JÓSA ANDRÁS HOSPITAL

Szabolcs-Szatmár Bereg  County with its 572.000 population is the third biggest region in the north-east of Hungary.
Jósa András Teaching Hospital was founded in 1899 and since then it has become the biggest hospital of the region providing the most complex provision of services.

Our hospitals basic provisions:

- adult and children, active and chronic, out-patient and in-patient services
- rehabilitation, developing and teaching activities, follow-up care;
- physician and specialist education;
- research

Our hospital is a teaching hospital of the University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Centre Health College Faculty and of the Zay Anna Secondary School and Medical Vocational School.

We give provide the following:
1. primary care for 300,000 inhabitants
2. specialized care for 600,000 inhabitants
3. serve as the regional centre Oncological Radiology

The mission of the hospital is to provide wide-ranging services in the fields of medical treatment and nursing, and to meet the highest quality standards and ethical expectations in the interest of the patient satisfaction.

We keep current with the changes in medical treatment and prevention by introducing modern diagnostical treatments like ultrasound nephrotomy, laparoscopic gall bladder surgery, laser eye surgery, artificial intraocular lens implantation, hand surgery, plastic surgery, CT, MR, etc.
Hungary’s largest Trauma Department can be found in our hospital.
In the Maternity Ward we provide the opportunity for mothers to give birth in the presence of the fathers and there are other alternative delivery possibilities also.
In the Ear-Nose and Throat Department we provide head – neck surgery, in the Oncological Radiology Department the patients get radiation therapy with the most modern equipment.
The main areas of the Orthopedic Department are knee and hip prosthesis surgery and spine-stabilizing surgery.
We provide Physiotherapy and dietetics, rehabilitation, Pulmonology, children and adult psychiatry, and speech therapy to meet the needs of our patients and community.
There is a Social Office in our hospital and we can help with solve many of the health related social problems as well.  In addition, the mental hygiene and assistance from priests as well as voluntary service from Kamilianus families assist our work.

 

 

HISTORY

The hospital was founded in 1899 by Jósa András. He was not only the director of the hospital in Nagykálló but he was an archaeologist and a journalist too. Andras was 26 when he started his medical education in Vienna and after completing his medical education he devoted his life to medical sciences and to the improving the regions underdeveloped public health services.
The name of the hospital was Erzsébet Public Hospital. Within 16 years it became a famous hospital with 260 beds. During the following years more and more patients wanted to be treated in this hospital and it resulted that the hospital became so very congested that it was not unusual that two or three patients used the same bed at the same time. This was the reason that new wings were added to the original building. Before the World War II in the departments of Casualty and Surgery, Internal Medicine, Dermatology, Ophthalmology Maternity Ward, and Paediatrics there were 600 beds for patients.
In 1967 together with the TB Clinic in Sóstó and with the Out-patient Clinic the complex hospital and clinic took the name of its founder Jósa András.
The hospital is still developing. New buildings are being built and today the hospital with its 1869 beds is one of the biggest hospitals in the country with 31 clinical and 4 diagnostic wards to serve in the recovery of the patients.