LKH Weiz becomes a trauma center: Orthopedics will be available around the clock in the future!

LKH Weiz becomes a trauma center: Orthopedics will be available around the clock in the future!

A significant change is coming to the LKH Weiz. From October 1, 2025, the hospital will operate as a regional trauma center and introduce a new orthopedics and traumatology department. Wolfgang Köle, the medical director of the LKH-Univ hospital network. Klinikum Graz, confirmed that the orthopedic traumatology outpatient clinic will remain open around the clock in the future orf.at reported. This realignment is part of a previously planned concept by the KAGes, which was developed in the course of establishing the hospital network with the Graz University Hospital.

The background to this structural change is the upcoming retirement of the previous head of the surgical department, who worked as a general and trauma surgeon. The KAGes explained that due to this change, the two disciplines can no longer be covered at the location in the future. The transition phase will begin in the summer, in which the surgical department will be transferred to the new orthopedic-traumatology department. Patients who require general surgical services will in future be treated at the Graz University Hospital or the hospital in Feldbach.

Medical excellence at the LKH Weiz

In addition to the realignment in surgery, the LKH Weiz will continue to be a center for internal medicine. The most modern diagnostic tools are used to detect and treat diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, digestive problems, infectious diseases and kidney diseases. All therapies aim to restore and stabilize the patient's vital functions, as it were lkh-weiz.at is described.