Specialized hospital Bethanien Hochweitzschen
| Specialized hospital Bethanien Hochweitzschen | |
|---|---|
| legal form | profit company |
| Seat |
Großweitzschen district of Hochweitzschen |
| management | Commercial director Dirk Herrmann |
| Number of employees | 166 full-time employees (2010) |
| Branch | Healthcare |
| Website | www.bethanien-hochweitzschen.de |
The specialist hospital Bethanien Hochweitzschen , in the Hochweitzschen district of the central Saxon community of Großweitzschen , serves the treatment of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic clinical pictures .
It has 115 beds and 45 day clinic places (as of 2013). In 2013 1.670 were patient stationary, 406 patient day patient and treated 4,269 outpatients.
The carrier of the specialist hospital is the Ev. Diakoniegesellschaft Mitteldeutschland gGmbH (DGM). Its sole shareholder is Zeisigwaldkliniken Bethanien Chemnitz non-profit GmbH - a subsidiary of the edia.con non-profit GmbH.
history
On 15 December 1874, on the eastern foothills of the wooded ridge "high Weitz's" in the valley of the Freiberger Mulde , between the cities of Döbeln and Leisnig , the Royal Saxon State Institute High Weitz's a nursing home for the chronically mentally ill in Gutsbezirk State Institute High Weitz's - now a district of the municipality Großweitzschen - opened.
From 1892 to 1930 the house was a sanatorium and nursing home for epilepsy patients .
time of the nationalsocialism
From October 9, 1939, the selection of the sick who were to be evacuated and murdered was carried out by a National Socialist “expert commission” made up of psychiatric specialists and professors. The managing deputy director Johannes Werner had filled out 619 registration forms.
In Sonnenstein, a total of 720 patients were murdered with carbon monoxide in the gas chamber. 377 patients were brought directly to the Sonnenstein killing center. The following were brought to the "intermediate institutions" with a high mortality rate:
- 292 patients to Großschweidnitz
- 100 patients according to Waldheim
- 227 patients to Arnsdorf
Most of the patients were transported from these intermediate institutions to Sonnenstein.
With the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, the facility was partially used as a reserve hospital. Because of the air raids on Leipzig , parts of the university clinics there were relocated to Hochweitzschen from 1943 onwards .
On April 30 and August 27, 1943, 119 patients were brought to the Zschadraß intermediate facility.
On September 23, 1943, January 6, 1944 and March 1, 1944, a total of 123 women were taken to the Bräunsdorf branch of the Hochweitzschen State Institute and to Hilbersdorf; Of these, 105 women were deported to Kosmanos near Jungbunzlau in Eastern Bohemia on April 10, 18 and 19, 1944.
post war period
In the German Democratic Republic (GDR) the facility was continued as the "Hochweitzschen Mental Hospital". The house has been greatly reduced in size since 1990 and a specialist hospital for psychiatry and psychotherapy with six wards and 115 beds was created.
Since May 1998 a memorial plaque in the administration building has been commemorating the murder of the sick.
Facility
Departments
The clinic currently has two general psychiatric wards, two wards for addicts and two geriatric psychiatric wards as well as a day clinic in Döbeln with 20 places and a day clinic in Freiberg with 25 places. With this structure, the Hochweitzschen specialist hospital takes on full inpatient and semi-inpatient psychiatric care for the catchment area in the Central Saxony district with around 230,000 inhabitants.
For the western part of the district of Meißen , the Hochweitzschen specialist hospital (in addition to the psychiatric department at the Elblandklinikum Radebeul ) provides auxiliary and background care for a further 60,000 residents. On the basis of Section 118 (1) SGB V, the Psychiatric Institute Outpatient Clinic (PIA) at the Döbeln location also provides outpatient treatment with extensive personal continuity with inpatient treatment.
Forms of therapy
Individual and group discussions are offered on a psychological or behavioral basis. Other forms of therapy used are psychoeducation , relaxation methods , drug therapy, biological stimulation methods , sociotherapy , occupational therapy and physiotherapy .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Numbers and facts from Hochweitzschen. Key figures (as of 2013). Bethanien Hochweitzschen Specialist Hospital, accessed on February 10, 2015 .
- ↑ T. Schilter: "The National Socialist Euthanasia" - Pirna-Sonnenstein Killing Center 1940/41. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1998
- ^ A b c Rudolf Wilhelm Lehle: The history of the Hochweitzschen hospital in central Saxony. From the original “insane asylum” to the first state sanatorium and nursing home for epilepsy sufferers in the German-speaking area, from a large psychiatric hospital to a smaller specialist hospital for psychiatry and psychotherapy. 1874 to 2002. 2002