Rockenhausen hospital for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy

The Rockenhausen hospital of the "Pfalzklinikum" has three wards with a total of 60 beds and 15 spaces in the associated day-care hospital.

The up-to-date psychiatric hospital in Rockenhausen offers mentally ill adults from the Northern 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, etc. are among the most common disease patterns.

Our hospital

The hospital ensures the day-care and inpatient treatment for mentally ill adults from the districts of Donnersberg and Kusel. If required, an outpatient treatment in the psychiatric outpatient department is possible.

How are you accommodated?

The inpatient area has 60 beds on three separate wards with generously designed double bedrooms with ensuite bathroom.

On each ward, patients with different mental diseases are admitted. The doors of the wards are open. There are no locked wards.

The day-care area has 35 spaces, i.e. 20 spaces in the day-care hospital in Kusel and 15 spaces in the day-care hospital in Rockenhausen.

Who can get treated?

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

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

Which treatment services does the hospital offer?

• medical heath care
• comprehensive medical diagnostics, counselling and therapy
• pharmacological therapy

Psychotherapy

Talking therapy by means of one-by-one interviews and group sessions on the basis of behaviour therapy and deep psychology taking into account your own competences and solution possibilities

Light therapy

For the treatment of depressive mood

Relaxation therapy

For example Jacobson’s Progressive Muscle Relaxation, autogenic training and imaginary journeys

Occupational therapy

Creative crafts or preset structured working in order to discover and redevelop your skills or improve your capacity in individual and group projects

Movement therapy

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

Art therapy

Developing your creative expression possibilities and problem solving strategies

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 first Thursday of the month at 6.30 in the day-care hospital. (If some day the first 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.

Who is working in our hospital?

There is a multi-professional treatment team including:

• nursing – educational staff
• physicians
• psychologists
• occupational therapists
• sports therapist
• art therapist
• social workers / social education workers
• secretaries
• medical office assistants

Management of the facility

• Dr. med. Andres Fernandez, chief physician
• Brigitte Anderl-Doliwa, M.A., BScN, head of nursing staff

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 call us (telephone 06361/4595-2301). We will schedule a date for an informal consultation. On that occasion, we can decide together whether the best solution for your will be an inpatient, day-care or outpatient treatment.

Information

Pfalzklinikum
Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie
Krankenhausstraße 10
67806 Rockenhausen

Telephone 063 61/45 95-0
Fax 063 61/45 95-2399

Our opening hours

The hospital is open 24 hours a day.

How to get to us

Footpath from the station: 5 minutes
By car: via "Bundesstraße" B48