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Corporate Social Responsibility: We care
In our capacity as a hospital with Christian tradition, it is our
primary concern to offer help to disadvantaged people in our society, even
beyond our legal care obligations – at least where our resources enable us to
do so.
The Orthopaedic Hospital Vienna-Speising is therefore committed among others
to the following selected social projects:
Allianz für Kinder ("Childrens alliance")
The association “Allianz für Kinder”yearly invites about 100 young patients –
mainly from Albania, Moldova, Afghanistan and Kosovo – to come to Austria to
have life-saving surgeries. Every tenth these patients will be under
physicians care at Orthopaedic Hospital Vienna-Speising.
Fund “Mobility as a gift for children”
Medical director Prof. Dr. Franz Grill has initiated a fund for children to pay
walking frames and, if necessary, clothes and shoes for sick children in
need.
Doctors for disabled
Within the scope of this international aid organisation, our doctors Wurnig,
Radler, Riedl and some anaesthesists care for patients in Ghana and Mali and
transfer state-of-the-art medical know-how to health care professionals and
physicians on site (e.g. promotion of the Ponseti Method for the treatment of
clubfoot). During their stays abroad, physicians are exempt from service and
receive supplementary donations and necessary medical equipment for their
journey.
Neuro-orthopaedic care
Gaining good life quality in spite of incurable paralysis is the aim
of neuro-orthopaedic treatment. The neuro-orthopaedic team (Dr. Walter
Strobl, Dr. Alexander Krebs and Dr. Robert Csepan) yearly cares for
roughly 200 disabled patients in 28 institutions all over Austria.
Regular supply of aids and appliances, planning of mobility programmes and
intensive rehabilitation, partially with minimal-invasive or reconstructive
surgeries, help to reach the target. The team regularly organises Austrian and
international further educational events and leads the first European
university course in “Neuro-orthopaedics – Disability Management” in Speising
since 2009.
School at hospital
For more than 90 years, the Orthopaedic Hospital Vienna-Speising has been
offering a school for children which enables to them to attend regular school
classes during their hospitalisation. Teachers are appointed by the City of
Vienna within the scope of “Wiener Heilstättenschule”.
Partnership for charity
Orthopaedic Hospital Vienna-Speising is a partner of this campaign of the
Religious Hospitals of Vienna. Within the scope of “Partnership for charity”,
financial donations are collected for social projects by benefit events and
concerts, e.g. for the project “YoungMum” – Assistance for pregnant
teenagers.
For further information about Corporate Social Responsibility at
Orthopaedic Hospital Vienna-Speising, please contact Dr. Pierre Saffarnia (Head of Public
Relations).
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