Swiss Epilepsy Foundation

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Swiss Epilepsy Foundation

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legal form Foundation, endowment
founding 1886
Seat Zurich , Switzerland
management Felix Grether, President of the Board of Trustees
Number of employees around 700 (2014)
sales 64.8 million CHF
Branch Health, social and educational services
Website Website

The Swiss Epilepsy Foundation ( EPI Foundation for short ) is a private, non-profit institution. The purpose of the foundation is to provide services in the health, social and educational sectors, in particular for people with epilepsy and other neurological issues.

The foundation supports the companies EPI WohnWerk, EPI Services, EPI Spitalschule, Oberstufenschule Lengg (OSSL) and the youth home donation Dapples. The companies fulfill the performance mandates of the Canton of Zurich and the federal government. Since 2014, the foundation has been running the Swiss Epilepsy Clinic as part of the Lengg Clinic. The foundation also runs a pastoral office for pastoral care and invites you to the public EPI Park restaurant in its park, from where you can enjoy a view of Lake Zurich.

Swiss Epilepsy Center

The "EPI", as the institution is popularly known, was founded in 1886 as the "Swiss Institute for Epileptics". A group of private persons had set up an "institute" run according to Christian principles to help "the poorest of the poor".

At the beginning the pastoral care, education and medical treatment and care of people in need of care with epilepsy were in the foreground, but from the 1960s onwards the facility gradually transformed into a specialized medical clinic, which was supplemented with further services. As part of this change, the institution was renamed the Swiss Epilepsy Clinic in 1979 and the Swiss Epilepsy Center in 2001, and the sponsorship, which was organized as an association until 2001, was converted into a foundation.

Today the Epilepsy Center is a comprehensive professional network of epilepsy-related services that are provided by various companies. It fulfills a service mandate for highly specialized medicine and works closely with the University Hospital in Zurich.

Its aim is to treat, support and advise people with epilepsy and their relatives, to conduct scientific research into epilepsy and its treatment, and to inform the public on the subject of epilepsy. As a competence center, the Swiss Epilepsy Center offers a comprehensive range of specialized services that cover all aspects of epilepsy diagnostics and treatment, including advice, school lessons during the hospital stay, education and long-term care. Disabled medicine is just as much a part of the portfolio of the Swiss Epilepsy Center as is epilepsy surgery.

Epilepsy refers to a group of diseases that are characterized by the spontaneous occurrence of epileptic seizures. There are numerous types of seizures and more than 30 types of epilepsy. The effects of epilepsy on the lives of those affected and their families are manifold. They concern personal, medical, social and societal aspects.

EPI WohnWerk

The EPI WohnWerk offers people with a disability a permanent home. Older people and people with a high need for care and support can also find needs-based housing in various residential buildings.

Workshop and day care center offer a regular daily structure and individually meaningful and comprehensible activities. Employees with a disability who live outside the home are also employed in the workshop. This is a reliable and competent partner for external clients. In the nursery sales room there is a wide selection of high quality food and decorative products from the garden.

The EPI WohnWerk wants to be a place where people feel accepted. Great importance is attached to the fact that the residents can live according to their individual needs and possibilities. You will be given a contact-rich environment. There is also a wide range of leisure activities available to them. They receive support in all necessary aspects of their everyday life. You will receive the best possible care, nursing and medical care.

EPI Central Services

The EPI central services include the pharmacy and hotel industry, human resources and technical services, IT, finance and case and service management. They form an independent service center and are run as a foundation company. The EPI Central Services offer services to other companies of the Swiss Epilepsy Foundation, but also to external companies and cooperation partners. This enables synergies to be used.

schools

EPI hospital school

School-age patients who are expected to stay in hospital for a week or longer are taught in the school. School lessons emphasize the healthy side of the children and young people and give them a clear daily structure.

The team consists of teachers with additional special education training. They are supported by educational staff. The committed, close support gives the children a framework in which they feel understood and accepted with their specific problems. The individual school material is usually discussed with the school of origin.

Lengg Secondary School (OSSL)

The school is part of the special school offer of the Canton of Zurich and comprises a three-year upper level for young people with special school needs. With the “OSSL 15plus” offer, both previous and young people from other schools have the opportunity to continue school years if this is necessary for development and entry into the professional world. The young people are offered an optimal school environment for their personal development and their support in dealing with their individual school problems. Great emphasis is placed on promoting independence, personal responsibility and social responsibility.

Dapples donation

The construction of the youth home was initiated by the then director of the Swiss Institute for Epileptics, Rudolf Grob , and thanks to a financial donation from Louis Dapples it was opened on June 1, 1919, then in 1923.

The Dapples donation is now an open youth home for male adolescents aged 16 to 22 years. It has various forms of living, three training workshops, a training and orientation workshop and its own vocational school. The spatial proximity of the living area, vocational school and teaching company is a special feature and strength of the youth home. It makes it possible to consciously and appropriately take into account the needs of young people in their everyday life as well as their behavioral difficulties. Accordingly, the Dapples donation is particularly suitable for young people who need this close in-patient care.

The training workshops - carpentry, mechanical workshop and painting - are independent production companies run according to commercial principles, which carry out orders from private customers, the public sector and industry.

Klinik Lengg, Swiss Epilepsy Clinic

At the beginning of 2014, the services offered by the Swiss Epilepsy Clinic were transferred to the new Lengg AG Clinic run jointly with the Zurich Rehabilitation Centers Foundation. This offers medical services for outpatients and inpatients in the fields of epilepsy and neurorehabilitation.

The know-how of the former EPI Clinic in the field of epilepsy is supplemented by new offers in rehabilitation. With this first clinic for neurorehabilitation in the city, the insufficient supply of rehab beds in the Zurich area is counteracted.

literature

  • Paula Lanfranconi, Giorgio von Arb. Episodes: telling people with and without epilepsy. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung. ISBN 978-3-03823-659-7 (publication for the 125th anniversary of the EPI)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry of the "Swiss Epilepsy Foundation" in the commercial register of the Canton of Zurich  ( 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: Toter Link / zh.powernet.ch  
  2. ↑ Annual reports of the Swiss Epilepsy Foundation

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