Health: Centers for social psychiatry Riedstadt and Heppenheim formally denationalizes

The two southhessian centers for social psychiatry in Riedstadt (913 persons employed, 44.1 million euro conversion) and Heppenheim (573 persons employed, 23.9 million euro) were converted retroactively to 1 January into non-profit limited companies (gGmbH), which will stand as psychiatry group under a common management. The reported the director of the hessian national welfare organisation (LWV), Uwe bridging man, with a press conference in the Philipps hospital, with which he presented the 51 years old Siegfried Hüttenberger as a new group managing director of both mechanisms. The entry of the societies freed the way for it into the trade register at the end of of July, as bridging man communicated. The two mechanisms in Riedstadt and Heppenheim were so far own establishments of the LWV.

A goal of the transformation and summary of the two psychiatric hospitals to a group is after the words of the LWV director both the use of so-called synergies and further saving possibilities.