City hospital No 40, Saint Petersburg, Russia

The Saint Petersburg State Health Care Establishment the City Hospital No 40 of the Resort District
Saint Petersburg City Government Health Care Committee
Rehabilitation Center of the City Hospital No 40 of Saint Petersburg, Russia
Geography
Location	Sestroretsk, Kurortniy District, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Organisation
Funding	Public hospital
Hospital type	District
Services
Beds	1000+
Helipad	No
History
Founded	1740
Links
Website	www.gb40.ru

The City Hospital No 40 of Saint Petersburg, Russia, belongs to the largest health care facilities (more than 1000 beds) for delivering in-patient definitive and specialized medical care in North West Russia. The official name is The Saint Petersburg State Health Care Establishment the City Hospital No 40 of the Resort District. The Hospital is situated within the boundaries of the city of Sestroretsk.

The hospital traces its history back to 1748, when a 50-bed infirmary was founded at Sestroretsk armory. Its more detailed history is clearer from the beginning of the 20th century.After the Russian Civil War (1917–1923) the hospital was headed by Sergey Yul’evich Malevskiy (1869—1934). He was a talented Russian surgeon who intensively operated, stayed with severe patients after midnight, spent his scanty means on purchasing surgical instruments, medications and food. Almost all residents of Sestroretsk gathered to pay their last tribute to Sergey Yul’evich. The restoration of the hospital after the Second World War devastation was conducted by the Chief physician Nikolay Evgen’evich Slupskiy (1899–1964). He was an outstanding person who served as a prototype for heroes of Yuriy German novels “My dear man”, “The cause you serve”, “Hello, doctor”, and the tale “The story of doctor Nikolay Evgen’evich”. From the middle of the 1960s, the hospital began to expand. New buildings for pediatric, pulmonological, surgical, and Internal medicine services were constructed. The first specialized proctological unit was opened in Leningrad. Hospital capacity was increased up to 680 beds. On 11 May 1974 on the site of the hospital, the first in-patient 520-bed rehabilitation centerin the Soviet Union was opened. In 35 years of this center's existence, more than 250,000 patients have received rehabilitation treatment in it. Since November 2005 the hospital has been headed by professor Sergey Grigor’evich Scherbak.