City Hospital №40

The hospital traces its history back to 1748, when a 50-bed infirmary was founded at Sestroretsk armory. Although the more detailed history can be revealed so far since the beginning of the 20th century.

After the Russian Civil War (1917–1923) the hospital was headed by Sergey Yul’evich Malevskiy (1869—1934). He was a talented Russian surgeon who intensively operated, stayed with severe patients after midnight, spent his scanty means on purchasing surgical instruments, medications and food. Almost all residents of Sestroretsk gathered to pay their last tribute to Sergey Yul’evich. The restoration of the hospital after the Second World War devastation was conducted by the Chief physician Nikolay Evgen’evich Slupskiy (1899–1964). He was an outstanding person who served as a prototype for heroes of Yuriy German novels “My dear man”, “The cause you serve”, “Hello, doctor”, and the tale “The story of doctor Nikolay Evgen’evich”.

From the middle of 1960s the hospital began to expand. The new buildings for pediatric, pulmonological, surgical, and Internal medicine services had been being constructed. The first in Leningrad specialized proctological unit was opened. The hospital capacity had increased up to 680 beds. On the 11th of May 1974 on the basis of hospital, it was opened the first in the Soviet Union in-patient 520-bed rehabilitation center. For 35 years of this center existence, more than 250 thousand patients have received rehabilitation treatment in it. Since November 2005 the hospital has been headed by professor Sergey Grigor’evich Scherbak.

Today

At the present time the hospital has the units in service in following specialties: anesthesiology and resuscitation, intensive care, neurology, vascular surgery, orthopedics, traumatology, coloproctology, gynecology, rehabilitation, physical methods of treatment, and some others. Annually 20 thousand patients receive the in-patient treatment in the hospital. The hospital possesses modern diagnostic and treatment modalities including X-ray and magnetic resonance computed tomography, and a series of high-tech devices such as the assisting robot for rehabilitation of patients after stroke or spinal cord injury, cardiac shock wave therapy for treatment angina resistant to medications, transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment the patients with stroke and head injury.

The results of treatment and diagnostic activities have been analyzed and summarized. Since 2010 the hospital has published its yearbook included the scientific works of hospital’s physicians for that year. The table of contents and chapter’s abstracts both in Russian and English are freely available at the hospital web site.

(From Wikipedia "City hospital No 40, Saint Petersburg, Russia")