{"id":4268,"date":"2023-08-16T09:52:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T07:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lvbwapk.de\/2023\/08\/16\/right-to-free-choice-of-hospital-which-psychiatric-hospital-is-responsible\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T08:43:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T06:43:19","slug":"right-to-free-choice-of-hospital-which-psychiatric-hospital-is-responsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lvbwapk.de\/en\/2023\/08\/16\/right-to-free-choice-of-hospital-which-psychiatric-hospital-is-responsible\/","title":{"rendered":"Right to free choice of hospital? Which psychiatric hospital is responsible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1692172549191{margin-right: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1692174134543{margin-right: 30px !important;}&#8221;]The free choice of hospital also applies in principle to people with mental illness. However, there are psychiatric hospitals that have a service mandate for a specific region. These clinics must accept patients from within their jurisdiction. All other clinics can admit if they have capacity and want to admit.<\/p>\n<p>In this respect, the choice of hospital is basically &#8220;free&#8221;, but due to high occupancy rates or the specialization of hospitals, they are usually assigned to a &#8220;care clinic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>An <strong>overview of<\/strong> all psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric departments as well as facilities and services for mentally ill people can be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/sozialministerium.baden-wuerttemberg.de\/de\/service\/publikation\/did\/wegweiser-psychiatrie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n  <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n    <strong>Guide to Psychiatry<\/strong><br \/>\n  <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a> of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Integration Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. The Psychiatry Guide is organized by region and city\/county.<\/p>\n<p>As a rule, the general practitioner, the psychiatrist in private practice or (psychological) psychotherapist issues a referral to a clinic. These can also provide information about possible clinics (with specializations for certain diseases, if applicable).<\/p>\n<p>In the case of <strong>compulsory hospital<\/strong> ization, the principle of free choice of hospital does <strong>not<\/strong> apply. Here, <strong>admission is made to the psychiatric hospital responsible for the region<\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">[vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1692172549191{margin-right: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1692174134543{margin-right: 30px !important;}&#8221;]The free choice of hospital also applies in principle to people with mental illness. However, there are psychiatric hospitals that have a service mandate for a specific region. These <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lvbwapk.de\/en\/2023\/08\/16\/right-to-free-choice-of-hospital-which-psychiatric-hospital-is-responsible\/\" title=\"Right to free choice of hospital? Which psychiatric hospital is responsible?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,180],"tags":[192,194,191],"class_list":["post-4268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-law","category-psychoeducation","tag-forced-induction","tag-guide-to-psychiatry","tag-hospital-choice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lvbwapk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lvbwapk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lvbwapk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lvbwapk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lvbwapk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.lvbwapk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4300,"href":"https:\/\/www.lvbwapk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions\/4300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lvbwapk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lvbwapk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lvbwapk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lvbwapk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}