Multi-million investment at Chemnitz hospital

Chemnitz. The topping-out crown hangs visibly over the shell of the new Cardiology Centre at the Küchwald hospital site: this week there was a reason to celebrate. With the construction of the new cardiac centre at the Küchwald site, the outpatient, inpatient and acute treatment of heart disease is to be centralised and thus more closely interlinked in the interests of optimal patient treatment. This is necessary because cardiological care still has duplicate structures in terms of medical technology, rooms and staff, complicated logistics for patients and staff and distances of up to several hundred metres in some cases. This historical situation is to be resolved with the new cardiology centre. In addition, a needs-based expansion of the infrastructure is necessary to accommodate the increasing number of patients with cardiovascular diseases in the future. The infrastructure project, which is estimated to cost around 64.2 million euros, is being funded by the Free State of Saxony Saxony with 47.32 million euros. Completion is scheduled for mid-2025.

"The topping-out ceremony marked another milestone for the construction project and thus for the healthcare centre Chemnitz ," said Ralph Burghart, Mayor for Human Resources, Finance and Education of the City of Chemnitz. Combining high-performance medicine with architecture at a listed site was a particular challenge, which was mastered perfectly here, continued Burghart.

Everything under one roof: the diverse range of care at the Cardiology Centre

The Cardiology Centre with a total of six levels in the new building (and existing space in the neighbouring Building 6) covers around 7,000 square metres of floor space for acute care as well as outpatient and inpatient care for cardiology patients. This includes the acute internal medicine ward (KINA) with a chest pain unit, an intervention centre with a total of six intervention rooms and corresponding infrastructure, a functional diagnostics department, outpatient structures, an intensive care unit with an attached monitoring ward and four normal wards with corresponding supply and disposal structures. The new building, the future House 7, will also be connected to House 6 on various levels by a connecting corridor with adjoining room structures.

Source: BLICK.de from 08.12.2023