Máxima Medisch Centrum ( English: ''Maxima Medical Centre'') is a

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in the

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, on two locations, in

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and

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. It was founded in 2002 through the merger of the Sint-Josephziekenhuis in Veldhoven and the Diaconessenhuis in Eindhoven, and was named after Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. The main location is in Veldhoven, with the location in Eindhoven serving for non-critical care. It is the second biggest hospital in the Eindhoven region, after the Catharina Ziekenhuis in Eindhoven.

History

Sint-Josephziekenhuis

Plans for the Sint-Josephziekenhuis had existed since 1915. Building started in 1930 at the Aalsterweg in Eindhoven, and it opened on 9 June 1932. It was designed by architect Eduard Cuypers and had 200 beds. During the second world war the building was used for injured German troops. In 1991 the hospital relocated to Veldhoven, to its current location.

Diaconessenhuis

In the early 20th century the city of Eindhoven, located in the Roman Catholic area of the Netherlands, had two mainly Roman Catholic hospitals, the Binnenziekenhuis en the Sint-Josephziekenhuis. During this period, Protestants from the rest of the country, relocated to Eindhoven, to work at

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, causing a growth of the Protestant population. Since 1929 the "Vereeniging voor Protestantsch-Christelijke Ziekenverpleging" ( English: ''Association for Protestant-Christian Patient Care'') had put in effort to get a Protestant hospital. In 1933 an emergency hospital was opened in a villa at the Parklaan in Eindhoven, mainly by the efforts of Phillipes headnurse Johanna Kleinod, and with financial support of dr. Anton Philips, who wanted the best medical care for all his employees, no matter what their religious orientation. With 20 beds it was soon found too small and in 1935 Villa Elsheim was bought with financial support of Philips. The new hospital, with 90 beds and a modern Rontgen department, was opened on 13 January 1940. In the 1950s the hospital was once again too small and in April 1967 it relocated to the Ds. Fliednerlaan in

Woensel Woensel is a former town in the Dutch province of North Brabant, but nowadays a borough of Eindhoven. An important rural village in North Brabant, Woensel is mentioned in a document from 1107; it was the seat of a deanage of the diocese of Liè ...

, Eindhoven. In the mid 1980s the Diaconessenhuis was one of the first Dutch hospitals where

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was done. It was the first Dutch hospital to perform a laparoscopic removal of a gallbladder.

Máxima Medisch Centrum

On 1 January 2002 the Sint-Josephziekenhuis and Diaconessenhuis fused and continued under the name Máxima Medisch Centrum. The new hospital was named after the wife of the then Dutch crown prince, Maxima of the Netherlands, who married that same year. On 1 September 2008 the services offered in the two locations was reorganised with the Veldhoven location becoming the main location for complex care, and the Eindhoven location for planned and minor care.

Healthcare

In 2012 Máxima Medisch Centrum had 543 beds, making it the second largest hospital in the Eindhoven region, after the Catharina Ziekenhuis in Eindhoven. With 3250 employees, out of which 210 medical specialists, it provided care for 170.000 policlinical patients for a total of 450.000 policlinical consultations, 42.000 day care clinical patients, and 25.000 overnight clinical patients for a total of 105.000 overnight stays. Máxima Medisch Centrum is a member of the "Vereniging Samenwerkende Topklinische Ziekenhuizen" ( English: ''Association Cooperating Topclinical Hospitals''), a cooperative association of the 20 largest Dutch teaching hospitals, who work together in areas of education and quality control, to guarantee the best level of healthcare. These hospitals have divided tertiary and specialist care amongst themselves, with set standards, in areas they call "topclinical care". Areas in which Máxima Medisch Centrum offers such "topclinical care" are: * Neonatal intensive care (NICU) * Obstetric high care (OHC) * Dialysis * Hemophilia * Policlinical advise for hereditary diseases

Location Veldhoven

Location Veldhoven is the main location of Máxima Medisch Centrum. It is used for policlinical consultations, complex surgeries, Woman Mother Child-centre, emergency care and intensive care. In 2012 Maxima of the Netherlands opened the Woman Mother Child-centre on location Veldhoven, an obstetric and neonatal high care centre where mother and child can be together during the first 24 hours after birth, even when high care is needed.

Location Eindhoven

Location Eindhoven is used for policlinical consultations, plannable care and day care patients.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maxima Medisch Centrum Teaching hospitals in the Netherlands Buildings and structures in Eindhoven