kbo-Lech-Mangfall-Klinik in Agatharied reopened after renovation

Created: 06/21/2022, 05:42

Managing Director Katharina Copycny, District President Josef Mederer and Chief Physician Michael Landgrebe are happy about the reopening of the kbo-Lech-Mangfall-Klinik in Agatharied.

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Hausham – It took almost six years, but now the extensive renovation of the kbo Lech Mangfall Clinic in Agatharied is complete.

With a positive effect.

The time when therapy sessions had to be held when there was construction noise of up to 120 decibels is over.

After almost six years of construction during ongoing operations, the kbo Lech Mangfall Clinic in Agatharied was recently reopened as part of a ceremony.

As Michael Landgrebe, chief physician at the clinic, enthusiastically reported, the renovation, which cost around 7.8 million euros and was almost entirely financed from own funds, is already showing many positive effects.

Difficult years lie behind patients and employees of the clinic.

Landgrebe, who is also the medical director of the clinic network, looked back on an ugly time when, because of the construction noise, therapy talks and staff meetings were hardly possible.

He further reminded: "Then Corona also came."

Access to garden for gerontopsychology

However, the result of the conversion is impressive.

The elaborate ceiling closures of the mezzanine floors created significantly more space, creating more peace, retreats and spaces for joint activities.

In conjunction with access to the garden for gerontopsychology, open-air therapies are now also possible.

The concept is supplemented with pleasant light and color stimuli.

"The milieu does something to the people," Landgrebe is certain and proves this with a significantly reduced number of attacks by patients on the staff.

Up to twelve seriously ill patients can also be treated in the new intensive care unit.

Wherever possible, fixation should be avoided.

Number of beds increased from 108 to 120

District President Josef Mederer recalled the beginnings of the clinic.

In 1998, with the opening of the psychiatric clinic in the district of Upper Bavaria in the immediate vicinity of the Agatharied hospital, the intention was to remove the stigma of mental illness and to intensify cooperation between the two clinics.

Mederer and Landgrebe are convinced that this has worked so well over the years that there is probably no longer any need for discussion about a common entrance for the two houses.

Board member Margitta Borrmann-Hassenbach emphasized that the only moderate increase in the number of beds in six wards from 108 to 120 was also thought of the staff.

In addition, the new ambience is bearing fruit in the therapies: "With the conversion, we have come a good step closer to the important goal that patients do not have to stay in the clinic at all, but can live in their own home environment."