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Munich: LMU portal clinic opened as a contact point for all emergencies

The portal clinic is an interdisciplinary contact point for all emergencies in adult medicine.

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In the new Munich portal clinic of the LMU in the clinic district, many of the previously distributed specialist areas are bundled – as an interdisciplinary contact point for all emergencies.

  • The new Portal clinic the science was in Munich opened.
  • At the Ziemssenstraße it serves as interdisciplinary contact point for all emergencies.
  • The subject areas were previously in Clinic district distributed.

New history is to be written on ground steeped in history: The LMU portal clinic, the new The heart of the clinic district, has now officially opened. The company at Ziemssenstrasse 5 is with the Obstetrics already started – from Tuesday, June 22nd, the Medical clinic, the Surgical Clinic and the Polyclinic move from Pettenkoferstraße. Experts in obstetrics, emergency aid, surgery and internal medicine will then work together on 12,400 square meters, with 200 beds on seven wards.

In the 1750s, the Hospital of the Brothers of Mercy was built on Ziemssenstrasse. The groundbreaking ceremony for the five-storey new building, which is now connected to the historic, listed Ziemssen clinic next door, was celebrated on the foundation walls in autumn 2015.

In 1805 even Napoleon himself had dropped by, stressed Markus Lerch, Medical Director of the LMU Clinic, in his opening speech. The 112.5 million euro project was built for almost six years, which was largely financed by the university hospital itself and by the Free State.

Munich: LMU portal clinic opened as an interdisciplinary contact point for all emergencies

At the new location, many of the previously available Clinic districts distributed specialist areas bundled – “a total of twelve disciplines work side by side here,” says Lerch.

Thanks to its interdisciplinary structure, the Portal Clinic a medical center for all emergencies and for the chronically ill who need partial and short-term inpatient treatment. 70,000 outpatients and 15,000 inpatients can be treated annually, the emergency room is designed for 30,000 patients. If the disease is more complex, you will be transferred to Großhadern.

In addition, up to 2500 Munich children can be born here each year. In the future, mathematics and computer science students will move into the neoclassical building on Maistraße, where the women’s clinic was previously housed.

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