The Viennese religious hospitals: benefit concert at MuTh

Since 2006, the “Concerts for Charity” have taken place as a result of intensive collaboration between the “Partnership for Charity” of the Vienna Order Hospitals and Franz Bartolomey, former principal cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic, who died in December 2023. In total, more than 150,000 euros were collected for aid projects at home and abroad. On Monday evening, Bartolomey’s son Matthias, himself an internationally celebrated solo cellist and professor of violoncello at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, played the concert “Happy Birthday, Anton Bruckner” with friends and colleagues at Vienna’s MuTh – in a spiritual continuation of this Cooperation. The proceeds from the hall donation will be donated by the “Partnership for Charity” (www.naechstenliebe.or.at) doubles and – as in 2023 – will benefit the neonatal intensive care unit at Cardinal Gracias Hospital in Belagavi, India. At the beginning of Advent, this commitment fits in well with a variety of other social projects run by the Viennese religious hospitals. The medical contact points for people without insurance, the Elisabeth Bread Vienna with warm food and clothing, birth offers for uninsured pregnant women and numerous fundraising campaigns “make it clear that charitable and social projects have always been part of the DNA of the Viennese religious hospitals, even during Advent “, explained Prim. Dr. Manfred Greher, MBA, spokesman for the Vienna Order Hospitals (medical director of the Sacred Heart Hospital). Photos of the event can be found at: https://www.ordensspitaeler-wien.at/galerie/.

The seven Vienna religious hospitals

“The Viennese religious hospitals are an indispensable part of health care in Vienna. With 25 percent of Vienna’s hospital beds, we were able to treat 30 percent of inpatients in 2023. A total of 440,000 people (inpatients and outpatients) visited our hospitals. We would like to thank the City of Vienna and the Vienna Health Fund for ensuring our long-term financial security in the sense of a supply partnership for the Viennese population,” said Greher.

The seven non-profit Vienna religious hospitals include the Barmfühle Brüder Hospital (1020 Vienna), the Franziskus Spital (1030 and 1050 Vienna) and the hospitals of the Vinzenz Kliniken Vienna (Herz-Jesu Hospital (1030 Vienna), Barmfühle Sisters Hospital Vienna (1060 Vienna), Orthopedic Hospital Speising (1130 Vienna), St. Josef Hospital (1130 Vienna), Divine Savior Hospital (1170 Vienna)). Together they have always been a reliable, flexible and predictable partner for the city of Vienna. What is characteristic of the houses is the combination of private sponsorship (religious orders or foundations) with a non-profit provision mandate.