Waldhaus Clinic

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Waldhaus Clinic Chur

The Waldhaus Chur clinic in the Loequartier of the Grisons canton capital Chur is, alongside the Beverin clinic near Cazis, one of the two acute psychiatric hospitals and as such is on the hospital list of the canton of Grisons. It is operated by the Graubünden Psychiatric Services.

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Waldhaus has a cantonal service contract for acute psychiatry, psychotherapy ward, rehabilitation psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry.

In addition, the Waldhaus runs a tinnitus clinic and maintains an outpatient range of services, as does the memory clinic for clarifying symptoms of chronic forgetfulness.

The Montalin dormitory, housing for the mentally impaired and ARBES, the sheltered workshop of the Grisons Psychiatric Services, with a textile workshop, a gardening shop and a shop are also integrated in the clinic area.

architecture

The Waldhaus Clinic in Chur is one of the most striking exponents of Wilhelminian architecture at the end of the 19th century. The landscape architecture is particularly important : no roofing was used and the park paths were laid out in arches, on the one hand to enable a new spatial experience beyond feelings of confinement and, on the other hand, to illustrate the clinic's opening to the city and society, which was not undisputed at the time.

Directors

Johann Josef Jörger from Vals was born on October 21, 1860; he died on August 31, 1933 in Chur. In 1884 he passed the state examination at the Basel University Hospital. As an assistant physician at the St. Pirminsberg Clinic, Jörger became the first chief physician and director of the Waldhaus establishment in 1890 and managed it for 40 years. The original Valser is considered to be the first Graubünden psychiatrist. In 1905 he published his family tree research on Yenish families in Graubünden for the first time, which is the basis for the questionable behavior towards the Yenish. In 1919 he published his main work “Psychiatric Family Stories”, which received great attention in specialist circles.
In addition to the use of lidded baths and straitjackets, which were common at the time, Jörger attaches great importance to keeping the patients busy with various tasks in the household and in the garden. As a writer, he wrote various works on legends and folklore and wrote many stories in the Vals dialect.
Johann Benedikt Jörger was born on August 16, 1886. He is the son of Johann Josef Jörger, the first director of the institution. Son Jörger studies medicine in Basel, Florence and Zurich and subsequently specializes in psychiatry. From 1918 he worked in the Waldhaus Clinic and in 1930 succeeded his father. Later he was interim director of the St. Pirminsberg asylum in Pfäfers and published numerous papers on psychiatry. Like his father, the art critic and nature lover publishes various writings such as comedies, fairy tales and Christmas games. Under his aegis, therapeutic changes are taking place, and work therapy is being expanded. During his time as chief physician, wards were rebuilt and renovated and a third assistant physician position was created. Johann Benedikt Jörger died on March 2, 1957 in Chur.
Fred Singeisen was born on January 9, 1909. He is the son of the widowed Lenko Albert, who later marries the psychiatrist Walter Morgenthaler. Singeisen studies medicine and does his doctorate in 1935 at the University of Bern. After a stay abroad at the Psychiatric and Nervous Clinic in Munich, he headed the Psychiatric University Clinic in Basel from 1942 to 1945. From 1946 to 1952 he was director of the Waldhaus Clinic, later he held the same position at the Psychiatric Clinic in Wil. During his tenure, the various occupational therapies will be modernized, and he will also incorporate deep psychological approaches into clinical work. Drug cessation cures for alcoholics are also carried out under his aegis. He also takes care of the training of the nursing staff and improves cooperation with authorities and places increasing emphasis on public relations. Singeisen dies on November 11, 1982.
  • 1952–1977 Gottlob Pflugfelder
Gottlob Pflugfelder, born in 1915, did his doctorate in 1942 at the University of Basel and had previously worked as a doctor in Chur. In 1952 he becomes director of the Waldhaus Clinic and also deals intensively with the family histories of the Yeniche. In the wake of the 1968 revolution, great reservations and criticism were expressed about the methods of medical psychiatry. The renaming of the name from the sanatorium to the psychiatric clinic as well as the treatment of patients with neuroleptics bring about various changes. Many chronically ill people can be discharged and insulin cures and electrical treatments are carried out less frequently. Structural changes consist of converting dormitories into three- and four-bed rooms. The screed is made for occupational therapy and the nurses' house is rebuilt. Gottlob Pflugfelder died in 2003.
Benedikt Fontana from Graubünden was born on February 7, 1926 in Cazis. He attended the Bündner canton school and graduated in 1948 with the Matura. After studying medicine in Freiburg, Bern and Zurich, he passed the state examination in 1954. The other stations of his professional career are the Beverin Clinic in Cazis, the Glarus Cantonal Hospital, the Münsingen Sanatorium, the Psychiatric Polyclinic in Bern and the Waldhaus Clinic in Chur. In April 1977 he was elected director. Like his predecessors Josef Jörger, Johann Benedikt Jörger and Gottlob Pflugfelder, he also deals with the Yeniche. Therapeutic changes during his time as director include the lifting of the gender segregation in the hospital wards. New living and lounges are also being created and creative and artistic forms of therapy such as art, ergo and movement therapies are further developed. The opening of the outpatient service in 1979 also falls under his term of office. Further psychiatric services are created in the regional hospitals in Davos, Samedan and Lanz. His work as head physician is characterized by complex renovation and new building plans.
As senior physician at the Psychiatric University Clinic Basel, Markus Bünter was elected chief physician at the Waldhaus Cantonal Psychiatric Clinic in Chur in 1991, and in 2012 he took over the management of forensics. During his time as chief physician, he had a major impact on psychiatric care in Graubünden and introduced many therapeutic changes. So z. B. the first independent advice center of the "Association of Relatives of Schizophrenia and Mentally Ill" (VASK). A day clinic and the first geriatric psychiatric day clinic (memory clinic) are also opened and electronic medical histories are introduced, as the first psychiatric clinic in Switzerland. In February 1992 · the new patient houses can be occupied, in autumn 1993 the complete renovation of the clinic will follow. When the Waldhaus Clinic was integrated into the Psychiatric Services (PDGR) in 2002, Markus Bünter ended his 11-year career as chief physician.
After completing her medical degree in 1987, she started her first position as an assistant doctor at the Beverin Clinic in Cazis. Further stations of her professional activity are the neurosurgical clinic at the University Hospital Zurich and the psychiatric clinic St. Pirminsberg in Pfäfers. In 1994 she became the first woman in the canton to be chief physician at the Beverin Clinic. With the establishment of the PDGR in 2002, she took over the overall psychiatric management. During her tenure, various structural changes will be initiated and the Mentalva private clinic will be built, which she will take over in 2011. Likewise, other offers such as drug and alcohol withdrawal treatment in the same ward and the treatment of drug addicts in the penal system are introduced or psychosomatic energetics are developed as homeopathic treatment. The electronic medical histories will also be introduced and the training of assistant doctors will be intensified.
Schneeberger studies human medicine at the medical faculty of the University of Basel and then completed his Swiss specialist training for psychiatry and psychotherapy in Liestal and Bruderholz. After further studies and the US specialist training in New York, he took over the management of the outpatient psychiatric services and general psychiatric day clinics in South Grisons in 2011. In 2013, Schneeberger became co-chief physician of the southern Grisons region, and at the beginning of 2017 he became the successor to chief physician Suzanne von Blumenthal and a member of the management of the Graubünden psychiatric services. The priorities set by Schneeberger are in the area of ​​social psychiatry, open psychiatry and the recovery approach. He is also scientifically active and is developing psychiatric treatment and health care research in the canton of Graubünden.

Web links

Commons : Klinik Waldhaus (Chur)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hospital list of the Canton of Graubünden 2002 - Hospital list_Juli2012.pdf. (No longer available online.) In: gr.ch. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 29, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gr.ch  

Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '9.5 "  N , 9 ° 32' 24"  E ; CH1903:  760,194  /  193053