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After 22 years at the Alsfeld district hospital, chief physician Johannes Elsing is leaving the clinic to work as an employed doctor in a general practice.
Alsfeld – 2002, the year of the Football World Cup in Japan and South Korea, the introduction of euro cash and the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. And the year in which Dr. Johannes Georg Elsing begins as senior physician in the internal clinic of the Vogelsberg district hospital in Alsfeld (KKA). After 24 years, Elsing, head physician of the internal clinic since 2021, is now looking for new challenges.
Chief physician leaves the Alsfeld district hospital – and becomes a family doctor
The district administrator and supervisory board chairman Dr. Jens Mischak, KKA managing director Volker Röhrig and the medical director, Dr. Steffen Lancee, came together to send their best wishes to the outgoing chief physician.
“In your professional career, you have borne a lot of responsibility for the health of your patients,” said Mischak. “In addition, your work has helped to shape crucial areas at the KKA over the years – in good times but also in challenging times,” he adds. A point that Managing Director Röhrig also takes up: “You are leaving a big mark here in the company, not only in your role as chief physician, but also before that, many people from the region have confided in you,” emphasizes Röhrig.
The doctor began his professional career by studying medicine in Münster, which he completed with a doctorate in 1992. After positions in Detmold and Bocholt and further training as a specialist in internal medicine in 1999, Elsing found his way to the internal medicine clinic in 2002 as a senior physician District hospital in Alsfeld, which is currently being rebuilt for almost 100 million euros.
The expert, whose additional qualifications include palliative medicine, proctology, nutritional medicine (DGEM), clinical acute and emergency medicine, was senior physician there from 2011 to 2020 before becoming chief internal physician in October 2021. And yet, “everything has its time,” Elsing puts it succinctly. From mid-April he will no longer be active as chief physician at the KKA, but will instead work as an employed doctor in a family doctor's practice. “You will continue to receive medical care and the people here in and around Alsfeld – I wish you all the best,” Managing Director Röhrig concludes. (cl)
