Zilveren Kruis (Silver Cross) is a Dutch health insurance company, based in Leiden , which was founded in 1949. It is part of the Achmea group which was created in 1995 when it merged with the Avéro-Centraal Beheer Group .
6-808: The Ziekenhuis Sint Jansdal , in Harderwijk , warned patients with the company's Basic Budget policy at the end of 2016 that their care was not covered after the bankruptcy of the MC IJsselmeer hospital in Lelystad . In December 2018 Bruno Bruins announced that it had been agreed that they would be covered. It was warned by the Dutch Healthcare Authority in November 2018 about changes to policies introduced retrospectively in January 2018. In December 2018 more than
12-402: A hundred general practitioners refused to renew their contracts with the company because of a dispute over rates and conditions. This Dutch corporation or company article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Harderwijk Harderwijk ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˌɦɑrdərˈʋɛik] ; Dutch Low Saxon : Harderwiek ) is a municipality and city of
18-698: The IJsselmeer ) and consequently its economy was strongly based on fishing and seafaring in general. That dramatically changed after 1932, when the Zuiderzee was cut off from the North Sea for safety reasons. Few fishing boats thus now remain in the Harbour, which now is home mainly to yachts. An annual event illustrating the former importance of the fishing industry to Harderwijk is Aaltjesdag , which translates to Eel day . Fish can still be bought at stands and restaurants on
24-521: The Netherlands . It is served by the Harderwijk railway station . Its population centres are Harderwijk and Hierden . Harderwijk is on the western boundary of the Veluwe . The southeastern half of the municipality is largely forests. Harderwijk received city rights from Count Otto II of Guelders in 1231. A defensive wall surrounding the city was completed by the end of that century. The oldest part of
30-639: The Vischpoort (Fish Gate). Between 1648 and 1811, the University of Harderwijk operated in the city. The Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, Carl Linnaeus graduated at this university. The university, together with the universities of Zutphen and Franeker , was abolished by Napoleon . Harderwijk was a member of the Hanseatic League . It lies on what used to be the Zuiderzee shore (Southern Sea, now
36-478: The city is near where the streets Hoogstraat and Grote Poortstraat now are. Around 1315 the city was expanded southwards, which included the construction of what is now called the Grote Kerk (Great Church). A second, northward expansion took place around 1425. Particularly along the west side of town, much of the wall still exists but often not in entirely original form. That also goes for the only remaining city gate,
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