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The chief medical team at the Alsfeld district hospital is complete again after the summer holidays: Kathrina Hennighausen is taking over the management of geriatrics.
Alsfeld – With Kathrina Hennighausen, the district hospital of the Vogelsberg district in Alsfeld (KKA) has gained a new chief doctor for geriatrics, who will be responsible for geriatric medicine in the future and wants to further develop it. In April, Dr. Johannes Georg Elsing leaves the clinicin order to work as an employed doctor in a general practice in the future.
As the district hospital announced, managing director Volker Röhrig, authorized signatory Jan Klassert and medical director Dr. Steffen Lancee the new colleague. “With Kathrina Hennighausen, we welcome a distinguished geriatrics expert who will in future be responsible for geriatrics and, together with the other clinics, the holistic care of the patients entrusted to us within the framework of geriatric medicine at the KKA,” said Röhrig.
The new chief physician has family roots in the Alsfeld district hospital
Hennighausen, who has additional qualifications in emergency and palliative medicine, among other things, studied at the University of Giessen and then gained professional experience in Schwalmstadt, Fulda, Kassel and Bad Hersfeld. For her, the return to Alsfeld is also personally significant: her great-grandfather Dr. Adolf Weber, her grandfather Dr. Heinrich Hennighausen and her godfather Dr. Udo Hennighausen helped shape the history of the district hospital. “I feel a great connection to the KKA, to Alsfeld and to the people of the region. All of this makes it special for me to further advance geriatrics in Alsfeld in the new building for the future,” explained Hennighausen.
With a view to the planned new KKA building, the new chief physician has clear goals. It strives for a close network of geriatrics with referring doctors, old people's and nursing homes and social wards. “I am therefore striving for a well-networked geriatrics structure in which there is a trusting, collegial exchange between referring doctors, old people’s and nursing homes and the social wards,” said Hennighausen. She is also planning to work with the new head of trauma surgery, Dr. Weber to further expand modern geriatric traumatology at the KKA. She particularly emphasized the importance of the team: “High-quality geriatric treatment is only possible in a multiprofessional team. This is the most important potential for successfully accompanying patients in the recovery process.”
Managing director Röhrig was ultimately convinced of the new appointment: “As an expert with many years of experience, Kathrina Hennighausen brings with her everything that is needed for highly qualified geriatric work at the KKA. In combination with the new building, a real benefit for patients from the Vogelsberg district and beyond.”
