District Clinic Mainkofen
District Clinic Mainkofen | |
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Sponsorship | District of Lower Bavaria |
place | Deggendorf |
state | Bavaria |
Country | Germany |
Coordinates | 48 ° 48 '27 " N , 12 ° 53' 50" E |
Directory | Gerhard Schneider, Wolfgang Schreiber, Gerhard Kellner |
beds | 724 |
Employee | circa 1400 |
including doctors | 104 |
founding | 1911 |
Website | http://www.mainkofen.de/ |
The Mainkofen District Clinic in the Natternberg district in Deggendorf is a specialist clinic for psychiatry , psychotherapy , psychosomatics , forensic psychiatry , neurology and neurological early rehabilitation . Its catchment area extends to the districts of Deggendorf , Freyung-Grafenau , Passau , Regen , Rottal-Inn and Straubing-Bogen as well as the independent cities of Passau and Straubing .
history
The Lower Bavarian District Healing and Care Institution Mainkofen was founded in 1911. The buildings erected between 1909 and 1913 are listed as historical monuments. The institution church was expanded from 1963-65 under Hans Döllgast .
time of the nationalsocialism
During the time of National Socialism, more than 500 forced sterilizations were carried out on young people and adults of both sexes in their own operating theater or in hospitals outside of Germany. According to current knowledge, 606 patients were taken in five transports between October 1940 and July 1941 from the Pankofen train station to Nazi killing centers as part of the T4 campaign , including the Hartheim killing center near Linz. After 1941, patients were murdered by drug overdoses, non-treatment of illnesses, cold and hunger (among other things on the basis of the Hunger Food Decree ).
post war period
Since the 1970s, the hospital, which is run by the Lower Bavaria district , has been renovated and modernized. In addition, an outpatient psychiatric network was gradually expanded.
Facility
The Mainkofen District Hospital employs around 1,400 people in 10 departments. It has 724 beds and is one of the largest district clinics in Bavaria.
The Neurological Clinic has been participating in the Stroke Unit quality assurance project of the Bavarian Working Group for Quality Assurance in Inpatient Care since 2004 . The neurological clinic covers with the certified stroke unit ( stroke unit from the full range of stroke therapy). In 2007, 556 patients with acute strokes and transient ischemic attacks were treated in the stroke unit.