About us
Welcome to the website of the Beroun Rehabilitation Hospital, which should contribute to greater openness of our hospital to the public – both lay and professional. We believe that the information you find here will allow you to get to know us better and gain the necessary trust in our hospital.
The Beroun Hospital, opened in 1929, has been undergoing a fundamental change since its privatization by Jessenia as in 2007. Its restructuring and revitalization, in which the new owner has already invested several hundred million crowns, brought its patients and employees a comfortable, materially and professionally state-of-the-art environment, in symbiosis with the most important – quality, expert care, provided with human and considerate approach. The quality of the hospital is confirmed, among other things, by the increasing number of patients who purposefully seek it out – not only from the catchment area, but practically from all over the country, as well as a number of letters and e-mails.
We firmly believe that if you need us, you will be satisfied with our care, using the latest medical knowledge, as well as with the environment, often compared to our home environment by our clients. But we also need your helpfulness and trust. And if you are convinced that everything is not right, do not hesitate to contact us.
We hope that on the website of the Beroun Rehabilitation Hospital you will find everything you are interested in and that the information will be comprehensive and understandable for you.
From the history of the Beroun hospital
The hospital is essentially a service to citizens. The service of the highest value
Our ancestors were certainly aware of this when they started thinking about setting up a hospital in Beroun. Berounsko, which began to develop relatively strongly industrially during the 19th century, began to feel very much the absence of quality medical facilities. True, since 1897 there has been a modern hospital built by the Prague Ironworks Company in Králové Dvůr, but it was mostly intended only for employees of the local Karlo-Emil’s smelter.
The construction of the hospital in Beroun was first considered in the 1980s, at the request of the Provincial Committee to all district councils, to establish hospitals where they had not been before. A competition was even announced for its location – just for the sake of interest, then a plot of land was selected between Městská hora and today’s large housing estate – a project was drawn up and a building permit was obtained. But that’s the end of it. Subsequently, it was even the construction of three smaller hospitals in the then offices of district physicians, followed by the construction in Beroun and its branch in Litna. The contradictions were insurmountable and there was basically no real will to build. At the same time, finances in the Beroun district, growing thanks to the development of industry and trade, were certainly not an obstacle. So in the end, the original intention began to materialize after a long forty years. After the establishment of an independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, efforts to establish a hospital intensified again. Already in 1921, the then newly established District Administrative Commission applied to the Ministry of Health and Sports for the construction of a county hospital in Beroun. After two years, however, it was also rejected on the grounds that the state does not have sufficient funds.
The commission eventually decided to build the hospital with its own resources and loans.
From the three designs, a beautiful quiet place in the Závodí district was chosen, mainly due to the fact that there was a source of quality drinking water nearby. It was bought from Marie and František Brotánek. The competition for the elaboration of the entire hospital project was won by the Prague architect Karel Roštík, a tender was announced, in which 153 companies participated. 60 of them took part in the construction, almost half of them from Beroun itself.
Excavation and construction work began in August 1927. During the year, rough work was completed, the area was connected to the outskirts of the city by an access road, a fence wall was built and heating, electricity and water were distributed. In 1929, the hospital was completed, the necessary equipment was provided, such that for its time it became one of the most modern hospitals in Czechoslovakia. The costs were not negligible – more than 20.5 million crowns.
In front of the granite monolith at the surgical pavilion, with the inscription “Built by the district self-government in the years 1927 – 1929 for the benefit of the suffering,” important representatives of the state administration and self-government met for its ceremonial opening on December 1, 1929. The library owner of the General Public District Hospital, as its full name sounded, was the Hořovice District Office, under which Beroun fell until 1936. The above-mentioned District Administrative Commission had a self-governing function for the Beroun part of the district. Only in connection with the adjustment of the political administration of the district did the owner of the hospital change and all powers were taken over by the District Office in Beroun. Even before that, in 1935, the hospital extended its name to Masaryk in honor of the President of the Republic.
Already at the end of the 1930s, however, the Beroun hospital ceased to have sufficient capacity and began to really consider an extension, especially internal medicine. History seems to be repeating itself, again affected by a number of facts which, interestingly, turned the intention, again in 40 years,. With breaks in the years 1960 to 1978, however, the overhaul of an already dilapidated area began, and in 1976 a new internship was finally built to provide care for the long-term sick (LDN). It was opened in March 1980.
But let’s go back from this time for a while. The advent of the communist regime in 1948 brought great changes in the health care system. As early as the beginning of 1949, the Beroun hospital, still managed by a board of directors appointed by the Beroun council, became the state administration. It is certainly worth emphasizing that until then it had been managed very well;
From December 1, 1951, the Beroun hospital, together with all other medical facilities in the Beroun district, was incorporated into the District Institute of National Health in Beroun. In fact, it lost its independence and, for political reasons, the name of President Masaryk had to disappear from its name.
At the time of its opening in 1929, it had a total of 250 beds available (until 1940), of which 116 were for surgery and the rest for the infectious (internal) department. The number of primates did not grow until after the war (the eye department, founded in 1930, operated here for only a few years). From 1950, a gynecology and obstetrics department was added to the Beroun hospital, in 1960 a pediatric and infant department, in 1972 a non-inpatient anesthesiology and resuscitation department, in 1976 a pathology and anatomy department, and a year later a rehabilitation department was opened. In 1980, the already mentioned long-term care hospital was opened, three years later a six-bed intensive care unit and in 1985 an inpatient anesthesiology and resuscitation department. However, this situation was different in the period before the privatization of the hospital in 2007, some departments no longer existed.
Hospital park
The rehabilitation hospital in Beroun is surrounded by a large park. In addition to the park, there used to be an orchard and vegetable garden as well as flower beds. Some witnesses still remember the beds of the lilies of the valley of the Boromejek sisters. But then everything gradually disappeared. True, until the 1970s, there was also a gardener in the Beroun hospital, but then the park and everything else really fell into disrepair. Paths and a pond disappeared under the raid bushes, the flowers sometimes came to life wildly, but in fact the work of destruction was completed. In 1996, the park was partially cleaned of overgrown trees, but in 2007, when the hospital was taken over by Jessenia, it was again in very poor condition. The new owner of the Beroun hospital gradually restored the park, repairing the wall around the hospital premises to its original form. Today, the park is beautiful and has once again become an oasis of peace and relaxation for patients and their visitors. There was also an interesting and purposeful space for rehabilitation training of people with disabilities, which is appreciated mainly by clients of the Rehabilitation Center.