Federal Association of Children's Hospice
| Federal Association of Children's Hospices V. (BVKH) |
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| legal form | registered association |
| Seat | Berlin |
| founding | 2002
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| Manager | Sabine Kraft |
| Website | bundesverband-kinderhospiz.de |
The Bundesverband Kinderhospiz e. V. ( BVKH ) is an umbrella organization for outpatient and inpatient children's hospice facilities in Germany. The association was founded in 2002. It is based in Berlin and has its office in Lenzkirch in the Black Forest.
As a professional association, it is the point of contact for politics, science, doctors, clinics, payers, donors and sponsors. Members of the association are outpatient and inpatient children's hospice facilities as well as organizations and private individuals who are connected to children's hospices and promote their interests.
His goals include:
- Ensuring and developing the quality of children's hospice work
- Establish common standards for the outpatient and inpatient area of child hospice work and systematically develop them further
- Bundling, coordination and expansion of educational offers in the field of child hospice work
- Provide and standardize qualification offers for full-time and voluntary employees
- public relation
- To enforce public funding and legal funding of child hospice work
- Promote cooperation with political decision-makers and authorities at the state and federal level
- Promote collaboration with doctors and clinics
- Promotion of qualified pain therapy in the care of children and adolescents
- Development of independent legal advice for the member organizations
- Direct support for affected children and their families
The Federal Association for Children's Hospice is a member of the children's network and the German Society for Palliative Medicine . Internationally, he is on the Director's Board of the International Children's Palliative Care Network and represents the Western Europe region in children's palliative care .