Sisters of Charity Hospital

Sisters of Charity Hospital, end of XIX century
Geography
Location	Vinogradska Street, Zagreb, Croatia
Organisation
Care system	Publicly funded health care
Hospital type	Clinical
Affiliated university	University of Zagreb
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	853
History
Founded	1846. Current site 1894
Links
Website	home page
Lists	Hospitals in Croatia

The clinical hospital Sisters of Charity (Croatian: Klinička bolnica Sestre milosrdnice) in Zagreb, Croatia is one of the oldest hospitals in southeastern Europe.^[1][2]

Contents 1 History 2 Activities 3 See also 4 References

[edit] History

The hospital was established in 1846, through the initiative of Cardinal Juraj Haulik, the Archbishop of Zagreb. It changed various locations in the city center until a permanent hospital campus was built from 1893 to 1894 by the German architect Kuno Waidmann, on the place of the former Villa Socias and a neighboring graveyard in Vinogradska Street.^[2][3]

It was operated by the Sisters of Charity from 1894 until 1948. The Emperor Franz Joseph visited the hospital in 1895.^[2][4]

After WWII, it was nationalized by the Communist government (in 1948) and was renamed the Dr. Mladen Stojanović Hospital. The original name was returned in 1992, but the government retained ownership, and did not return it to the Sisters who had founded and run it before the confiscation.

[edit] Activities

As of 2007^[update], the hospital consists of 13 clinics and 7 specialized institutes, 853 beds and 2,334 employees in one campus. The hospital is an educational facility for institutes of higher education, i.e., the medical and dental schools, as well as for secondary education - a school for nurses.^[1]

[edit] See also

• Črnomerec
• (Croatian) Kuno Waidmann

[edit] References