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The Bavaria clinic in Kreischa

The Bavaria Clinic is a rehabilitation center for intensive medicine and early rehabilitation, follow-up treatment as well as inpatient and semi-inpatient treatment in Kreischa ( Saxony ). It is located about 15 kilometers from the center of the Saxon capital Dresden in the Kreischa basin on the edge of the eastern Ore Mountains . The historicizing construction of the clinic complex and park forms an imposing complex that is architecturally reminiscent of a Baroque castle and was built between 1992 and 1994 by a joint venture between Dywidag and Union-Bau . The clinic in Kreischa has a bed capacity of over 1000 beds, making it one of the largest rehabilitation facilities in Germany. The cooperation partner of the rehabilitation clinic is the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital Dresden .

The children's clinic is located in the immediate vicinity in the Zscheckwitz district . This rehabilitation center specializes in the treatment of children, adolescents and young adults. With over 1,800 employees, the Bavaria Clinic is the largest private employer in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district and is privately owned. Further rehabilitation centers of Klinik Bavaria are located in Bavaria in Freyung and Bad Kissingen .

The Klinik Bavaria is a rehabilitation facility approved according to § 8 and 111 SGB V. The cost bearers include all health insurance companies , the German Federal Pension Insurance , the Federal Miners' Union , professional associations and the military administration.

Since 1991, patients of almost all ages and damage patterns have been treated at the Bavaria Clinic in Kreischa, who are referred for rehabilitation from all over Germany and internationally from acute hospitals. The aim is to give back the highest possible quality of life, even to multimorbid or seriously ill patients, including people in a vegetative state, true to the motto "rehabilitation comes before care". This means restoring and stabilizing elementary vital functions in intensive care patients such as coma or paraplegic patients and reducing the consequences of the disease or previous acute treatment. If possible, patients should be able to lead a largely independent life again.

Medical-job-oriented rehabilitation

A model project of the Bavaria Clinic that is unique in Germany is the medical-job-oriented rehabilitation, which goes far beyond the referral diagnosis. The task of the medical-profession-oriented rehabilitation is, in addition to intensive medical further treatment, as early as possible in the clinic's own workshops and in the commercial and administrative area, to determine and train the remaining professional skills in order to give the rehabilitation candidate a successful and lasting professional, family-like experience with the help of new perspectives and to enable social reintegration.

Sports medicine history and over 170 years of rehabilitation

The sanatorium, formerly founded as the 1st Saxon Cold Water Sanatorium Kreischa on March 15, 1839, has been a recognized facility for medical rehabilitation for over 170 years.

In the early 1960s, the sports medicine rehabilitation center was set up in Kreischa in the former sanatorium. After the acute treatment in the hospital, the athletes were supposed to regain their original performance through special medical and sports therapeutic treatment procedures - this also happened in preparation for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich . Siegfried Israel , who had become famous for the peace rides of the GDR cycling team, had been the head of the facility since 1963 . In total, over 13,000 athletes were enrolled in the sports medical rehabilitation area after injuries, operations and illnesses. Some of the athletes such as the ski jumpers Jens Weißflog and Hans-Georg Aschenbach or the biathletes Frank-Peter Roetsch and Frank Ullrich achieved medal ranks at the Olympic Games or World Championships after their rehabilitation stay in Kreischa .

The Sports Medical Rehabilitation Center was converted into the Central Institute of the Sports Medical Service of the GDR in March 1969 . In 1976, based on findings from athletic rehabilitation, a concept for health prevention was published, which bears the simple name of health training and describes, among other things, the replacement of jogging for the elderly with gentler walking training.

In the same year, doping tests were officially started at the institute . The tests and analyzes took place in the Central Doping Laboratory, the fourth of its kind, which was recognized by the International Olympic Committee and separated from the Central Institute. As early as 1974, top athletes were examined for the use of doping substances. As part of the sports medicine research at the Central Clinic, “doping research” on the effectiveness of doping agents (in the jargon so-called “supporting agents (UM)”) was carried out, and doping agents were apparently also used on athletes, as secret files revealed decades later. This and the politically motivated sports policy of the GDR secured by the Ministry for State Security (MfS) brought the Central Institute of Sports Medicine in Kreischa into disrepute.

In the course of German reunification , the first and at the same time last all-German scientific conference took place on September 8 and 29, 1990 in the central institute of the Kreischa Sports Medical Service. The sports medicine service of the GDR was dissolved a few months later and the Kreischa community established as legal successor. On October 4, 1990, the central institute was transferred to the Klinik Bavaria, Rudolf Presl GmbH, by a resolution of the municipal council.

On May 27, 1992, the foundation stone was laid for a new clinic, which in future should have up to 1,000 beds in eight specialist clinics. The acute hospital was closed at the end of 1993. In 1994 the European School for Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Sports Therapy and Speech Therapy as well as the Nursing School was founded. In 1993 the Helene Maier Foundation was established as a non-profit foundation under civil law. The aim is to support people with acquired brain damage in their social and professional reintegration. The foundation takes its name from a woman who, as a member of staff, was involved in the construction of the clinic at the Kreischa site and who died in a tragic traffic accident. The foundation started its work in 1996 in the Kreischa district of Theisewitz .

In June 1996 the rehabilitation center for children, adolescents and young adults was opened in Zscheckwitz, initially with the indications neurology and pediatrics . Metabolism with a focus on obesity and diabetes as well as cardiology , oncology and orthopedics / rheumatology were added later. The building also houses the vocational school for health and nursing as well as the vocational school for speech therapy.

Specialist and private hospital (weaning center)

On January 1st, 2009 the specialist and private hospital of the Klinik Bavaria with 80 hospital places was included in the hospital planning of the Free State of Saxony. According to Section 39 SGB V, chronically critically ill patients who are not yet able to actively participate in rehabilitation or who require ongoing monitoring and therapy of vital functions are cared for immediately after the primary care intensive care unit. With over 120 ventilation places , the specialist and private hospital, which is also known as the weaning center , is one of the largest facilities in Germany.

Comprehensive Sepsis Center

On October 1, 2018, an internationally significant pilot project started with the Comprehensive Sepsis Center of the Bavaria Kreischa Clinic and the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden. Specialists from a wide variety of disciplines have developed a treatment path that encompasses all phases of care - from acute intensive care treatment through the various phases of rehabilitation to outpatient follow-up care. The initiators of this world's first sepsis center expect a shorter length of stay in acute and rehabilitation clinics as well as a reduction in inpatient readmissions. The aim is to increase the survival rate of sepsis patients and improve the quality of life of those affected.

Medical specialties

Therapy areas

Schools and special facilities of the Klinik Bavaria

The Bavaria Clinic in Kreischa also includes the 1st European School for Physiotherapy , Occupational Therapy and Sports Therapy , the School for Speech Therapy and, since March 2013 (again) a vocational school for health and nursing . Such a school already existed from 1994 to 1999. With the establishment of the schools, the clinic is building on Kreischa's tradition as a place of medical teaching.

The non-profit Helene-Maier Foundation Kreischa / Saxony on the estate Theisewitz in Kreischa provides young people in whom the severity of a brain injury led to permanent loss of earning capacity, new perspectives in work in agriculture or crafts. The aim of the foundation's work is to achieve long-term involvement of the patient in an employment relationship or a field of activity or task that is associated with a satisfactory life perspective for him and with his social integration, a positive self-esteem as well as a growing self-esteem and identity.

The specialist facility for intensive care, which is also part of the Bavaria Clinic, looks after twenty children and adults in a vegetative state ( apallic syndrome , also with ventilation ). Long-term care of these people requires a high degree of professional professionalism and human competence in order to enable the people affected to live in dignity.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.uniklinikum-dresden.de/de/presse/aktuelle-medien-informationen/klinikuebergreifendes-zentrum-sracht-fuer-kuerzere-und- efficientere-therapie-von-sepsis- patienten
  2. ↑ http://www.dnn.de/Dresden/Lokales/Uniklinikum-und-Klinik-Bavaria-gruenden-Pilotprojekt-gegen-Sepsis
  3. ↑ https://www.mdr.de/sachsen/dresden/dresden-radebeul/klinikuebergreifendes-sepsis-zentrum-startet-pilotphase-100.html
  4. ↑ https://www.aerzteblatt.de/nachrichten/98019/Dresdener-Zentrum-will-Ueberlebensrate-von-Sepsispatienten-erhoehen

literature

  • Hans Joachim Kessler: Kreischa - rehabilitation between past and present . Ed .: Municipality of Kreischa. 2007.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 47.3 "  N , 13 ° 46 ′ 9"  E