Psychiatry St.Gallen North
The St.Gallen North Psychiatry is a public institution of the canton of St.Gallen for the treatment of adults with a mental illness.
| Psychiatry St.Gallen North | |
|---|---|
| Country | Switzerland |
| Canton | St. Gallen |
| place | Wil, St.Gallen, Rorschach, Wattwil |
| Coordinates | 47.2756552 / 9.211849 |
| chief executive officer | Niklaus Baumgartner |
| beds | 223 (+ 88 Eggfeld special residence) |
| Employees without staff in training (in positions) | 518 |
| Employees with staff in training | 602 |
| Area of Expertise | Adult psychiatry, geriatric and neuropsychiatry, cantonal competence center forensics, special dormitory |
| founding | 1892 |
| UID number | CHE-114.868.838 St. Gallen Cantonal Psychiatric Services - North Sector |
| Website | www.psgn.ch |
description
On behalf of the canton, St.Gallen Nord psychiatry treats mental illnesses in adult psychiatry, trains doctors as an academic teaching hospital at the University of Zurich and is a training, advanced and advanced training company for medical and non-medical professions. In addition, St.Gallen North Psychiatry conducts applied medical and nursing research and participates in studies by university and non-university institutions. A total of around 800 people are employed in the St.Gallen Nord psychiatry.
organization
St.Gallen North Psychiatry is divided into various business units. The business units are managed on a dual basis by the medical and nursing management.
Adult psychiatry
- Inpatient adult psychiatry (Wil, St.Gallen)
- Outpatient adult psychiatry (Wil, St.Gallen, Rorschach, Wattwil)
Cantonal competence center forensics
- Inpatient forensics (Wil)
- Outpatient forensics (Wil)
- Expert opinion
Age and Neuropsychiatry
- Inpatient geriatric and neuropsychiatry (Wil)
- Outpatient geriatric and neuropsychiatry (Wil, St.Gallen)
- Memory Clinic
Education, training and further education
Our nationally networked and well-known educational and research activities focus on nursing training as well as further training for doctors and psychologists. There are educational and service offers for employees as well as external interested parties and specialists from medicine, psychology, nursing, social work and others therapeutic as well as non-therapeutic professions.
history
Asylum Wil was opened with 300 beds in 1892; the first director was the 28-year-old Heinrich Schiller. 60 women and 60 men moved from the “madhouse” St. Pirminsberg in Pfäfers to Asyl Wil. Five years later, the 300 beds were no longer enough. The war years from 1939 to 1945 also left their mark on the Wil asylum. The absence of male personnel due to military service, austerity measures with drastic restrictions on food and heating and the "cultivation battle" led to stress.
In 1953 the psychotropic drug “Largactil” was used for the first time in people with schizophrenia in the sanatorium of the time. Even severe symptoms could be alleviated, reducing the need for inpatient treatment. In 1967 the sanatorium was renamed the Wil cantonal psychiatric clinic. Over the years, the window bars were removed, the last of which fell in 1971. A new building with three wards and a medical center made it possible in 1980 to set up a modern acute psychiatry. A year later, a drug advice center was set up in St.Gallen as a social psychiatric advice center. For the 100th anniversary under the motto “Openness, openness and public relations in psychiatry”, lectures, film screenings, symposia and exhibitions took place in the culture pavilion in 1992. In 1994 and 1995 the mentally and mentally handicapped patients were handed over to the Heimstätten Wil institution, with whom we have worked closely to this day. The patients were given their own dormitories, where they received programs for day and leisure activities.
In 1997, as part of the cantonal hospital planning "Networking / decentralization", psychiatric care in the canton of St. Gallen was divided into the north and south sectors. It was hoped that this would provide continuous, patient-friendly care. The first day clinic opened in St. Gallen in 1997, in Wil in 2002, in Rorschach in 2005 and in Wattwil in 2011.
In November 2004 the Cantonal Psychiatric Services - Sector North (KPD-SN) was the first psychiatry in Switzerland to receive the EFQM certificate (European Foundation for Quality Management). With a joint board of directors in January 2012, KPD-SN and Psychiatrie Dienst-Süd became two independent public law institutions. For the 125th anniversary in 2017, the KPD-SN got a new name: Psychiatrie St.Gallen North.
Chief physicians
| Heinrich Schiller | 1892-1934 |
| Eduard Näf | 1934-1951 |
| Fred singing iron | 1951-1974 |
| Helmut Kunz and Walter Pöldinger | 1974-1985 |
| Rudolf Osterwalder | 1985-1996 |
| Hanspeter Wengele | 1996-2010 |
| Ulrich Michael Hemmeter | since 2010 |
| Thomas Maier | since 2010 |
| Christiane Thomas dog | since 2016 |
WebLinks
literature
- 100 years of the cantonal psychiatric clinic Wil 1892-1992 (Festschrift 1992). Meyerhans Druck AG, Wil, 1992.