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By: Josef Ametsbichler, Heike Duczek
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For the benefit of its patients, the Ebersberg psychiatric day clinic is leaving its current premises. A move to an open and carefully designed environment is pending.
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– The new Ebersberg day clinic is still a construction site: chisels and drills determine the background noise, torn floors and open ceilings determine the picture. Visitors have to overcome many obstacles in the form of cable ducts and construction machinery.
There used to be trouble about the district clinic's inpatient services
The Wasserburg kbo-Inn-Salzach Clinic in Ebersberg is currently converting the former premises of an IT company into a day-care psychiatric facility with an institute outpatient clinic. The medical facility is located in the building on Bahnhofstrasse, which is just a few years old, in the company of other doctors, from a dental surgeon to a general practitioner to a urologist. It is a move within Ebersberg: The service that the kbo clinic took over from the district clinic in 2018 was previously housed in their rooms.
In 2017, the Ebersberg district clinic said goodbye to inpatient treatment of mentally ill patients in order to expand the psychosomatic day clinic and create more beds for internal medicine and surgery. A controversial step that resulted in the then chief physician publicly resigning. His accusation: “More money is made with cardiac catheters.” The clinic is concerned with maximizing profits. Now the next porter moves into their own rooms.
The goal: to be able to master everyday life again
From June onwards, people suffering from mental illnesses will receive advice and therapy as well as medication help in the rooms of the Inn-Salzach Clinic on Bahnhofstrasse. The head of the day clinic and specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, Manfred Koniarczyk, explains the goal: to become so stable again that everyday life at work and in the family can be managed.
This process is also possible on a semi-inpatient or outpatient basis. Being close to home can even be helpful because everyday exercise is then automatically part of the therapy program, explains Koniarczyk. Simply because some patients – such as parents with small children or caring relatives – cannot simply opt out for several weeks. Anyone who is treated in a day clinic returns to their private environment in the evening. Depending on the situation, this may or may not be helpful.
Contact person for people with mental illnesses (from left): Karsten Jens Adamski, managing director of the kbo-Inn-Salzach-Klinikum Wasserburg, Ebersberg's day clinic manager Manfred Koniarczyk and head doctor for regional care Ruth Höfter. You are standing in front of the new rooms of the day clinic on Bahnhofstrasse. © Heike Duczek
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“Anyone who is treated here has to be fit”: Outpatient services do not suit every case
Suicidal people, those with acute addictions or states of confusion are often better off in an inpatient setting. Her boss says about the Ebersberg day clinic: “Anyone who is treated here has to be fit.” That means being able to attend appointments independently and accept and implement therapies. For those affected, “outpatientization” is desirable in terms of health policy: concentration of inpatient medicine on large, central facilities, plus the comprehensive addition of day clinics as part-time inpatient services and outpatient clinics.
For this task, the Inn-Salzach-Klinikum (ISK) Wasserburg created its own head physician position around a year ago: Ruth Höfter took over the management of the regional care department. The ISK operates five day clinics with a total of 140 places in Wasserburg, Rosenheim, Freilassing, Altötting and Ebersberg.
(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Ebersberg newsletter.)
435 square meters of space on two floors: therapy from three to twelve weeks
The move from the former residential area of the district clinic on von-Scala-Straße to Bahnhofstraße is intended to provide modern therapy and treatment conditions with around 25 part-time and full-time employees. The most important architectural element inside is lots of light and bright, friendly colors. The day clinic should not look like a hospital.
Barrier-free rooms for individual and group discussions, music, art, dance, occupational and movement therapy as well as social training units are being created on 435 square meters of space over two floors. A short walk into the countryside also makes it possible to move exercise therapies outdoors. Inside there is space for three groups of eight patients each, which are assigned by general practitioners or specialists. Sometimes after an inpatient stay to provide support in everyday life. Depending on the clinical picture, therapy lasts three to twelve weeks.
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