Kaiserslautern hospital for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy

The Kaiserslautern hospital of the "Pfalzklinikum" has four wards with a total of 90 beds and 20 spaces in the associated day-care hospital.

The up-to-date psychiatric hospital in Kaiserslautern offers mentally ill adults from the Western Palatinate the opportunity to get treated close to community. This enables e.g. closer contacts to the patients’ relatives and a co-operation with the attending physicians and therapists outside hospital, with self-help groups, homes and administrative bodies on site. Psychoses, depressions, addictive disorders and anxiety disorders are among the most common disease patterns.

Our hospital

The hospital ensures the day-care and inpatient treatment for mentally ill adults from the city and the rural district of Kaiserslautern. If required, an outpatient treatment in the psychiatric outpatient department is possible.

How are you accommodated?

The inpatient area has 90 beds on four separate wards with generously designed single and double bedrooms with ensuite bathroom.

On each ward, patients with different mental diseases are admitted.

The day-care area – our day-care hospital – has 20 spaces.

Who can get treated?

We offer special, professional help in case of different mental diseases, such as depressions, bipolar disorders, anxieties, psychoses, age-related mental diseases and dependence diseases.

All persons aged 18 and above suffering from psychiatric problems can come to our hospital.

Highly specialized treatment services of the "Pfalzklinikum", however, continue to be offered exclusively in Klingenmünster. Among these are the Interdisciplinary Sleep Centre, the "Cleaneck" (professional drug rehabilitation ward – with acupuncture) and the Hospital for Forensic Psychiatry (hospital treatment order).

Which treatment services does the hospital offer?

A treatment schedule is developed individually with each patient. Our treatment services include:

Medical health care

Comprehensive medical diagnostics, counselling and therapy
Pharmacological therapy

Psychotherapy

Talking therapy by means of one-by-one interviews and group sessions taking into account your own competences and solution possibilities

Light therapy

For the treatment of depressive mood

Electroconvulsive therapy

in case of specific indication

Relaxation therapy

Creative therapy

Creative craft or nonverbal body-oriented working in order to discover and redevelop your skills or improve your capacity in individual and group projects

Movement programmes

Sports and physiotherapy exercises for physical activation and improvement of body awareness

Social services

Offering support in orientating yourself in the current life situation, assistance in looking for other prospects in social, financial and career terms

Support in coping with everyday business

Refreshing or improving of 

• your abilities in housekeeping (cooking, baking, doing your laundry etc.),
• social competences (group training, forming a socio-milieu)
• your abilities in the organization of leisure time (excursions, cultural events)

Support for mentally ill people’s relatives

Our guided focus group meets every third Thursday of the month from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. in the rooms of the day-care hospital. (If some day the third Thursday falls on a bank holiday, the group will exceptionally not meet in that month.)

We cordially invite you to talk to other relatives and benefit from professional support to regain strength in order to master your difficult life situation.

Info-Meetings for persons suffering from schizophrenia’s relatives in Kaiserslautern

The group meets every second Tuesday on the months February, May, August, November from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. in the conference room of the hospital.

We invite people with schizophrenia’s relatives to join the group and learn more about this disease. Among other things, we speak about the origin and symptoms of schizophrenia, about effective treatment, about preventive measures to avoid a relapse and about the special part of relatives.

The group is guided by the ward physicians Valentina Toteva and Dr. Nevena Slavkova-Kostova. A registration is not required.

Who is working in our hospital?

There is a multi-professional treatment team including:

• nursing – educational staff
• physicians
• psychologists
• creative arts therapists
• social workers / social education workers
• secretaries
• medical office assistants

Management of the facility

• Dr. med. Gudrun Auert, M.Sc., chief physician
• Brigitte Anderl-Doliwa, M. A., BScN, chief of nursing service

Contact

How can you get admitted to our hospital?

For admission you need a doctor’s referral. The health insurance funds bear the treatment cost. In an emergency case, you can, of course, contact us directly. At our hospital, you obtain skilled help around-the-clock.

If you are interested in our facility, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will schedule a date for an informal consultation. On that occasion, we can decide whether the best solution for your will be an inpatient, day-care or outpatient treatment.  

Information

Pfalzklinikum
Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie
Albert-Schweitzer-Str. 64
67655 Kaiserslautern

Telephone 06 31/53 49-0
Fax 06 31/53 49-22 09

Our opening hours

The hospital is open 24 hours a day.