Třebíč Hospital, a contributory organization,

was established on the basis of a  charter  approved by  Resolution No. 074/02/2003 / ZK
at a meeting  of the Vysočina Regional Council on 31 March 2003.

Founder of the
Vysočina Region Hospital with its registered office at Žižkova 57, Jihlava
Subject and main purpose of the activity
Provision of health care, which includes outpatient and inpatient basic and specialized diagnostic and medical care, necessary preventive care and pharmacy activities. The organization carries out scientific, educational and information activities in health care, which means in particular the implementation of clinical trials of the effects of drugs and new medical techniques, scientific research, undergraduate and continuing education of health professionals and ensuring the activities of the professional library. The organization provides social services provided in institutional care facilities.

Additional activities:

• Preparation and sale of lunches to foreign diners.
• Preparation and sale of food and additional assortment in canteens or buffets, including the sale of own products.
• Dispensing and sale of medicinal products, substances and medical devices, sale of other materials and goods.
• Operation of parking, charging for entry to the complex.
• Accommodation services.
• Rental of movable property.
• Organizing cultural, sporting and social events, operation of physical education and sports facilities.
• Sterilization of medical devices.
• Rental property, residential and non-residential premises.

More than a hundred years ago, on September 23, 1902, the General Public Hospital of František Josef I was approved and opened in the town of Třebíč  .  On November 18 of the same year, the first patients were admitted to the hospital. By decree of the Provincial Office, the hospital was officially opened on January 1, 1903. The  establishment of the hospital in Třebíč required the need for the entire wide region. The nearest surgical wards, where it was necessary to bring patients for operations, were then in Brno, Znojmo and Jihlava. The level of existing hospitals in the city, which have been established gradually since the 15th century, was not great and it was a matter of time and resolving many vicissitudes that accompanied the construction of the hospital (the state rejected the municipal committee request for a subsidy), when the citizens of Třebíč finally .
Originally, the hospital had  60 beds, but already during 1903 another 30 beds were created. The hospital had a main building, a kitchen and a room for nurses, as well as an isolation pavilion where children and infectious patients were housed. The hospital employed  3 doctors and 12 nurses of the Order of St. Francis.The hospital was under the administration of the city.  Patients who had sufficient funds to pay for treatment, or patients who had a certificate from the mayor and the spiritual administrator of the poorness, were admitted. The terminally ill or those unable to pay were released after three months and handed over to their home community. Doctors were forbidden to accept incurable patients at all. Women could only be admitted to childbirth if they had nowhere to go or if their condition required surgery. Children under the age of four were admitted only for surgery or in case of impossibility of their isolation at home in case of contagious disease. Only the cheapest drugs were prescribed. The caretaker brought them to the hospital in a shopping bag. The beds were divided into two classes. What were the duties of the patients can be read in House rules of the General Public Hospital in Třebíč from 1919.
The hospital in Třebíč was not always successful. In 1921, the hospital’s financial distress reached such an extent that it was to be closed at the instigation of the city council. But it survived and during the Second World War it had a particularly exceptional position: it was the only Czech hospital in western Moravia (there was a German leadership in Jihlava, Znojmo belonged to the German Empire).

Hospital construction

• The so-called the main building, the oldest building in the hospital, dating from 1902, served the surgical department for many years and still serves the urology, ARO, CT and ultrasound departments today. In one part of it was and still is part of the gynecological department.
• In 1910 (according to some sources in 1911) a villa was built to accommodate doctors. In 1917, the military administration set up a pavilion for convalescent soldiers in the hospital. After the coup, it was handed over to the Moravian Committee and a ward for patients with lung diseases was located in it. During the years 1919-20, an administrative building and a morgue with a chapel were built. The chapel was used as a ceremonial room from which the burials of some people who died in the hospital were told. Originally, these buildings stood alone, but in 1960 the entrance was reconstructed. The buildings were then connected by a single-storey bridge structure (today’s entrance to the hospital). In front of the entrance to the hospital is a baroque statue of St. Wenceslas, dating from the first half of the 18th century.
• In 1918, the TBC building was built. Immediately after completion, the building was occupied by soldiers. It was repaired in 1926 and at the beginning of 1927 it housed the first patients of the internal department. The largest reconstruction took place in 1935, when the ceilings in part of the building burned down. In 1930, a children’s pavilion was established and the buildings were connected. They received their final form in 1973-75. Today, a pavilion of small internal disciplines (infectious, pulmonary, cutaneous) stands in these places.
• In 1935, an infectious pavilion was built and ten years later, in 1945, a wooden building at the hospital gate – the TRN pavilion, from 1947 the pavilion of the children’s ward of the hospital. During World War II, a new farm building was being built. It was completed in 1946. The building housed a boiler room, incinerator, laundry, kitchen, warehouses, offices and a dining room for employees. In 1945, a building for the separation of the ear and eye was built as a temporary facility for temporary use. In 1948, the house for a city hospital employee was converted into a building for a transfusion station. It acquired its current form in 1952.
• In 1950, a building for nuns was built, later rebuilt into an inpatient children’s ward.
• In the 1970s, a nuclear medicine department was established in the basement of this building.In 1951, the “Gigant” operating building with apartments for employees was built.
• In 1971, the pharmacy building was rebuilt on the site of the hospital administrator’s house, and car workshops were also built in the same year.
• In 1974, a cultural house was built in the hospital.
• In 1977, a new maternity hospital building was completed. It was connected to the building of the old gynecology by a single-storey bridge.
• In 1985, a new surgery building and operating rooms were opened.
• In 1994, the villa was rebuilt and dialysis was established there.
• In the years 1995-96, the infectious pavilion was rebuilt into the department of infectious, coronary unit and microbiological laboratory.
• In 1996, the ENT department was moved to the place of pediatric surgery and the TRN pavilion was rebuilt into a hematology laboratory.
• In 1998, a universal pavilion was opened for internal medicine – internal medicine, neurology and children’s departments. Later, a pharmacy and RDG also moved here. The TRN department moved to a vacant place after the coronary unit in the infection pavilion. In the same year, a station for the treatment of drug-addicted adolescent women was established at the psychiatric ward in Jemnice. In 2000, a pathology was built on the site of the temporary ENT building and the eye department. Administrative operations from the building on Družstevní Street were moved to the children’s pavilion.
• In 2003, a new pavilion of small internal medicine for the skin, lung and infectious departments was opened.
• In September 2005, the catering operation was renovated.
• In June 2007, the central laboratory was opened in a newly renovated building marked with the letter “L”. The central laboratory includes a laboratory of biochemistry, hematology and microbiology. The building also houses the Hematooncology Outpatient Clinic and the Hospital Collection Outpatient Clinic. Access to these ambulances is a separate entrance in the right part of the building “L”.
• In about the same year (2007), the idea of ​​completing the right part of the pavilion of small internal branches (building “M”) in the form of the Mother and Child pavilion arose. This idea was successfully implemented with the help of the Regional Office of the Vysočina Region and joint financing from ROP funds. Since 1 July 2011, the Třebíč Hospital has seen the opening of new premises, where the rehabilitation department, the pediatric and neonatal unit and the maternity hospital have moved. On the ground floor of the building, new premises were created for a pharmacy, reception, common halls for patients and hospital visitors with refreshments.

Transport of the sick
In the very beginnings of the hospital, a horse-drawn carriage was used to transport the sick to the hospital. In 1909, the rescue station for the transport of the sick had two carriages, in 1931 the Rescue Station of the Czechoslovak Red Cross received two new Walter cars. The rescue service cars were stationed in the fire station, later at the Red Cross building on Bráfova Street. After World War II, the hospital already had its own ambulance. In the 1950s, the Transport Medical Service (DZS), which was already part of the hospital, had eight ambulances with the same number of drivers. The Praga Baby brand was replaced by Škoda cars, Tudor, 1202, 1203 and the Yugoslav IMV. DZS was a part of the hospital until 1993. Today, the transport of patients is provided by the private company Autostužby JAŠA sro with twenty-one modern ambulances.

In 1976, the Emergency Medical Service (RLP) was established in Třebíč. The rescue service in Třebíč was one of the first in Czechoslovakia to be provided on a continuous 24-hour basis since its inception. Until 1993, it operated as part of the hospital. After 1993, most rescue services were separated from hospitals, and separate district organizations were established on the territory of individual districts of the Vysočina Region, which merged individual exit stations and control rooms. The change took place on July 1, 2004, when the Medical Rescue Service of the Vysočina Region (ZZS KV, po) was established and individual district rescue services were gradually incorporated under this organization.

Hospital management Until 1944, the medical directors of the hospital were the primary surgical departments. From that year, the head of the hospital became the head of the internal department 
MUDr. Otmar Šádek.

Since 1952, when the District Institutes of National Health (OÚNZ) were established, the function of director has been:

MUDr. Jan Urbanek
MUDr. Leopold Fabisovsky
MUDr. Jaroslav Zednicek
MUDr. Vilem Kominek
MUDr. Jaroslav Kyvir
MUDr. Vlastimil Sula,
MD Frantisek Seda
MUDr. Josef Hyll

After 1990:
MUDr. Petr Hava,
MD Vilem Blazek
Mgr. Luděk Hajíček (until 2000)
Ing. Jaroslav Soukup (2000-2003)
Ing. Petr Mayer (2003-2010)
Ing. Leos Dostal (2010-2013)
Ing. Jan Ferenc (2013-2014)
Since April 1, 2014, the director is Ing. Eva Tomášová The

medical directors since 1952 were:

MUDr. Andělín Feller
MUDr. Alois Pokorny
MUDr. Ladislav Hodejovsky
MUDr. Karel Kabatek
MUDr. Bohumír Štěpánek

After 1990:
MUDr. Zbysek Pospisil
MUDr. Bohumil Pavlicek, CSc.
MUDr. Leos Novotny
MUDr. Jiří Kucharský,
MD Miloslav Pink CSc.MUDr. Edita Richterová
At present, the position of Medical Director has been replaced by the position of Deputy Minister for Medical Care and has been held by the MUDr. Hana Chmelíčková.

Development of the number of beds

When it opened in 1902, the hospital had 60 beds, in 1910 already 130 beds, in 1920 152 beds and 330 beds in 1931. At present, the hospital has 552 beds.