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Otto-Fricke Hospital

The Otto-Fricke Hospital, a centre for geriatrics and orthopaedics located in Wiesbaden and in Bad Schwalbach, is the second oldest Hessian specialist hospital for geriatrics and focuses on the acute medical treatment of diseases which are frequently attributable to high age, for example, the consequences of stroke or age-related heart and circulatory diseases. Emphasis is laid on diagnostics and the treatment of neurologically induced language, speech and swallowing disorders, as well as diagnostics and consulting in relation to suspected Alzheimer diseases. In the Bad Schwalbach clinic, there is a separate area with special patient amenities, as well as an area for patients with severe cognitive impairments who are in need of acute medical care.

The hospital looks after and treats the patients already in the acute phase of a disease and complies with all the performance characteristics and medical standards required nowadays in geriatrics and orthopaedics. The Wiesbaden clinic of the Otto-Fricke Hospital is situated on the premises of the HSK, Wilhelm Fresenius Klinik, since February 2011. Patients will benefit from the immediate connection to a large hospital and at the same time the Otto Fricke Hospital will provide a central contribution to the optimal geriatric care for patients from Wiesbaden and the Rheingau-Taunus district. The hospital’s offer in cludes a fully inpatient bed area as well as a geriatric outpatient clinic, a memory clinic, an outpatient department for language and speech disorders as well as offers in the field of inpatient and partly inpatient care of the elderly.

Admission by all independent physicians or direct transfer from primary care hospitals. Accredited for all statutory and private health insurances; a total of 141 fully inpatient beds, thereof 28 beds at the Wiesbaden clinic; 6 partly inpatient beds. There is a shuttle service for patients of the outpatient day clinic.