Regional Center Biskirchen

Parkinson Center Biskirchen
Karl-Ferdinand-Broll-Str. 2-4
D-35638 Leun-Biskirchen
Germany

Leader of the Regional Center

Dr. Ilona Csoti (Chief Consultant and Medical Director)

phone: ++49 6473 3050
fax: ++49 6473 30557
email: Parkinson-Center@t-online.de

Role of the institution in the Competence Network on Parkinson’s disease

The Parkinson Center Biskirchen in Leun-Biskirchen is a regional center of the Competence Network on Parkinson’s disease.

Description of the institution

In 1995 the Parkinson Center in 35638 Leun-Biskirchen (Hessen) was opened. In the past years it was continuously enlarged and between 2001 and 2003 structural completed.
The center is concepted especially for patients with Parkinson’s disease. It consists today of two independent neurological hospitals, two special outpatient departments, a unit for the so called prevention care and the promotional society for Parkinson’s disease e.V.

Gertrudis-Clinic Biskirchen

The Gertrudis-Clinic Biskirchen is a neurological hospital for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with Parkinson’s disease and related movement disorders. In addition to patients with Parkinson’s disease patients with Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), Chorea, Essential Tremor, Dystonia and similar diseases can be treated.
Members of the national health insurance scheme can be admitted in every disease phase to the hospital. The admission is possible as hospital transfer or as in-patient rehabilitation. Additional family members can be admitted. The hospital possesses 121 beds.






	The hospital is situated in the picturesque Lahn valley, near Wetzlar, in the north of Frankfurt, between Taunus and Westerwald. The surrounding offers in Weilburg, Braunfels and Limburg numerous sights worth seeing. The hospital buildings are embedded in a large garden. They are new and in best condition. Accomodation and catering have hotel character. The atmosphere in the hospital is really familiar. Patients and family members habe a large, light winter garden and an indoor and outdoor swimming pool at their disposal, feeded from the hospital’s own Gertrudis spring. Our treatment aims are: greatest possible function independence, improvement of life quality and conservation of earning power management of minimal dosage of combined medicines to preserve long-term effectiveness and digestibility (avoidance of side effects) slowing down disease progression Our treatment contains the following focal points: differential diagnosis (including 18-Fluoro-Dopa-PET and DaTSCAN-SPECT) as treatment basis future oriented medicine treatment on the foundation of international standards specific escort treatment: physiotherapy, motion baths, physical measures, massage, repetitive transkranial magnet stimulation, ergo and creativity therapy, music and dance therapy, breath and speech therapy, psychotherapy and neuropsychological diagnosis companying the side diseases and side effects of the therapy (including psychiatric area) family member therapy Additional: training of patients and family members supporting all social interests cultural activities to force against social isolation out-patient care before and after in-patient stays (special out-patient for Parkinson’s disease and Dystonia, Botox-Center) Our multi discipline team consists of 100 members, among them 9 doctors. They provide ca. 2.000 patients yearly and have long experience in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and related disorders. Permanent further education is a fixed component of our qualification. Subjective and objective measurements of treatment outcome are an essential part of our quality protection management.

Gertrudis Private Clinic

The Gertrudis Private Clinic is a state-approved neurological acute hospital for private patients.
Patients with private assurance and patients, who pay by their own, can be admitted. Condition for the admission - disregard of emergencies - is a hospitalization by the doctor in charge of the case. Rehabilitation treatments are not offered in the private clinic.
The private clinic is specialized for the treatment of the Parkinson’s disease and their related disorders.
The possibilities of diagnosis and therapy are of high standard, just as accomodation and catering.
Currently the private neurological clinic can offer 20 beds.

Medical director of the medical institutions is Dr. Ferenc Fornadi. The medical management and the whole medical, therapeutical and care team has long-term experience in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The hospitals offer specialised high performance medicine in a superior hotel atmosphere with individual familiar care. The tended garden, the indoor and outdoor swimming pool feeded from the hospital’s own spring, the walk school formed as japanese garden, the rose garden and the big winter garden play their part to make our patients feel well in the two hospitals.

Special ambulance for members of the national health insurance scheme

The so called authorization ambulance for Parkinson’s disease and related disorders can be used by all members of the national health insurance scheme. The neurologist in charge of the case has to refer the patient to the ambulance. It is leaded by the Medical Director of the Gertrudis hospital Biskirchen, Dr. Fornadi. Many patients go to see the special ambulance with differential diagnostic and therapeutic questions. The ambulance may use the whole diagnostic equipment of the hospital.

Private ambulance

To visit the neurological private ambulance of the Gertrudis hospital patients with private insurance or patients, who pay by their own, do not need a neurologist to refer to. But it is useful as well to bring all results up to now. This ambulance is leaded by Dr. Fornadi, too.

Ambulance registration

For both ambulances
please registrate by phone
under the number ++49 (0)6473-3058011
at Mrs. Wieczorek.

More informations
in the internet:

http://www.parkinson.de
oder:
http://www.parkinson-web.de

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