Minister in the sample patient room

Created: 09/19/2022, 18:05

By: Sandra Sedlmaier

Check for the MS Clinic (from left): Deputy District Administrator Georg Scheitz, Chairman of the Supervisory Board Harald Schwab, Minister Klaus Holetschek, Dr.

Ute Eiling-Hütig, the medical director Prof. Ingo Kleiter, Dr.

Wolfgang Fenneberg, health officer Beatrix Zurek and member of the Bundestag Michael Kießling.

© Andrea Jaksch

The MS specialist clinic in Kempfenhausen is one of the leading houses in the treatment of the "disease with 1000 faces", as multiple sclerosis is also known.

The clinic, which opened in 1988, is currently being extensively renovated.

The Free State is funding the first construction phase with 13 million euros, the second with 15 million.

Another 750,000 euros are available for digitization.

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- Minister of Health Klaus Holetschek brought another check to the Kempfenhausen clinic on Wednesday: around 500,000 euros from the hospital future fund will go into the digitization of the clinic.

Another 250,000 euros will follow, as Holetschek said.

The money is intended, among other things, for a digital patient portal.

The number of patient rooms will increase from 100 to 120 as a result of the ongoing renovation.

The medical director, Prof. Ingo Kleiter, showed the minister the so-called model room on the first floor.

MS patients with different degrees of disability have been accommodated there for a year and asked for their opinion.

Thanks to the feedback, the room – and later the other rooms as well – can be optimally designed, says Kleiter.

As an example, he showed the table that can be folded down in the two-bed room: "This gives you more space for two electric wheelchairs." The furniture also includes wall bars so that patients can pull themselves up there to stand and do not have to use the balcony railing .

Holetschek was visibly impressed.

Also from the therapy room with 16 exercise machines, which is now where the swimming pool used to be.

"Our patients thirst for exercise," said the responsible physiotherapist, but underlined that training on the equipment is not a substitute for physical therapy.

During the welcome, Kleiter emphasized the clinic's interdisciplinary approach and thanked the state for its support.

Also member of parliament Dr.

Ute Eiling-Hütig thanked the minister for his support and immediately announced a new project: gaining more knowledge about diseases using anonymous patient data.

"We're going to present a concept that you can't say no to," she said.

Beatrix Zurek, Munich health officer and representative of the city of Munich, one of the shareholders of the MS clinic, expected increasing digitization to make working with patients easier.

Chairman of the Supervisory Board Harald Schwab addressed the glaring lack of nursing staff in the Munich area.

The Kempfenhauser clinic is trying to counteract this: by recruiting specialists from the Philippines.

Three young women are already here, and eight more specialists, men and women, are to come in the course of the year.

And next year two more.