Evangelisches Krankenhaus Witten

Evangelisches Krankenhaus Witten is a medical facility located in the city of Witten in Germany. The company specializes in various fields of medicine, nursing, and therapy, including general and vascular surgery, anesthesiology and intensive care, geriatrics, hematology and oncology, internal medicine, emergency department/outpatient clinic, radiotherapy, trauma surgery and orthopedics, and urology. The hospital also has certified centers such as the Endoprosthesis Center, Continence and Pelvic Floor Center, Local Trauma Center, Prostate Center, Sleep Laboratory, Center for Geriatric Trauma Surgery, and Interstitial Cystitis and Pelvic Pain Center. In nursing, it offers counseling for relatives, implementation of nursing care standards, specialized nursing consultancy, wound management, liaison services, delirium prevention, dental therapy, diabetes counseling, dietary counseling, Flexipool, and case management. In therapy, physiotherapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy are offered. The hospital directs its services to patients and visitors, proposing service packages, social counseling, an ethics committee, self-help groups, inpatient hospitalization, and a location plan for Witten. Evangelisches Krankenhaus Witten is part of the Evangelische Krankenhausgemeinschaft Herne | Castrop-Rauxel gGmbH, which owns EvK Castrop-Rauxel and EvK Herne with branches in Herne-Mitte and Herne-Eickel as well as EvK Witten. The hospitals are certified according to DIN EN ISO 9001 and MAAS BGW and are academic teaching hospitals. They also offer educational and career programs, including Bundesfreiwilligendienst_neu, internal training, Bundesfreiwilligendienst, internships, and medical training at EvK Witten. The hospital is engaged in the Smart Hospital project, which aims to transform the facility into a smarter and more digitized healthcare environment.