History

The Silesian Countess Hedwig von Rittberg founded a so-called "Nursing Corps", which was later called "Nursing Corps of Rittberghaus". She organised, from a one-room flat in Berlin, the care of people in need with the help of her corps.

The Nursing Corps of Rittberghaus is being integrated by the Red Cross and takes over their seven principles and their statutes.

Four Berlin nursing corpses get united and form the DRK nursing corps Berlin e.V. With the founding of the first "Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Schwesternschaft Berlin Gemeinnützige Krankenhaus GmbH" they lay the foundation for the institutions of the DRK Nursing Corps Berlin. This includes three hospitals: the Rittberg Hospital of the Red Cross, including the Rittberg-Clinic for Paediatrics, the Red Cross Hospital Jungfernheide and the DRK Hospital Mark Brandenburg (now known as: DRK Kliniken Berlin Mitte) with its sites Drontheimer Street and Mariendorf. In the founding year they employ 850 staff.

At the site in Mariendorf a nursing home (DRK Kliniken Berlin Pflege & Wohnen Mariendorf) with 108 beds is taken into operation.

The Red Cross Hospital Jungfernheide is closed. The departments continue their work as DRK Kliniken Berlin Westend with 275 beds on the grounds of the former University Hospital Charlottenburg with significantly modified, expanded services.

The Nursing Corps takes over the sponsorship for the former Salvador-Allende-Krankenhaus/Municipal Hospital Köpenick (founded 1914). The facility is now managed as DRK Kliniken Berlin Köpenick with 587 inpatient beds in sponsorship of the Second Hospital non-profit GmbH. It is the first hospital in the former East Berlin which is converted into a non-profit sponsorship hospital.

The Rittberg Hospital of the German Red Cross is closed. The Rittberg-Clinic for Paediatrics moves to the Women's and Children's Hospital in Pulsstraße. Under sponsorship of the Red Cross Nursing Corps a Women's hospital is newly founded on the premises of the former University women's clinic, which had moved to the grounds of the Virchow-Klinikum before. At the site Pulsstraße there are 135 beds in total.

GPs participate in a pilot project on emergency care in the First- Aid ward of DRK Kliniken Berlin Westend. This kind of cooperation will be established in other locations of the company as well.

The DRK Kliniken Berlin receive the internationally renowned accreditation by the Joint Commission International (JCI) from the U.S..

For the first time in the history of the Federal Republic Germany, a private institution changes to a non-profit organization: The Berlin Wiegmann Hospital - the oldest existing psychosomatic clinic in Germany (founded 1948) is - under the name DRK Kliniken Berlin Wiegmann-Klinik - integrated into the association of DRK Kliniken Berlin.

The first Medical Care Centre in sponsorship of a hospital in Berlin starts operations at the site of DRK Kliniken Berlin Mark Brandenburg (now DRK Kliniken Berlin Mitte).

The nursing schools of the DRK Nursing Corps are consolidated at the Westend hospital and provide education for nursing professionals for approx. 300 students in nursing care and paediatric nursing care. Moreover, there is a separate department for in-house training and continuing education.

1st re-accreditation according to the standards of the Joint Commission International.

Acquisition of the Park Sanatorium Dahlem by the DRK Nursing Corps Berlin. In the Park Sanatorium Dahlem, as a pure general practitioners hospital with a total of 45 inpatient beds, approximately 3,000 patients per year are treated. This is the second acquisition of a hospital from private ownership by the non-profit DRK Kliniken Berlin. Opening of the Centre for Radiation Therapy at the DRK Kliniken Berlin Westend.