Address
Medical Clinic
Lift C, Level 3
Albert-Einstein-Allee 23
89081 Ulm
Phone: 0731/ 500-45617
Fax: 0731/ 500-45615
E-mail: m3p.pflegeoe@uniklinik-ulm.de
Our team
Psycho-oncology
Dr Klaus Hönig
Psychological psychotherapist | Head of consultation and liaison psychosomatics
Social counselling service
Gabriele Neubronner
Qualified social pedagogue (FH) with additional qualification in palliative care
Physiotherapy
Joachim Ruoff
Catholic pastoral care
Paul Kugler
Protestant pastoral care
Pastor Friederike Strauss
Visiting service "Green Ladies and Gentlemen"
Mr Rudolf Vogel
Bridge Care Ulm, SAPV, PNU
Jochen Kraus, Head of the Bridge Care Centre
Brigitte Günther
Sigrid Heintel
Irmgard Scheu
Kerstin Tomm
Our tasks
The Latin word "palliare" means "to wrap with a cloak" - this is precisely the aim of palliative medicine at Ulm University Hospital in a figurative sense.
Patients whose cancer is no longer curable receive holistic care in our palliative care ward (M3p) from a specially trained, interdisciplinary team.
The primary task of the palliative care unit is to support seriously ill patients and their relatives in their special situation. All efforts are aimed at improving the quality of life. This first requires a thorough diagnosis to determine the patient's current condition. This is followed by the necessary therapy settings (pain control, provision of medication, physiotherapy). Above all, further care beyond the stay in the clinic is planned and organised.
The first option is always to return to the patient's familiar home environment. The support required for this (aids; assistance from the bridge nursing service or another SAPV team; spiritual counselling) is discussed and planned.
If a return to familiar surroundings is not possible, a stay in short-term care or a move to a hospice is another option.
Unfortunately, the palliative care ward is often seen as a "death ward" - but it is definitely not!
Our aims are
- Treating the after-effects of cancer, such as nausea, breathlessness, exhaustion or pain
- Improving the quality of life
- Counselling relatives in practical, psychological and pastoral issues
Our Ulm palliative network includes close cooperation with
- Specialised outpatient palliative care (SAPV), PNU (APU e.V.) Central Swabia
- the bridge care of the CCCU Ulm
- with neighbouring hospice and care facilities
- the practising oncologists and GPs in the surrounding area
- the outpatient care services
Our team consists of
- doctors
- specialised nurses
- psycho-oncologists
- Physiotherapists
- Clinic chaplains
- Social service staff
- Art therapists
Our rooms offer
- Space for 8 patients
- Rooms for personal discussions, painting therapy, physiotherapy
- a large lounge for patients to relax or socialise with visitors
- to the photo gallery...
Inpatient admission
- by appointment by telephone
- Please note our admission criteria: Admission form.pdf
Further information:
The palliative care ward was relocated on 11 May 2015. Since then, a spacious ward for adult patients suffering from an incurably advanced tumour disease has been available on level 3.
A team of specially trained staff is available to care for the 8 patient places. It is made up of doctors, oncological nurses, psycho-oncologists, physiotherapists, hospital chaplains, social services staff and art therapists. There is close cooperation with Specialised Outpatient Palliative Care (SAPV), Brückenpflege Ulm, the surrounding hospice facilities, oncologists in private practice and GPs in the surrounding area, as well as outpatient nursing services.
Patients and relatives must be fully informed about the palliative situation before being admitted to hospital. Reasons for admission can be all symptoms of a tumour disease that are difficult to treat on an outpatient basis.
In individual cases, as on any other ward, experts from all specialities can be consulted, and all interventional and diagnostic facilities of the University Hospital are available.
The palliative care ward is primarily there to do special justice to these seriously ill patients and their relatives by endeavouring to improve their quality of life in order to ensure that they receive further care after their stay.
A palliative care ward is expressly not a "death ward".