Helios Hospital Emil von Bering Germany, Berlin
- 2 awards and certificates
- Academic clinical hospital
- The clinic conducts scientific research and clinical studies
- 208 doctors total
This Helios clinic in Zehlendorf (a south Berlin suburb) is named after Emil von Behring, a German bacteriologist and Nobel Prize winner.
The clinic is best known for its interdisciplinary centers that bring together specialty doctors, such as the minimally invasive surgery center, spine surgery center, and diabetes center. They promote active communications, and comprehensive case reviews that result in the best treatment strategies.
More about the clinic
Helios von Behring is best known for its achievements in the field of pulmonary diseases' treatment. Its pulmonary diseases' center performs approximately 4,500 bronchoscopies, 3,500 chemotherapy procedures, and more than 1,000 surgeries annually. In 2018, it treated 2,343 lung cancer patients, and 99% of all lung or bronchial resection surgeries were successful.
The Oskar-Helene-Heim hospital, that has become part of Helios, is home to the modern Center of Joint Health and Spine Surgery. Its focus is on congenital and acquired musculoskeletal diseases and traumas. The Center is largely focused on prosthetics, spine surgeries, and minimally invasive procedures.
It is also worth mentioning that it has achieved excellent results in the field of intestinal cancer treatment. In 2018, the Center performed 152 large intestine and colon resection surgeries on cancer patients, and 145 of them were successful. This is above the national average.
Vascular surgery is yet another specialty area of this clinic. Its interdisciplinary center treats 4,000 patients annually.
History
The clinic was founded in 2000, as three major medical institutions merged, Oskar-Helene-Heim, Heckeshorn Lung Clinic and a local state hospital.
The Oskar-Helene-Heim hospital was founded in 1905. This is the year when a manufacturer Oskar Pintsch with his wife Helene established a healing center for teaching and treating disabled adolescents. The center then developed into a university clinic for orthopedics and trauma surgery well known outside Berlin.
Since 1947, Heckeshorn Clinic was a municipal tuberculosis hospital, one of the most important Lung Center and Thoracic Surgery in Germany.
The newly established center, based on three hospitals, embraced and carried on the traditions of each foundation clinics - lung diseases therapy and orthopedics and traumatology. The name Emil von Behring was borrowed from the local state hospital.
The most effective surgeries and procedures
• Lung and bronchus resection in cancer patients: a procedure that involves a removal of a respiratory organ section, affected by a tumor.
• Chemotherapy for lung cancer: an injection of drugs into a patient's bloodstream that slow down the growth or destroy the malignant tumor.
Achievements
• Lung Cancer Center was certified in 2009 by the German Cancer Society (DKG).
• Bowel Cancer Center was certified in 2019 by the German Cancer Society (DKG).
• Diabetes Center was certified in 2015 by the German Diabetes Society (DDG).
• Vascular Surgery Center was certified in 2014 by the German Society for Cardiovascular Surgery (DGG).
Services
All Helios clinics pay a lot of attention to both medical outcomes and comfort of their patients. The Helios von Behring clinic offers comfortable modern patient rooms, complete with broadband Internet, TV and personal bathrooms. The clinic's interiors are well lit, both through the glass roof and a spacious enclosed green yard with trees. The clinic has a food kiosk and a cafeteria. It also offers in-room meal services. The menu includes both a-la-carte and preselected choices.
Certificates
Certified lung cancer center
Certified intestinal cancer center
Location
The clinic is located in the green south-west Berlin's Zehlendorf district. It takes some 20 minutes to get to Berlin's downtown by metro, while the splendid Wannsee and Schlachtensee, locals' favorite destinations, are right next to the clinic. At the Peacock Island, a former Prussian royal family residence and an UNESCO heritage site, you can actually see peacocks. The location also offers quick access to the historic downtown Potsdam.
