Cork Epilepsy Center
The Kork Epilepsy Center is a facility of Diakonie Kork ("Korker Anstalten" until 1999) in Kork , a district of the Baden-Württemberg city of Kehl am Rhein.
history
The facility was founded in 1892 as a “sanatorium and nursing home for epileptic children”.
In 1940, 113 patients were transported to the Nazi killing center in Grafeneck near Gomadingen and murdered. An installation of glass plates and steles commemorates the 113 victims of the T4 campaign .
Since 1999, the center has included the epilepsy clinic for children and adolescents, the epilepsy clinic for adults, the Séguin clinic for people with severe intellectual disabilities, the intensive monitoring unit, the blood level laboratory, various therapy departments and the study department.
Facility
The Kork Epilepsy Center has 121 inpatient beds. Bernhard J. Steinhoff has been the medical director since 2004 .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.epikurier.de/archiv/ausgabe-42003/epilepsiezentrum-kehl-kork/
- ↑ http://www.diakonie-kork.de/de/diagnostik-verarbeitung/Wir-ueber-uns/Geschichte/Geschichte-EpiZ.php
- ↑ http://www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de/inhalt.kehl-erinnerung-an-113-ermordete.a0723de8-8a6c-49a5-9206-0abe774ed8b0.html
Coordinates: 48 ° 33 '59.5 " N , 7 ° 51' 54.3" E