After six years of construction, the new LMU clinic in the city center has been inaugurated.
Prime Minister Markus Söder used the ceremony for a smug declaration of war in the direction of Berlin.
Munich - The new hospital is in a historic location - in the heart of the city, just a stone's throw from Sendlinger Tor.
The Brothers of Mercy built the first hospital here in 1752.
Today the area of the LMU Clinic around Nussbaumstrasse, Pettenkoferstrasse and Mathildenstrasse houses the oldest and largest medical campus in Germany.
“Even Napoleon was there,” reported LMU clinic director Markus Lerch proudly.
His most prominent guest was very enthusiastic about this “historical update”: “You don't have to be in Berlin to be number one in Germany,” said Prime Minister Markus Söder on Tuesday at the ceremony for the inauguration of the new LMU inner city clinic.
New LMU clinic opened in Munich - it's also about supraregional marketing
His tongue-in-cheek analysis has a very serious background.
For many years now, more or less healthy competition has been raging between Berlin and Munich * not only in politics, but also in medicine.
More precisely, between the Charité, Germany's largest university hospital (a total of 15,500 employees and 3,000 beds), and the LMU Klinikum as the second largest hospital (11,000 employees, 2,200 beds).
When it comes to the leading role of top-class medicine in Germany, many doctors in Munich see themselves on an equal footing with their Berlin colleagues - at least.
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Historic location, modern clinic: the five-story building of the new LMU clinic houses 200 beds.
© Markus Götzfried
This reputation is considered to be not insignificant, incidentally also in the struggle for research funding.
That is why clinic director Lerch has supraregional marketing at the top of the agenda.
The internist and gastroenterologist, who specializes in diseases of the pancreas, is well known among scientists.
He is also considered a smart networker.
The inauguration ceremony on Tuesday - enhanced by the media through the visit to Söder - should have come at just the right time for him.
Munich's new milestone in medicine - key data from the LMU Klinikum
Especially since the new inner city clinic can definitely be rated as a milestone in medicine in Munich.
Crammed under the roof with the latest medical technology and treatment options.
The key data:
200 beds, spread over seven wards, for patients from various specialist departments in the new hospital alone.
This means that a total of over 500 beds are available at the LMU city center.
Optimal treatment options for up to 30,000 emergency patients per year.
The idea behind it: The hospital should serve as a so-called portal clinic.
"It is designed to provide outpatient or short-term inpatient care and - if the disease is more complex - to relocate them to Großhadern," explained Science Minister Bernd Sibler.
In total, doctors can treat 70,000 outpatients and 15,000 inpatients annually.
In addition, around 2500 Munich children are expected to be born in the new inner-city clinic every year.
Obstetrics and neonatology moved from the more than 100-year-old clinic on Maistraße to the new building yesterday.
A total of specialists from twelve departments will work in the new hospital.
Commissioning takes place in two stages.
After obstetrics, the internal medicine and surgery departments will move into the new building next Tuesday.
The costs for the five-storey building with 12,400 square meters of usable space amount to 112.5 million euros
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