LWL University Hospital Hamm

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The LWL University Clinic Hamm is a psychiatric hospital in Hamm , North Rhine-Westphalia . The focus is on child and adolescent psychiatry , psychotherapy and psychosomatics . The regional association Westphalia-Lippe is responsible for this . The house is part of the University Hospital of the Ruhr University Bochum .

history

The forerunner of the facility was in Marsberg in 1951, then in Gütersloh from 1952. The child and youth psychiatrist Elisabeth Hecker was in charge until 1960 . It later emerged that she had been involved in child murder during the Nazi era.

The house in Hamm was opened in 1965.

Facility

The LWL University Clinic Hamm is one of the largest specialist clinics for child and adolescent psychiatry in Germany. Here children and adolescents with psychiatric problems, severe behavioral problems or psychosomatic symptoms between the ages of five and 18 are treated.

There are 110 fully inpatient and 68 day clinic treatment places available in the six day clinics in Hamm , Rheda-Wiedenbrück , Bergkamen , Gütersloh, Warendorf and Soest with six adjoining outpatient departments . There are 20 places for the rehabilitation of young drug addicts . Counseling services are also offered in Turkish, Russian or English.

In addition to the LWL University Clinic for Psychiatry in Bochum, it is the second university clinic in the LWL Psychiatry Association.

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. a b http://www.haben-anders-stellen.lwl.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/LWL_Klinik-Hamm-RZ-Chronik-Einzelseiten-150dpi.pdf

Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 7.7 ″  N , 7 ° 51 ′ 49.8 ″  E