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University Geriatric Medicine FELIX PLATTER

The “Felix Platter Hospital” has existed under this name since November 1956. Its beginnings go back to 1890. At that time, the Basel Citizens' Hospital was hopelessly overcrowded, which is why an additional hospital with 120 beds was put into operation on Burgfelderstrasse, which was still largely undeveloped and had little traffic. The hospital has been used in a variety of ways over time - during the two world wars it was also used as a warehouse for the military and as accommodation for soldiers. In between and especially after the wars, more and more patients from surgery, neurology, general medicine and gynecology were cared for in the hospital.

In 1956, the previous “auxiliary hospital” became the “Felix Platter Hospital”.[1] Soon afterwards, the planning work for the new building and the two staff houses began by the architects Fritz Rickenbacher and Walter Baumann. 37.7 million francs were approved for this. The inauguration took place on February 24, 1967. During this time, the Geriatric Competence Center, the Orthopedic and Rheumatological University Clinics were created. The Felix Platter Hospital has also been constantly changing structurally. The last major renovation and expansion was completed in 1999.

The Orthopedic University Clinic was moved to the University Hospital on March 1, 2003. At the same time, orthopedic rehabilitation in the Felix Platter Hospital was upgraded. On January 1, 2012, the Felix Platter Hospital became an “independent institution under public law” and is therefore no longer part of the administration of the Canton of Basel-Stadt.

At the beginning of 2013, the University Hospital and the Felix Platter Hospital further expanded their collaboration. The acute geriatrics department (AGUK, Memory Clinic, Basel Mobility Center) of the USB, including the university chair for geriatrics, was merged with the Felix Platter Hospital on January 1, 2013. This laid the foundation for a newly designed university center for geriatric medicine and rehabilitation for the benefit of the older population in the region. At the same time, the university chair for rheumatology, which had previously been based at the FPS, was newly affiliated to the university hospital.