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Complex High Quality
Care, and a Sneak Peak
of the Future With
Robotic Surgery.
This Is the Havířov Hospital’s New Vision
The hospital in Havířov has been blossoming in the last few years under the leadership
of Norbert Schellong. It has also begun rivaling and even surpassing hospitals not only
regionally, but also country wide, in the quality of care, approach to, for example, pediatric
patients, equipment and openness to innovation. We spoke to Mr. Schellong himself about
how he managed to turn the region’s most unprofitable hospital into a cutting edge medical
facility and what the Havířov hospital has in store for the future.
You have been at the head of the Havířov hospital
for four years now, how would you evaluate your
time spent in this position?
I joined the hospital in 2019, back when the hospital
was the Moravian-Silesian region’s least profitable
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hospital, with a cumulative debt of a quarter of
a million CZK. I presented the selection committee
with my vision for development, and we have been
following it for the past four years. The Haví řov
hospital had a wide spectrum of fields that required