since spring 2011, magnetic resonance imaging. This building was inaugurated on the occasion of the big celebration of the 80th anniversary of the opening of the hospital in September 2009. In addition to the building modifications and completely new equipment, soon after the new owner took over the hospital, modifications to the very neglected hospital park began, which should be a pleasant place for staff and patients in the not-too-distant future, as it will also include a training area for everyday physical activities for patients, especially those in the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Medicine.
To restore the park, a foundation was established in May 2010 by MUDr. Jiří Besser, the former mayor of Beroun, now the Minister of Culture, whose board of directors included the legend of our hockey, goalkeeper Dominik Hašek. Since the Central Bohemian Region handed over the Beroun hospital to a new owner, almost CZK 200 million have been invested in it. To complete all the plans of the new owner, roughly in the horizon of three years, it will be necessary to spend quite large sums of money. The Beroun Hospital, located in a beautiful setting, is undoubtedly becoming one of the most beautiful and modern smaller hospitals in the Czech Republic, popular with patients from all over the country. And this is certainly a good message for all present and future residents of Beroun, but not only for them, for the years to come.
