Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke

About Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke

Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, combines medical treatment at the highest scientific level with integrative offers of anthroposophic medicine, therapy, and care as an acute hospital. The goal is to address the individual life circumstances and needs of the patients. Annually, more than 50,000 people benefit from this holistic treatment approach - from Herdecke and all of Germany, both outpatient and inpatient. Around 2,000 employees work in the GKH Group. The hospital has 540 beds in 17 specialized departments. The range of services includes basic and standard care in internal medicine and surgery, as well as supra-regional center care in the fields of neurology, neurosurgery, pediatrics, gynecology & obstetrics, and psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychosomatics. The Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke, opened in 1969, is the largest anthroposophic hospital in Germany, has its own nursing school - the Dörthe-Krause-Institut - and a school for sick children, the Ita-Wegman-Schule. As a teaching hospital of the University of Witten/Herdecke, there is close cooperation, particularly in the training of medical students, with the integrated companion study program Anthroposophic Medicine (IBAM), as well as in research and teaching.