Inpatient psychotherapy falls away in Schwäbisch Gmünd from 2026!

Inpatient psychotherapy falls away in Schwäbisch Gmünd from 2026!

Schwäbisch Gmünd, Deutschland - Psychiatric care in Schwäbisch Gmünd is facing a significant change. As the Center for Psychiatry (ZFP) Klinikum Winnenden closed the full inpatient departments in the House of Health in 2026. This means that the approximately 44 beds for inpatient treatments that are currently being looked after by around 35 nurses will no longer be available in Schwäbisch Gmünd. Patients have to travel to Ellwangen or Winnenden if they need fully inpatient treatment.

With the closure of the inpatient departments, however, not only the offer is reduced, but there are also new possibilities: the expansion of the day clinic for addicts was announced. This form of therapy allows the patient to come to treatment in the morning and go home in the evening. In addition, outpatient therapy is intensified, including station -equivalent treatment (rod), which is increased by ten places. In this way, supply gaps should be closed and the offers better adapted to the needs of the patients.

a change in psychiatric care

The spokeswoman for the ZFP, Michiko Pubance, indicates that the need for psychiatric care remains high, but has changed. In acute psychological crises, there will be no round-the-clock readiness in Schwäbisch Gmünd in the future. These important services are taken over in the Nachthours and at the weekend by the locations in Ellwangen and Winnenden.

A new focus in the region will be the age psychiatric care, which is to be built up in Schwäbisch Gmünd. This will take into account the change mentioned in psychiatric care, which not only reflects local needs, but also the increasing need for help, as it is shown in the dgppn . There it is said that increasingly more people need support for mental illnesses - almost every fourth person in Germany would be affected.

variety of offers is preserved

Despite the closures in the inpatient area, the premises in the House of Health for Daily Clinical Treatments, Diagnostics, Relatives Consulting and Therapeutic Group offers will be preserved. The ZFP group thus continues to offer a variety of supply offers for psychiatric, psychotherapeutic and psychosomatic treatments that aim to ensure help close to home, as well as on their website Detailed is.

The restructuring in Schwäbisch Gmünd is part of a larger trend in psychiatric care, which is characterized by a shortage of skilled workers and increasing need for interventions. It remains to be hoped that the changes will have positive effects on the quality of the care and that the relatives can ultimately benefit from a need -friendly, person -centered system.