Illness	Number of cases
Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.10)	263
Inguinal hernia - Unilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.90)	213
Diverticular disease of intestine - Diverticulitis of large intestine without perforation or abscess without bleeding (K57.32)	73
Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction (K80.00)	72
Inguinal hernia - Bilateral inguinal hernia without obstruction or gangrene not specified as recurrent (K40.20)	71
Acute appendicitis - Acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis without perforation or gangrene (K35.30)	62
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia without obstruction or gangrene (K42.9)	55
Malignant neoplasm of rectum (C20)	53
Umbilical hernia - Umbilical hernia with obstruction without gangrene (K42.0)	49
Pilonidal cyst (L05.9)	45

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical removal of the gall bladder (5-511.11)	395
Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia (5-530.31)	261
Intensive care monitoring of respiration, the heart and the circulation without measurement of the pressure in the pulmonary artery and in the right atrium of the heart (8-930)	191
(9-984.7)	185
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.13)	161
Surgical removal of the appendix - appendicectomy (5-470.11)	158
(9-984.8)	153
Operation using a surgical robot (5-987.0)	134
(8-98f.0)	107
Type of material used for tissue replacement and tissue reinforcement (5-932.14)	103

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1500

Type of specialist department

Main Department

Hospital information and services for all specialist departments

Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

Quality of participation in the Disease Management Programme (DMP)
No participation

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)

No.	Explanation
CQ01	Die Erhebung und Auswertung der Daten ist Grundlage für die Anerkennung als Gefäßzentrum.

Further training
pursuant to Article 136b, para. 1, sentence 1, no. 1 of the SGB

Number	Group
99	Medical specialists (m/f) , psychological psychotherapists (m/f) and child and adolescent psychotherapists (m/f) who are subject to the obligation to undergo further training*
78	Number of medical specialists (m/f) from no. 1 who have completed a five-year period of further training and are therefore subject to the obligation to provide evidence
72	Number of those persons from no. 2 who have provided proof of further training according to Article 3 of the G-BA regulations

* according to the “Provisions of the Joint Federal Committee for the Further Training of Medical Specialists (m/f), Psychological Psychotherapists (m/f) and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (m/f) in Hospitals”

Accessibility

Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	Teilnahme an Mondafis und PRODAST
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Farmulaturen sowie das PJ werden als Klinikzentrum Westerstede angeboten. Weitere Informationen: http://klinikzentrum-westerstede.de/pj-ak/kw_klinikzentrum.php

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	Praktische Ausbildung in Kooperation mit umliegenden Fachschulen.
HB16	Dietician (m/f)
HB10	Midwife (m/f)	Dualer Studiengang
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)	Praktische Ausbildung in Kooperation mit der MTA-Schule Oldenburg und der Hanze-Universität Groningen.
HB19	Nursing professionals	Ausbildung möglich im Ammerländer Ausbildungszentrum für Gesundheitsberufe (AAfG). Das AAfG befindet sich auf dem Gelände der Klinik und wird zusammen mit der Karl-Jaspers-Klinik betrieben. Weitere Infos: http://www.ammerlaender-ausbildungszentrum.de/
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)	Im Rahmen eines Praktikums
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB09	Speech therapist (m/f)	Im Rahmen eines Praktikums
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)	Im Rahmen eines Praktikums
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)