Alexian Hospital Aachen
| Alexian Hospital Aachen | |
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| Sponsorship | Alexian Brothers Foundation |
| place | Aachen |
| state | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 46 '20 " N , 6 ° 4' 55" E |
| management | Martin Minten (Regional Managing Director ) Michael Paulzen (Medical Director) Stefan Stark (Nursing Director) Jürgen Amberg (Director Housing and Employment Association) Birgit Nievelstein (Director Housing Department) |
| beds | 270 |
| Employee | about 800 |
| areas of expertise | Psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics |
| Affiliation | Alexianer GmbH |
| founding | Mid 17th century |
| Website | https://www.alexianer-aachen.de/unternehmen/ |
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The Alexian Hospital Aachen is a specialist hospital for psychiatry , psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine at Alexianergraben in Aachen and was mid-17th century in the local Alexianerkloster Aachen from the Congregation of Alexian Brothers established. It has been operated by Alexianer GmbH since 2008 and is sponsored by the “Foundation of the Alexian Brothers”. In 2020, the hospital will have around 270 inpatient and semi-inpatient places and around 800 employees. It is affiliated with the “Alexianer Living and Employment Association” with around 120 beds in six residential facilities and the “Pia causa - Center for Outpatient Services” as an outpatient care service .
history
In 1334, some members of the Begarden from Cologne, a Catholic religious order for lay brothers in nursing , founded a branch on a property directly outside the city wall of Aachen near the Scherptor gate at that time , from which the Aachen Alexian Order developed in 1477. Like the religious order in Cologne, he was exclusively responsible for the care of sick and handicapped people and, after the plague receded and after the end of the Thirty Years' War, took on new tasks with the care of mentally ill people from around the middle of the 17th century, which led to the emergence the first mental hospital led.
Inpatient accommodation and treatment initially took place in the expanded premises of the monastery and these could be expanded in 1888 with the new "Quirinus Building" on the south side of the main building and in 1896 with the addition of another hospital wing. In addition, other buildings in the area were acquired for hospital operations, such as the Moirke community center, which was used as a production hall by the neighboring Nellessen cloth factory until the 1920s . In addition, rooms and houses in the Aachen area have recently been added, in which social stations and residential complexes for mentally disabled people have been set up.
Medical skills
Hospital departments
The specialist hospital is divided into four departments for general psychiatry , geriatric psychiatry, psychotherapy and addiction medicine with ten specialized wards and four day clinics as well as an outpatient department. In these departments, various psychotherapeutic procedures adapted to the needs of the respective patient and, if required, psychopharmacotherapy , occupational therapy , music therapy , physiotherapy and work therapy are offered.
Since 2018, the "Medical Center for adults with intellectual disabilities or severe multiple disabilities " for people from the city of Aachen and the Aachen city region as well as from the districts of Düren and Heinsberg has been connected to the aforementioned departments , where complex disorders or interactions of the various impairments are treated can.
Residential facilities
In six residential facilities with three to four residential groups of six to eight people each, the Alexians offer a family atmosphere in which those affected are enabled to live with the greatest possible self-determination through individual help. This includes the participation in offers in the area as well as independently organized leisure and social offers. The individual facilities in 2020 include:
- “Haus Martin” in the city center with 24 living spaces in three residential groups for people with a mental disability and / or an addiction.
- "Haus Katharina" in Aachen's northern district with twelve living spaces for people with mental disabilities.
- "Haus Michael" also in the north quarter with twelve living spaces for people with mental and complex multiple disabilities.
- “Haus Augustinus” in Walheim with 24 living spaces in three living groups for people with mental disabilities.
- “Maria Haus” in the Aachen-Hanbruch district with 24 living spaces in four residential groups for people with mental disabilities. Connected to this is an organic farm , where people with disabilities can test their skills and abilities in gardening and landscaping, vegetable growing, in the organic shop, in handicrafts and in housekeeping with regular daily structures.
- “Haus Barbara” in Alsdorf with 24 living spaces in four residential groups for people with mental and complex multiple disabilities.
Pia causa - center for outpatient services
In the “Pia causa” area, all measures are summarized that deal with outpatient care, everyday support, outpatient psychiatric and geriatric psychiatric care as well as outpatient assisted living.
The aim of outpatient psychiatric care, a special form of home care, should be to help people with a short-term mental illness or in emotional distress and to avoid hospital stays or shorten them if necessary.
With outpatient assisted living, the Alexianer Hospital offers assistance for people with disabilities or in particular social difficulties, in order to enable them to live largely independently in their own apartment and in the social room. These measures can be used by the "pia causa" in the whole of Aachen and in the Aachen city region as well as in the districts of Heinsberg and Düren.
Other collaborations (selection)
The Alexianer Hospital is involved in several campaigns that provide several offers for the integration of mentally ill people or people with mental disabilities into public life on the premises or in the vicinity of the headquarters as well as in the various districts of Aachen. These include:
- The “residential hotel” with its 17 places as an integration offer for mentally ill people living in Aachen without a permanent residence, which is operated by Alexianer GmbH with the city of Aachen as an urban transitional facility.
- The "St. Alexius Stube ”, which offers people in need with an authorization card the opportunity to use the warming room and soup kitchen or to receive a sandwich package there.
- The “clothing store” in the Alexianer Hospital in Aachen, which citizens in need and hospital patients who do not have adequate clothing can visit.
- The "Café Kontakt", a public café for clients, patients, relatives, visitors and external guests, in which people with mental disabilities are given the opportunity to participate in working life in society and through their work in the café as part of work therapy, their ability to exercise under supervision able to develop qualified specialists.
- The “Kunstvoll sales atelier”, where handcrafted works of art and high-quality handicraft products can be purchased under the brand name “Alaixart”, which have been made by mentally impaired people as part of a day-structuring measure or as part of outpatient work therapy.
- The "job placement" in cooperation with the job center of the employment office , in which, on the one hand, the Alexianer Hospital provides people with disabilities with integration jobs in various areas that are subject to social security contributions, or additional income jobs for people with disabilities with reduced performance in the context of marginal employment in their own house or on the other hand With a disability or with multiple placement obstacles placed in jobs that are subject to social insurance contributions in the primary labor market through suitable care measures.
- The "Radio @m Alex", a local station on the Internet, where, under professional guidance, around 20 people are given the opportunity to create radio programs with individual, meaningful and targeted employment and development opportunities as part of their social reintegration. As a project with a social and local radio-specific character, “Radio @m Alex” received the “Presse Ente” award from the Aachen Press District Association in the German Association of Journalists (DJV) in 2013 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexianer: More than clothing, bread distribution and soup kitchen , in: Aachener Zeitung from June 1, 2017
- ↑ Katrin Haas: Café Kontakt builds on old tradition , in: Aachener Zeitung from May 6, 2012
- ↑ Alaixart - Inclusion through arts and crafts , information page of the Alexianer GmbH
- ↑ Homepage Radio @m Alex
