AWO Psychiatry Center
| AWO Psychiatry Center | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | AWO |
| place | Königslutter |
| state | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 14 '39 " N , 10 ° 48' 43" E |
| medical director | Mohammad-Zoalfikar Hasan |
| beds | 780 |
| Employee | 1300 full and part-time employees |
| areas of expertise | psychiatry |
| founding | 1865 |
| Website | www.awo-psychiatriezentrum.de |
The AWO Psychiatry Center , long form: AWO Psychiatry Center Specialist Hospital for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, is a psychiatric clinic in Königslutter am Elm in Lower Saxony . With its 1,300 employees, it is the largest employer in the Helmstedt district . Its supply area includes the cities of Braunschweig and Wolfsburg as well as four districts in Lower Saxony. It is also the largest specialty psychiatric hospital in the state.
history
In 1865 the "State Healing and Nursing Institution Königslutter" was opened in Königslutter on the former lands of the former Benedictine monastery . There were 152 beds for men and women in what was then the main building. By 1890 the hospital was expanded to 350 beds.
time of the nationalsocialism
During the National Socialist era it was a transit station for the T4 campaign . At the end of the war there was a reserve hospital and an auxiliary hospital ; there were only a few patients left with psychiatric illnesses.
post war period
In 1954 it was renamed "Lower Saxony State Hospital Königslutter". In 1969 today's "Clinic B", a 150-bed house, was built, and in 1979 today's "Clinic A". In 1982 the “Department of Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents” was opened, the following year the “Department of Social Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry ”. In 1985 the "Psychotherapy Department" was created.
On September 1, 2007, the AWO Niedersachsen gGmbH of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) took over the hospital, which has since been called the “AWO Psychiatry Center”.
Structure and data
The clinic is located on the southwest edge of Königslutter, near the Kaiserdom , on a park-like, 33-hectare site. It consists of numerous individual houses. In addition to 557 beds for inpatient treatment, there are 92 beds for semi-inpatient treatment and 91 beds in fora psychiatry . Around 8,000 patients are cared for each year; the average length of stay is 28 days.
The following six clinics, which are divided into more than 30 wards, belong to the psychiatry center:
- Clinic for General Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
- Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy
- Clinic for Geriatric Psychiatry
- Dependency Disease Clinic
- Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Forensic Psychiatry Clinic
On the clinic premises in Königslutter there is a separate nursing school and the subsidiary “AWO Psychiatrie Akademie gGmbH” for advanced training events. The subsidiary AWO Niedersachsen MVZ gGmbH operates an outpatient center with psychiatric nursing services on the premises.
The AWO Psychiatry Center operates day clinics for adults in Wolfsburg , Wolfenbüttel , Peine and Gifhorn as well as for children and adolescents in Wolfsburg and Braunschweig .
Around 1300 employees and around 100 trainees work at the AWO Psychiatry Center. In addition to Braunschweig and Wolfsburg, it supplies the districts of Gifhorn , Helmstedt , Peine and Wolfenbüttel . Around 880,000 people live in the catchment area.
Others
- The Kaiser Lothar linden tree , which was planted around the 12th century, stands on the site .
- Part of the psychiatry center is the 1.6 hectare "Berggarten", laid out in 1879.
- In 2003 a memorial for the victims of the T4 campaign was inaugurated on the edge of the mountain garden.
- In the entrance area of “Klinik A” there has been a 2.8 x 6.06 m mural by Alfred Gockel since 2010 .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ AWO PSYCHIATRIEZENTRUM - Home. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .
- ^ Environment of the AWO Psychiatry Center , accessed on July 31, 2015
- ↑ a b c d e history of the hospital , accessed July 31, 2015
- ↑ Portrait at berufsreport.com , accessed on May 15, 2017
- ↑ a b c d e portrait on the website of the AWO Psychiatriezentrum , accessed on July 31, 2015
- ↑ The AWO Psychiatry Center as an employer , accessed on July 31, 2015
- ↑ Description of the mountain garden at gaerten-parks.de , accessed on August 11, 2015
- ↑ Description of the memorial , accessed on July 31, 2015