Patients

Your treatment at the Földiklinik

The Földiklinik treats patients with disorders of the lymphatic system at all levels of severity. Your treating physician (usually your GP) submits an application for rehabilitation to the responsible funding body, requesting that you be treated at the Földiklinik. For those in employment the pension insurance provider is usually responsible; otherwise the health insurer is.

Your funding body will inform you, and inform us in parallel, as soon as the application has been approved. Because lymphatic conditions vary in severity, your records will be assessed by our interdisciplinary medical team. This assessment often results in a need for further clarification between us and your funding body.

This allows us to ensure that you receive the optimal treatment for your individual condition.

Right to choose

Use your right to choose to receive your treatment at the Földiklinik or another preferred clinic.

What is the right to choose?

Under Section 8 of the German Social Code (SGB IX), every patient has the right to select a facility for inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation themselves. You do not have to limit yourself to any clinic list of your payer (e.g. pension insurance or health insurance fund).

Important: You have the right to freely choose any suitable rehabilitation clinic. The Földiklinik meets all requirements to be your preferred clinic:

The Földiklinik has supply or occupancy contracts with the payers (e.g. under §111 SGB V with the statutory health insurance funds; or under § 38 SGB IX with the German Pension Insurance).
The Földiklinik is certified according to the applicable quality standards
The Földiklinik is demonstrably suitable for the treatment of lymphatic disorders.

How to correctly exercise your right to choose:

If you have not yet submitted an application for rehabilitation, but already have a preferred clinic: submit the form for exercising your right to choose together with the rehabilitation application (Download Portal).
If you have already sent your rehabilitation application but have not yet received a response: submit the form for exercising your right to choose retrospectively and refer to your rehabilitation application (Download Portal).
If your rehabilitation application has already been approved for another clinic: submit an application to change the treatment facility (Download Portal).

What to bear in mind when filling in the form:

Give a clear and precise justification: Your payer decides solely on the basis of your application whether your preferred clinic will be approved. Emphasise the medical suitability of the preferred clinic. The medical suitability of the clinic takes precedence over the requirement to be cost-effective. In other words: if your preferred clinic is medically better suited than the one assigned by the payer, it will be approved, even if this may lead to higher costs.

Arguments in favour of your preferred clinic

If you have not yet submitted a rehabilitation application but already have a preferred clinic: submit the form for exercising your right to choose together with your rehabilitation application. Medical suitability is the strongest argument in favour of your preferred clinic. Further supporting arguments are available in the (Download Portal).

Competent care in a family-like atmosphere

Patients feel well looked after thanks to the friendly and competent care from the clinic staff and notice clear improvements in their ailments.

Vollständiges Transkript

Patient 4

Doctors, nurses, they're actually all really, really great and very competent. And you can talk to them, you can tell them things. They come and ask, 'Is everything OK, do you like it, would you like anything different?' That's really nice. When I know I'm so ill and it doesn't get better. But here, when I leave, it always gets a bit better each time and then I cope again until the next time. Yes, you feel very well looked after, you can always ask, for example in the nurses' station or so. They really do their utmost.

Patient 1

You arrive here and are greeted really nicely to start with. That was already the case on the phone. They're all nice, all friendly. And then the therapies begin. I had no idea at all what to expect. I had only ever had lymphatic drainage. And then suddenly they said 'bandages'. I didn't know what that was.

The next day things had already really changed. There's just real pressure on the arm. And when you take this bandage off — there are different kinds of these bandages — you only then notice how the arm has changed. I've been here two weeks now and I have a completely different sense of life. My pain is much better. The arm suddenly feels much lighter; it's almost half as thick. It's a feeling you can't really describe, because all of a sudden you're dealing with less pain. I'm totally amazed. I'm speechless about it.

Competent care in a family-like atmosphere

I really feel well looked after. The entire team is not only highly competent but also very approachable – you can talk about anything and are always greeted warmly.

Open communication

I particularly appreciate the open communication: whether I have questions or concerns, I am always taken seriously. After every treatment I notice an improvement, and the results are clearly visible: my arm has become noticeably slimmer and the pain has reduced significantly. That gives me a whole new lease on life.

The therapists always ask whether everything is all right or if we should adjust anything. This personal attention makes all the difference to me.

Compression therapy

Important for the success of compression therapy is comprehensive counselling by the physician as well as the correct measurement and fitting of the stockings. This takes place at precisely defined measurement points. To be effective, compression stockings must fit exactly. Medical supply stores with many years of solid expertise in this field reliably provide the most suitable stocking provision.

The prescription of medical compression stockings for the period after inpatient care is carried out by physicians experienced in lymphology in our facility. The made-to-measure medical compression stockings (Class I - IV) are checked for fit and effectiveness before your discharge from the clinic.

Guidelines for the provision of compression stockings

Measurable successes through therapy

Treatment at the Földiklinik leads to significant improvements in patients who, through consistent therapy and their own commitment, can markedly improve their quality of life.

Vollständiges Transkript

Patient

For me, the first stay at the Földiklinik was a game-changer.

Before, things weren't really progressing and during my first stay here they removed two litres of fluid from my left leg, another litre from my right leg, and several more litres of fluid from the rest of my body. And that's, of course, a lot — something I wouldn't have managed otherwise.

Patient 3

I enjoy my stay here too, although the compression — the daily compression — is very demanding, physically tiring. But I take the time for myself and my health.

Patient 2

I receive lymphatic drainage in the mornings and the bandages are put on, and then another follow-up treatment in the afternoons. Over the years I've been coming here I've lost almost 5 litres per leg. And it's an incredible success. Ten kilos, ten litres that you now carry around less. The legs are thinner, softer, and it means a better quality of life.

Patient

I therefore wear relatively strong compression. With this compression I walk about 8 to 10 kilometres a day. That obviously has an effect. On top of that I have two lymphatic drainage sessions a week and I also go swimming. In this way I've managed, over the years, to maintain my condition and even partly improve it.

And now here's the secret. If you do, indeed, have to do so much exercise, your entire cardiovascular system benefits. Yes, that means I'm really fit, and so you can turn that terrible piece of news — that you have a tumour and lymphoedema — into something a little positive.

From stagnation to visible success

For me, the treatment here was a real turning point. Where previously there was hardly any progress to show, I now see clear improvements. The numbers speak for themselves: I have 5 litres less circumference on each of my legs.

The path to success

Although compression therapy is certainly demanding, the visible improvement more than makes up for the effort. I even enjoy the time during the treatment. What once seemed like an endless challenge, I now experience as a manageable task with measurable results.

Wards

The Földi Clinic has 152 beds. Some rooms are fully adapted for people with severe disabilities.

The comfortable rooms are equipped with a shower/WC and some have a south-facing balcony. All rooms are largely accessible and can be reached by lift.

Rooms offer telephone connections and satellite TV – including international channels. Internet/Wi-Fi access is available either in the rooms or in the lounges.

Virtual tour

Take a virtual tour of one of our rooms. Note: it is even more impressive using your phone's orientation sensors.

Accompanying persons

You are welcome to bring accompanying persons, such as children or relatives requiring care, with you during your inpatient stay with us. However, this is subject to a prior internal review. Accompanying persons also have the option, for a separate flat fee, of receiving certain therapies on-site.

For further information, please contact Patient Administration

Childcare

Our clinic offers childcare for children aged 3 and over who come as accompanying persons. For this purpose a children's room, well equipped with plenty of toys and craft materials, is available.

Our little guests are cared for from Monday to Friday.

Childcare hours since 11 March 2024

Monday: 08:00-12:30 + 13:00-16:00
Tuesday: 08:00-12:30
Wednesday: 08:00-12:30 + 13:00-16:00
Thursday: 08:00-12:30
Friday: 08:00-12:30

A signed childcare contract is required, in which the legal guardians provide further information about the child (allergies, etc.) and leave their mobile telephone number.
School children up to Year 4 have the option of attending lessons at Hinterzarten Primary School.
Parents with toddlers (up to 3 years) are welcome to use the children's room. We are unable to accept supervisory responsibility for children under 3 years. Thank you for your understanding.

Information on childcare

Patient Survey

Dear patient,

We sincerely hope you had a pleasant stay at our clinic. Our aim in our work for and with you is to continuously improve the quality of care for the benefit of our patients.

For this reason we rely on your cooperation and would like to ask you to take a moment to complete our questionnaire carefully. You are making an important contribution that helps us to continuously improve. Participation is of course voluntary and your answers will be treated anonymously.

To access the survey, please click here

We would like to thank you very much for your support.

Your review on Klinikbewertungen.de

In addition, we would like to ask you to provide your rating of patient satisfaction on Klinikbewertungen.de.

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With best wishes for your health.
Your team at the Földi Clinic