LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf Hospital of the Heinrich-Heine University ...

lVr-KlINIKUM DÜSSelDOrF – HOSPItal OF tHe HeINrIcH-HeINe UNIVerSItY DÜSSelDOrF
2.2 Clinical Facilities
2.2.1 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
2.2.1.1 Division of General Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I
The Division of General Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I
(GP I) comprises 73 inpatient beds and provides healthcare
for the southern parts and suburbs of Düsseldorf, which
have approximately 200,000 inhabitants (the districts of
Unterbach, Vennhausen, Flingern, Lierenfeld, Eller, Wersten,
Himmelgeist, Garath, Holthausen, Benrath, Urdenbach,
Hellerhof, Hassels). People from these areas can be
admitted and receive inpatient treatment in one of the two
“sector wards” or attend the day care unit (14 treatment
places) or the institute’s emergency admission unit. Division
GP1 also offers two wards with special therapeutic facilities
(such as a mother-and-child treatment area).
Therapy facilities of the Division of General Psychiatry 1
The division provides flexible treatment options integrating
biopsychosocial treatment components. Treatment includes
specific pharmacological treatment that addresses individual
symptoms and the specific features of the illness and also a
wide range of other treatment options in which the individual
treatment plans are adapted by the medical doctors to suit
their patients’ individual requirements. Therapy is provided
in individual and group sessions and includes the full range
of drug treatment, psychotherapy, social and milieu therapy,
ergotherapy and physiotherapy approaches.
24
Sector Units
Intensive Care Units
Outpatient Clinic
Division of General Psychiatry I – Sector 3
73 Inpatient Beds
12 Day Clinic Places
Outpatient Clinic
Secure Ward 14 E, Sektor 3
Open Ward 14 H
Day Care Unit
Ward 14 F: Comorbidity
Ward 14 G: Millieu therapy and
Psychotherapy
Sector wards
The secure ward 14 E is the primary emergency ward
for patients from the southern areas and suburbs of
Düsseldorf who appear to represent a risk to others or
themselves. Thirty percent of the patients are free to leave
the secure ward within a period of three days, 50% within
a week. Further treatment is provided either by the open
or specialised units or in the form of outpatient care (in
the division’s own outpatient unit, if indicated). Ward 14 H
is an emergency ward – open 24 hours a day, 7 days per
week – for persons with psychotic or affective disorders
or psychosocial crises. One special feature is the facility
to admit “mother and child” in the event of postpartum
psychoses or depressions.
Specialised units
Comorbidity unit
This treatment unit has been designed for persons with
psychotic, affective or personality disorders and an
additional substance abuse who cannot be adequately
reached by a symptom-oriented standard therapy or who
would be likely to terminate such a therapy prematurely and
who are likely to be overburdened by the requirements of
dependence-specific treatment. Since – for most of these