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29-732: With its 981 licensed beds, Jessa Hospital is the fifth largest non-university hospital in Flanders. Besides the 3 care campuses; campus Virga Jesse on the Stadsomvaart of Hasselt, campus Salvator on Hasselt's major ring road, and the rehabilitation campus Sint-Ursula in Herk-de-Stad , a fourth logistics campus was established after the 2010 merger on the Ekkelgarden industrial estate, where the hospital's central warehouse and central sterilization department are located. The name Jessa

58-730: A cancer cooperation initiative between the Salvator Hospital of Hasselt, the Saint Jans Hospital in Genk (now Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg ) and the Virga Jesse Hospital. In the year 2000, the Virga Jesse Hospital spun off from the OCMW and became an autonomous care institution. The highest managing body of the hospital is no longer the OCMW council, but rather a general assembly and a board of directors, including

87-451: A coalition. Following the 2004 election ,     CD&V (29 seats)/     N-VA (6 seats),     sp.a /     Sociaal-Liberale Partij (25 seats) and     Open Vld (19 seats) parties formed a coalition. The composition at the end of the legislature: After the regional elections of 1999 , a coalition of VLD , SP , Agalev and the VU

116-554: A new hospital along the Thonissen Avenue. The Valentinus Hospital opens its doors 4 years later. The Valentinus Hospital slowly expanded to a total of 140 beds. However, even this capacity soon proved insufficient. The first postwar Commission of Public Assistance (the predecessor of the OCMW ) took office in 1947 and immediately made the decision in principle to build a new hospital. On 23 September 1961 then-Mayor Bollen opened

145-524: A new hospital on the current Salvator campus. The dossier for the new building was co-developed by a temporary association consisting of four partner architects: Osar, Baumschlager & Eberle, Technum and De Gregorio. The design will be a hospital with two 20-storey towers against the E313 highway in Hasselt. From the towers, patients and visitors to the hospital will have a view of Haspengouw on one side and

174-559: A new park on the Salvator Campus that runs down to Hasselt's major ring road. If financing for the project is complete, work on the new building will begin in 2023 and should be completed in 2030. The cost of the new building is estimated at 550 million euros, of which about 370 million euros will come in subsidies from the Flemish Government. Jessa Hospital has been counseling patients with HIV since 2008, and in 2019

203-478: A nursing school, Mater Salvatoris. Later, this school was transformed into the Free Technical Institute (VTI). After several renovations and expansions, the Salvator Hospital grew to become one of Limburg's largest private hospitals. A new convent building was completed in 1949 and a new wing of the hospital in 1950. From 1962 to 1964, the buildings of the new clinic were constructed. In 1974,

232-614: A representation of the political parties. The hospital builds numerous partnerships with other hospitals. On 20 June 2006 the Virga Jesse Hospital, together with the Salvator-Saint-Ursula Hospital (SASU), signed a draft agreement to merge. The merger has been a reality since 1 January 2010. The Jessa Hospital submitted a subsidy dossier to the Flemish Government in March 2013 for the construction of

261-472: A retirement home for 150 senior citizens was also opened on the Salvator Hospital campus. A student peda was also built behind the old castle park and pond. Since 1994, the new monastery complex behind it has provided a residential and care center for dementia and Alzheimer's patients. The complex includes a public chapel, a residence and rest home for the Salvatorian community of sisters and a rest home for

290-687: Is derived from the hospital's 3 care campuses: JE from Virga Jesse, S from Saint-Ursula, and SA from Salvator. The Jessa Hospital was formed on 1 January 2010 from the merger of the urban Virga Jesse Hospital and the Catholic Salvator-Saint-Ursula (SASU) hospital, with the Salvator campus on the outskirts of the city of Hasselt and the Saint-Ursula campus in Herk-de-Stad . In 1924, the Salvator Clinic opened on

319-490: The Belgian province of Limburg . On 1 January 2018, Herk-de-Stad had a total population of 12,661. The total area is 42.83 km which gives a population density of 296 inhabitants per km . Besides the village of Herk-de-Stad itself, the municipality contains the communities of Berbroek, Schulen and Donk. Donk contains two country houses, both of the eighteenth-century, Kasteel Hamont and Kasteel Landwijk, which stands on

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348-651: The Jambon Government following the 2024 Belgian federal election and again consisted of three parties, together having a narrow majority of 65 seats out of 124 seats total. The     N-VA (31 seats) and     CD&V (16 seats) were already part of the outgoing coalition, with     Vooruit (18 seats) now replacing the Open Vld . Following the 7 June 2009 election ,   CD&V (31 seats),   N-VA (16 seats) and   SP.A (19 seats) parties formed

377-581: The Minister-President and accountable to the Flemish Parliament , and the public administration (civil service) divided into 13 policy areas, each with an executive department and multiple agencies. The Flemish Government cabinet consists of up to a maximum of eleven ministers, chosen by the Flemish Parliament . At least one minister must come from Brussels . The ministers are drawn from the political parties which, in practice, form

406-659: The Saint-Francis Hospital in Heusden-Zolder , and the AZ Vesalius in Tongeren . The hospital network covers a population of 530.000 people in the province of Limburg. Herk-de-Stad Herk-de-Stad ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɛr(ə)ɡ də ˈstɑt] ; French : Herck-la-Ville , French pronunciation: [ɛʁk la vil] ) is a city and municipality located in

435-674: The governing coalition . The Government is chaired by the Flemish Minister-President . Ministers head executive departments of the government administration. Ministers must defend their policies and performance in person before the Flemish Parliament. The Flemish Government must receive and keep the confidence of the Flemish Parliament. Until 1993 the Flemish Government was called the Flemish Executive ( Vlaamse Executieve ). The coalition replaced

464-553: The C.A.Z. Midden-Limburg would become the second largest hospital in the province of Limburg in 2001. With the merger, the capacity would be over 663 beds, 1,200 employees and 160 physician-specialists. Later, in 2009, the merger with the Sint-Franciscusziekenhuis was dissolved and the hospital reverted back to the name of Salvator-Saint-Ursula (SASU) Hospital. In January 2010, the SASU Hospital merged with

493-615: The Flemish public administration are now organised in 13 policy areas. Each policy area comprises a department and a number of (semi-) independent government agencies. Only those with their own article are mentioned below. The 11 policy areas are: Several other institutes, such as the Flemish Opera and the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), were not incorporated into the above structure. Every year,

522-659: The Luikersteenweg in Hasselt, founded by Salvatorian nuns. This clinic was the first acute private hospital in the Belgian province of Limburg. As the property of the Salvatorian Sisters, a private hospital was established in 1926 on the estate of the Castle 't Hollandt in Hasselt, which would later be expanded to become the Salvator Hospital. In 1931, the Salvator Hospital was further expanded to also include

551-706: The Minister-President presents the current state of affairs in Flanders and the Government's plans for next year during the September Declaration on the fourth Monday in September. 2018 Flemish budget The below figures use the 2018 budget as example, which had €44.7 billion in expenses and €42.3 billion in revenue. The revenue comes from the following sources: The expenses are as follows per policy area: The Flemish Government owns

580-466: The Salvator Hospital, the hospital began to focus more and more on rehabilitation. On 28 May 1626 three nuns moved into a building on Hasselt's Thonissen Avenue to care for the sick of Hasselt and the surrounding area. The building was a gift from the city magistrate, but soon proved too small. Without realizing it, the three nuns lay the foundation of what will be a large and modern hospital almost four hundred years later. In 1868, construction begins for

609-592: The Skids , Barkmarket , and Godflesh . This Belgian Limburg location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Flemish Government The Flemish Government ( Dutch : Vlaamse regering [ˌvlaːmsə rəˈɣeːrɪŋ] ) is the executive branch of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region of Belgium . It consists of a government cabinet, headed by

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638-609: The Virga Jessa Hospital to form today's Jessa Hospital. The Saint-Ursula Hospital was founded in the 1950s by the Ursulines of the Ursuline Convent in Herk-de-Stad , after the convent had already served as a Red Cross post during both World War I and World War II . In 1996, the hospital merged with the Salvator Hospital in Hasselt to form the Salvator-Saint-Ursula Hospital (SASU). After the merger with

667-511: The Virga Jesse Hospital. The new hospital is dedicated to Our Lady Virga Jesse, the patroness of Hasselt. In 1965 the construction of two additional 7-storey wings began so that the total bed capacity expanded to over 600 beds. From the 1990s, the hospital evolved rapidly. On 17 March 1995 the Limburg Oncological Center (LOC) officially opened its doors in the hospital's new L-wing. The LOC was founded three years earlier as

696-898: The White Sisters of Africa. In 1996, the Salvator Hospital merged with the Saint-Ursula Hospital in Herk-de-Stad. In January 2001, the Sint-Franciscusziekenhuis of Heusden-Zolder and the hospitals AZ Salvator-Saint-Ursula with campuses in Hasselt and Herk-de-Stad announced that they had concluded a merger agreement and would henceforth be called the Christian General Hospital Mid-Limburg (Dutch: Christelijk Algemeen Ziekenhuis Midden-Limburg or C.A.Z. Midden-Limburg ). According to then chairman Karel Peeters,

725-488: The first direct elections for the Flemish Parliament), a coalition of CVP and SP was formed. The Flemish administration (Dutch: Vlaamse overheid ) denotes the Flemish civil service . With the 2006 reform program Better Administrative Policy (Dutch: Beter Bestuurlijk Beleid ), the Flemish civil service is designed to make the Flemish public administration more efficient and transparent. The tasks of

754-608: The government recognized the hospital as an HIV reference center. The HIV reference center is headed by Prof. Dr. Peter Messiaen, head of service and infectiologist-internist. Since 2019, the Jessa Hospital is part of the hospital network Andreaz, formerly known as the hospital network South-West Limburg (Dutch: Ziekenhuisnetwerk Zuid-West Limburg ), together with the Sint-Trudo Hospital in Sint-Truiden ,

783-467: The rights to Flanders Today , an English-speaking online and print newspaper focused on current affairs in Flanders and Brussels. The project was launched in 2007 by Geert Bourgeois – then Minister of Foreign Affairs and Tourism -, for three main reasons: In May 2017, the Flemish Government announced it would not be rebidding the Flanders Today project. Both the print and the online version of

812-628: The site of a castle established in the 12th century. There is an annual rock festival in the village, Rock Herk. There is a balanced mix of techno, drum 'n bass, electronica, alternative rock, post-rock, punk-rock, hardcore punk, metal, stoner, rock 'n roll, and related genres. Bands that played in the past include Stretch Arm Strong , Isis , Explosions in the Sky , New Wet Kojak , Karate , Add N to (X) , Thin White Rope , Swervedriver , Spiritualized , Cosmic Psychos , Slapshot , Southern Culture on

841-408: Was formed with Patrick Dewael (VLD) as Minister-President. After the federal elections of June 2003 , Patrick Dewael resigned as Minister-President and went to the federal political level. He was succeeded by Bart Somers as Flemish Minister-President until the end of term in 2004. Due to changes in political parties, the coalition was different: After the regional elections of 1995 (which were

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