City hospitals of St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg is a young city by historical standards, but the level of medicine in the former capital of the Russian Empire grew with its buildings and streets. Even during the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna, he deservedly became the cultural and scientific center of the country, and remains to this day.

The first free hospitals in St. Petersburg, or, as they were called, houses of charity, or hospice, began to open at the end of the 18th century through the efforts of charitable societies, individuals and royalty.

Today in St. Petersburg there are about 150 hospitals, each of which has its own history, directly related to the development of medicine in this city.

City multi-purpose hospitals

If we talk about multidisciplinary medical institutions, then 2 city hospital in St. Petersburg - this is an indicator of the European level of service and the largest multidisciplinary hospital in the city.

Founded in 1991 with the support and assistance of German specialists, it soon became the most modernized medical institution equipped with the latest medical equipment. This allows qualified specialists not only to conduct complex operations using high-tech methods of treatment, but also to be a training ground for several scientific research institutes and medical universities in the country.

To date, 2 city hospitals in St. Petersburg serve more than 40,000 patients per year in the following departments:

• Diagnostic block;
• Rehabilitation department;
• The center of ophthalmology;
• gynecology;
• The center of gastroenterology;
• Three departments of cardiology;
• Resuscitation and intensive care;
• Medical cosmetology;
• 2 departments of neurosurgery;
• 2 centers of neurology;
• general surgery;
• Blood transfusion center;
• Department of Vascular Surgery;
• Traumatology and orthopedics;
• urology;
• endocrinology;
• The center of maxillofacial surgery;
• Centers of pulmonology and vertebral surgery.

In this hospital, the best diagnostic equipment is installed, which allows to determine the cause of the patient's disease with high accuracy. Complex operations on the heart, vessels of the brain and other organs are carried out with the help of laser and electrosurgery. The achievements of doctors and the level of treatment in this medical institution allow him to remain in the top ten hospitals in the country.

Hospital them. Botkin

Alexandrovskaya Barrack Hospital was founded in 1882. Today it is the Botkin Hospital (St. Petersburg), located at Mirgorodskaya Street, 3.

The question of the need for a rapidly developing city to have a separate infectious medical facility was caused by the fact that the number of infected people was constantly growing due to the fact that the infected patients were in the same wards with other patients.

For these purposes, separate 22 barracks were built, each of which was allocated for a specific type of disease, and one for convalescents.

The fact that the rest of the hospitals in St. Petersburg stopped taking infected people, significantly reduced the epidemiological situation in the capital. The trustee of this institution was S. P. Botkin, after whose death it began to bear his name.

Nowadays it is the largest city center for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Hospital Botkin (St. Petersburg) has united all the medical units of the city, working in this direction.

Until 2004, the institution was in the old buildings, so that the city government decided to build new buildings, which were solemnly put into operation in 2011 and 2013.

Children's hospitals

For today in a city there are 20 medical institutions for kids. The largest children's hospitals in St. Petersburg:

• The name of St. Mary Magdalene. It is one of the oldest hospitals in the city, founded in 1829. The mansion in which it was located was built on Vasilievsky Island in 1794 for Ivan Kusov, a large industrialist and supplier of the royal court. In 1828, the building was sold to convert it to a hospital. On its basis, a clinic of such a high level for that time was founded, that it was visited repeatedly by representatives of the imperial family. Only since 1993 the hospital has been re-equipped to receive small patients.

• The 1st city children's hospital was opened in 1974, for which 600 hectares were allocated in Polezhaevsky park of the Krasnoselsky district. Today, patients are met by 13 departments of a day hospital, most of which are taking patients around the clock.
• Fifth Children's Clinical Hospital. Filatova was once called the Imperial Nikolayevskaya, it was the first children's hospital in Russia. Founded in 1832, today it annually receives about 70,000 small patients. It has 650 beds in 29 offices, and 800 employees work within its walls. If the child needs urgent assistance, then it is sent here.

Children's hospitals in St. Petersburg are equipped with the best diagnostic equipment and modern operating rooms.

Regional Hospital

The capital of the Russian Empire was famous for its charity and patronage of its inhabitants. Many buildings of the city were erected at the expense of the rich and enlightened people of the time. So the regional hospital (St. Petersburg) was once the House of Charity, built in the courtyard of the mansion of the merchant of the first guild of AI Timenkov.

In her time there were 3 departments: men's, women's and children's, as well as a school for orphans and a chapel. Since 1939 it was equipped with a regional hospital with 600 seats, with it opened a polyclinic and a school of nurses. By 1980, it no longer contained all patients, and it was decided to expand it. In 1987, this medical institution treated more than 1000 patients at a time.

Today, not all city hospitals in St. Petersburg can boast of such results:

• Hospital for 1053 places;
• Polyclinic, in which doctors work in 40 specialties;
• More than 500 meals a day;
• Outpatient treatment in this hospital receives more than 200,000 people a year;
• This is a scientific and practical complex in which new methods of treating diseases with the application of the best medical technologies are constantly introduced.

The regional hospital of the city provides emergency medical care to all residents of the Leningrad region for many decades.

Hospital of Peter the Great

Clinical hospitals in St. Petersburg are the bases of medical universities in the city. So, the hospital for them. Peter the Great (Piskarevsky prospect, 47) refers to the university. Mechnikov. The appearance of this large medical institution was preceded by the decision of the State Duma in 1903 about the need for a hospital for 1000 beds. Its grand opening took place in the presence of royal people in 1914. By 1917, it had 1,500 beds, and departments were opened for such topical diseases as typhus and cholera.

Since 1932, a hospital was opened at the hospital, where 200 students each year were trained and simultaneously worked in hospitals. Today, it has 26 offices in 50 buildings, which annually accept more than 40,000 patients.

The clinic is equipped with the most modern medical equipment and is still the training base for future doctors.

Alexander Hospital

Not many hospitals in St. Petersburg can boast such a "biography" as the Alexandrovskaya clinic. Founded by the decree of Nicholas I of 16.04.1842, the hospital for unskilled workers is an example of how the imperial family was imbued with the needs of the people. Initially, the patients were placed in the other medical institutions assigned to them, but in 1866, according to the decree of Alexander II, a separate clinic was opened, called the Aleksandrovskaya hospital for the working population.

By 1891, more than 10,000 people were treated here annually. A distinctive feature of this institution is that it was here that many newest methods for treating various diseases were developed and introduced. This is also famous for today's staff of the Alexander Hospital. It takes up to 200 patients per day, and a 24-hour diagnostic department often saves human lives when emergency care is needed. More than 30 000 patients receive quality medical care within the walls of the Alexander Hospital.

Mariinsky Hospital

Only 3 hospitals in St. Petersburg have such a long history as the Mariinsky Clinic for the Poor. It was founded in honor of the 100th anniversary of the city at the request of Empress Maria Feodorovna and began accepting her first patients in 1805. Built according to the project of Giacomo Quarenghi, she is still an ornament of Liteiny Prospekt today .

Nowadays specialists of almost all medical directions are represented in it, it annually helps 40 000 patients. The clinic is especially famous for the results of its surgeons, thanks to which more than 12 000 operations are performed every year.

The hospital consists of 15 buildings in which 18 main and 20 additional offices are located, where a little more than 1000 specialists work.

Oncological hospitals

In 1946, it was decided to open a cancer hospital in St. Petersburg. Addresses of the main building and the branch: Veterans Ave., 56, and 2-nd Birch Alley. Already for 70 years, there is assistance and comprehensive treatment for patients with benign and malignant tumors.

Oncological dispensary is equipped with the best devices for diagnosing and treating cancer diseases.

City medicine

Hospitals of St. Petersburg have a glorious history of the development of medicine, not only in the city, but throughout the country. At one time such great doctors and scientists as Botkin, Bekhterev, Vinogradov and others worked in them. The names of many of them are well known abroad.

Modern doctors create a new history of medicine of the great city, which will be proud of the next generations of Petersburgers.