Psychiatric services Aargau
| Psychiatric Services Aargau (PDAG) | |
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| place | Windisch |
| Canton | Aargau |
| Country |
 Switzerland
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| Coordinates | 658 741 / 259126 |
| chief executive officer | Jean-François Andrey |
| beds | 380 |
| Employee | 1317 (2019) |
| Annual budget | approx. CHF 156 million (2019) |
| founding | 1872 |
| Website | www.pdag.ch |
The Aargau Psychiatric Services AG ( PDAG ) are a public institution of the Canton of Aargau for the treatment of people of all age groups who are affected by a mental illness . The PDAG guarantee psychiatric treatment and care with emergency services and crisis intervention for the canton's population.
description
On behalf of the canton, the PDAG treat mental illnesses and train doctors and nurses as an academic teaching hospital at the University of Zurich . PDAG has been a stock corporation owned by the Canton of Aargau since 2004 . In addition, the Psychiatric Services Aargau AG (PDAG) conduct medical and nursing research. Overall, the PDAG employs over 1,300 people in over 50 professions.
Locations
The clinics that belong to the Aargau Psychiatric Services (PDAG) are spread across the Rheinfelden , Brugg , Rüfenach , Windisch , Baden , Aarau / Unterentfelden , Lenzburg , Wohlen and Zofingen locations .
history
Establishment and further development of the Königsfelden sanatorium and nursing home
In 1803 the canton of Aargau ran a cantonal poor, sick, mad and midwifery institution in the monastery buildings. Königsfelden was a canton hospital from 1803 to 1887. On January 21, 1868, construction work began on the Königsfelden sanatorium. On October 1st, 1872, the canton of Aargau opened a psychiatric sanatorium and nursing home in the former cantonal hospital on the monastery grounds of Königsfelden. The sanatorium and nursing home provided accommodation for 250 patients. The number of patients increased steadily, so in 1895 a cell compartment was added on both sides of the main building. Up to 1000 patients were accommodated in Königsfelden during the First World War . In 1929 the first diploma exams could be passed. In 1933 the public consultation hours for mentally ill children began in the Königsfelden sanatorium.
The sanatorium and nursing home in Königsfelden was called the "Psychiatric Clinic Königsfelden" from 1965. The child and adolescent psychiatric services were led by Dr. Grollimund-Kostron was founded in 1974 and the consultancy and liaison psychiatry at the children's clinic of the Cantonal Hospital in Aarau were also founded. The outpatient clinic in Baden was opened in 1977 and the outpatient clinic in Wohlen and Rheinfelden was opened four years later. In 1993, a drug rehab center was set up in Königsfelden, the first of its kind in the canton of Aargau.
Formation of the Aargau Psychiatric Services
In 1995, the inpatient and outpatient services in adult psychiatry were separated with the introduction of new names: Psychiatric Services Aargau, Internal Psychiatric Service and External Psychiatric Service. This year, too, the child and adolescent psychiatric services were integrated into the psychiatric service of the Canton of Aargau. The opening of the EPD base in Aarau also took place in 1995. One year later, the EPD bases in Frick and Wohlen and the Sternbild residential and employment home opened for mentally disabled people . The opening of the heroin dispensing point in the staff house took place in 2000. In 2004 PDAG became a stock corporation with a board of directors and CEO . The opening of the Memory Clinic Windisch followed a year later. The meeting center opened in 2006. The PDAG opened the psychiatry museum called Geschichte with a vernissage in 2009. The Königsfelden Psychiatric Clinic operates a forensic station for offenders with inpatient therapy in 2010.
The Aargau Psychiatric Services as a modern company
As one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in Switzerland, the Psychiatric Services Aargau AG (PDAG) is also involved in the training of prospective doctors. The PDAG has been recognized as a teaching hospital of the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich since 2011. The head and chief physician of the clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy, Wolfram Kawohl, is at the same time titular professor for psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Zurich. In 2012 the opening of the second Memory Clinic in Aarau, the second forensic station and the forensic outpatient clinic and the new day clinic for children and adolescents in Königsfelden took place. The opening of the crisis intervention and triage center followed in 2013. The opening of the neuropsychiatric consultation service in Aarau and the opening of the center for stationary forensic therapy were in 2014. The opening of the clinic for children and adolescents with the integration of the children's and youth ward Rüfenach followed 2016.
structure
The Aargau Psychiatric Services consist of the following four clinics and directorates:
- Psychiatry and psychotherapy
- Consultative, geriatric and neuropsychiatry
- Forensic psychiatry
- Child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy
Psychiatry and psychotherapy
The PDAG Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy includes:
Inpatient Center for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
- Stationary offer
- Day clinic offer
- Outpatient offer
The inpatient psychiatry and psychotherapy center is responsible for the inpatient treatment of adults up to the age of 65. The most common mental illnesses are mood disorders such as depression and schizophrenia . As part of inpatient basic care and acute treatment, there are various special offers, such as B. inpatient psychotherapy , mother-child hospitalizations and rehabilitation .
Outpatient Center for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
- Outpatient clinics in the Aarau, Baden, Fricktal and Freiamt sectors
- Day clinics in the Aarau and Baden and Königsfelden sectors
- Day centers in the Aarau, Baden, Fricktal and Freiamt sectors
- Work coach
During the consultation hours, specialists carry out outpatient investigations if psychotic disorders are suspected . The patients are treated on an outpatient basis by psychiatrists , psychologists , nurses and social workers. Treatments are based on discussions, supported by medication if necessary.
Consultative, geriatric and neuropsychiatry
Center for geriatric and neuropsychiatry
- Acute inpatient area with 63 beds spread over 3 specialized wards
- Memory Clinic with locations in Aarau, Königsfelden and Baden
- Neuropsychiatric consultation service for people with intellectual disabilities
- Psychiatric- psychosomatic consultation service for acute hospitals
- Gerontopsychiatric consultation service for nursing homes
- Specialist therapies and social service
The clinic for consultant, geriatric and neuropsychiatry is responsible for the inpatient, outpatient and consultative care of the Aargau population. Seniors with mental illnesses and people with cognitive impairments are treated and cared for here.
Forensic psychiatry
The Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry that deals with the assessment, treatment and placement of mentally ill offenders and in which scientific and clinical findings are applied to legal issues. It includes psychiatric research, clinical practice and teaching in the context of criminal law , the execution of sentences and measures , civil law and insurance law . In a narrower sense, forensic psychiatry deals with questions raised by courts and authorities in the field of psychiatry.
Inpatient Center for Forensic Psychiatry
- Inpatient penal measures
- Forensic crisis interventions
Outpatient Center for Forensic Psychiatry
- Forensic outpatient clinic
- Prison psychiatry
- Forensic consulting and liaison psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy deals with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders and illnesses that occur in childhood or puberty . Today child and adolescent psychiatry is an independent subject, but originally developed out of psychiatry.
Outpatient treatment
- Central registration for children and young people
- Outpatient clinics in the regions of Aarau, Baden, Fricktal and Freiamt
- Consultation hours for babies and toddlers
Inpatient treatment
- Day clinic offer
- Stationary offer
Consultation and liaison service
- Aarau Cantonal Hospitals, Baden
- Autism counseling
- Hard of hearing school Landenhof, Unterentfelden
- Specialized unit for children and youth forensics
literature
- Simon Teuscher, Claudia Moddelmog (ed.): Königsfelden. Regicide, monastery, clinic. here + now, Baden 2012, ISBN 978-3-03919-259-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Management of Psychiatric Services AG PDAG . Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ^ Staff - Psychiatric Services Aargau AG . Retrieved May 6, 2020.
- ↑ Annual budget - Psychiatric Services Aargau AG . Retrieved May 6, 2020.
- ↑ Psychiatric Services AG PDAG . Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ↑ Portrait - Psychiatric Services Aargau AG. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Academic Teaching Hospital Psychiatric Services AG PDAG . Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ↑ Aktiengesellschaft Psychiatric Services AG PDAG . Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ↑ Research Psychiatric Services AG PDAG . Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ↑ Numbers and facts - Psychiatrischedienste Aargau AG . Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ↑ locations Psychiatric Services AG PDAG . Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ^ The establishment of the chair for psychiatry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Munich . In: The Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Munich 1904 - 2004 . Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN 3-540-64530-6 , pp. 15-20 , doi : 10.1007 / 3-540-26629-1_3 .
- ↑ Chronicle of Psychiatric Services Aargau AG . Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ↑ Königsfelden Collection . Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ^ The establishment of the chair for psychiatry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Munich . In: The Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Munich 1904 - 2004 . Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 978-3-540-64530-6 , pp. 15-20 , doi : 10.1007 / 3-540-26629-1_3 .
- ^ Psychiatry and psychotherapy of the Psychiatric Services AG PDAG . Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ↑ Consiliar, geriatric and neuropsychiatry of the psychiatric services AG PDAG . Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ↑ Article Aargauer Zeitung Forensik Königsfelden . Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ↑ Forensic Psychiatric Services AG PDAG . Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- ^ Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Psychiatric Services AG PDAG . Retrieved January 14, 2019.