District clinics in Swabia
| District clinics in Swabia | |
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| place | augsburg |
| state | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 23 '13 " N , 10 ° 49' 53" E |
| CEO | Thomas Düll |
| beds | 1525 |
| Employee | 4,250 |
| Website | www.bezirkskliniken-schwaben.de |
The Schwaben District Clinics , based in Augsburg, is a hospital group. Their houses care for more than 60,000 patients annually with more than 3,300 employees, around 20,500 of them inpatients. The district clinics offer psychiatric, neurological and neurosurgical care at seven locations in Bavarian Swabia. The area living and promoting with psychiatric-therapeutic nursing homes, day care centers and outpatient assisted living offers day structuring and support for mentally in need of care or disabled people. In 2012 (2009) the company generated around 196.5 (174.2) million euros. The company's clinics have a total of 1,718 beds .
The district clinics of Swabia were converted from an in-house operation to a municipal company ( institution under public law ) in the Swabia district on January 1, 2008 as part of a change in legal form .
History of inpatient psychiatry in the Swabian district
The history of inpatient psychiatry in Swabia begins with the opening of the Swabian District Insane Asylum in the former Benedictine monastery Irsee on September 1, 1849. It soon became apparent that this hospital, which was then responsible for all of Swabia, was so overcrowded that a new clinic was planned. On August 1, 1876, the district sanatorium and nursing home was inaugurated near Kaufbeuren . In the 50 years that followed, Kaufbeuren provided a great deal of impetus for the development of inpatient psychiatry: at that time, it introduced the no-restraint system that came from England, thus endeavoring to abolish coercive measures and later an open door policy with The aim is to let normality and humanity move into the hospital. The introduction of occupational therapy and so-called open care , i.e. the focus on outpatient treatment of the sick, characterize the development in the first three decades of the 20th century. In 1915 the Günzburg sanatorium was opened with initially 15 male patients from Kaufbeuren.
The time of National Socialism was also a dark chapter for the clinics in Günzburg and the Kaufbeuren-Irsee sanatorium . The first scheduled patient transfer from other institutions to Günzburg for further transfer to killing centers is documented for September 1939. This is how the T4 campaign in Günzburg begins . From November 1943 onwards, Günzburg was used by the Augsburg hospital as an alternative hospital. After all patients at the Günzburg sanatorium and nursing home had been transferred to the Kaufbeuren asylum at the turn of the year 1943/44, the entire capacity of Günzburg was used by the Augsburg hospital for patient care. As part of the National Socialist euthanasia program , 685 patients from Kaufbeuren were sent to so-called extermination clinics under the direction of Valentin Faltlhauser to be killed there. 1573 people were killed in Kaufbeuren between 1940 and the end of the war. On the grounds of the Swabian Education Center in Irsee Abbey and on the grounds of the Kaufbeuren and Günzburg district hospitals, there are memorials that commemorate this time, and documentation about the events of this time has also been published. The Irsee Department for the Mentally Ill was dissolved in 1972. In 1975 an inquiry report on the state of psychiatry was published on behalf of the federal government . This report recorded the guidelines for a comprehensive reform of psychiatric care, which began in Bavaria in 1980 with the publication of the first state plan for psychiatry.
In the 1980s there were still almost 1,000 beds in Günzburg and Kaufbeuren, half of which were occupied by so-called long-term patients, i.e. people who lived permanently in the hospital. This situation changed fundamentally in the following years. For almost 500 long-term patients, life options were found in the form of individually assisted living, shared apartments, family care and sometimes also in homes outside the hospital. Nobody should be in the hospital for a long time, let alone live there. The priority of outpatient assistance over inpatient assistance was the guiding principle behind the establishment of an outpatient network of assistance offers in the region. In the following years, with the opening of the district hospitals Kempten (1986), Augsburg (1989), Memmingen (1995) and the Lindau day clinic (1999), the establishment of local patient care was initiated.
Overview of locations and range of services
- District Hospital Augsburg - Clinic for Psychiatry , Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics , Academic Teaching Hospital of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich with 362 beds, 32 day clinic places, five specialized outpatient departments, emergency department, consulting service at the Augsburg Clinic . Among other things, there is a clinic for addicts of illegal drugs with inpatient, semi-inpatient and outpatient services on the premises.
- District Hospital Günzburg - Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics with 332 beds and 2 semi-inpatient places, Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy with 85 treatment places, Clinic for Neurosurgery with 52 beds, Clinic for Neurology and Neurological Rehabilitation with 59 beds. Departments or sections for neuroanesthesia, neuropathology, neuroradiology and geriatric psychiatry. The clinics for psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychosomatics and neurosurgery with the neuroradiology section are also clinics for the Ulm University Hospital with tasks in university research and teaching.
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Donau-Ries Clinic - Department of the Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics of the Günzburg District Hospital with 18 beds in the crisis intervention ward, 18 places in the day clinic and outpatient department. The department is spatially integrated into the local Donau-Ries Clinic .
- District Hospital Kaufbeuren - Clinic for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics with 220 fully inpatient and 20 partial inpatient treatment places, clinic for forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy with 150 treatment places, clinic for neurology with 44 beds (incl. 6 beds stroke unit and 2 beds for early rehabilitation) and 3 part inpatients day clinic places. Centers for geriatric psychiatry , addiction medicine and curative education
- District Hospital Kempten - Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Ulm with 120 beds, 35 semi-inpatient places, institute outpatient department. A so-called memory clinic (memory consultation hour) offers support for people over 50 with memory problems or orientation difficulties including neuropsychological diagnostics. There is also a psychotherapeutic department, a department for addiction medicine and general psychiatry as well as a large institute outpatient department.
- District hospital Memmingen - Clinic for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics with 40 beds, twelve day clinic places and institute outpatient department. The clinic is spatially integrated into the Memmingen Clinic, where it takes on, for example, psycho-oncological care for patients in the breast, intestinal and prostate center and the palliative care unit.
- Day clinic Lindau - 20 treatment places for people with various psychiatric illnesses, as an alternative or supplement to a fully inpatient clinic treatment, also as a stabilizing follow-up treatment. Opened in 1999. Organizationally it belongs to the BKH Kempten.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ District clinics Swabia: company management. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Key figures
- ↑ http://www.kloster-irsee.de
- ↑ a b History of the Kaufbeuren district hospital
- ↑ http://www.bkh-kaufbeuren.de
- ^ Michael von Cranach : Psychiatry in the time of National Socialism. Schwabenakademie, Irsee 1990.
- ^ History of the BKH Günzburg ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ bkh-kempten.de
