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From your Arrival to your discharge
A stay in hospital - especially if it is for a number of days - always entails a change to your daily routine. Many things are unknown to you and hence numerous questions arise; starting with how to reach us and ending with questions regarding your follow-up treatment after your discharge from hospital.
We have therefore summarised the most important information for you. This information will help you to cope more easily with the unfamiliar environment and the new situation.
Before starting out for our Hospitals, you should check that you have packed everything that you need.
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Please leave large sums of money and valuables at home. You should also leave your mobile/cell phone at home - the use of mobile/cell phones is not permitted in the hospital buildings. You can be provided with your own bedside telephone for the duration of your stay.
Please check the location of the hospital in which you will be treated before you start your journey. Our Hospitals are situated in the vicinity of the town centre ("Tal" Hospitals) or on the Schnarrenberg ("Berg" Hospitals).
Patients' bus
A patients' bus commutes between these two hospital sites every 20 minutes.
The local public transport services provide excellent connections to the University Hospitals. From the main railway station - directly opposite of which you will find the main bus station - you can reach all our Hospitals with the town buses ("Stadtbus"). Please check whether your train or flight ticket is also valid for bus services.
With bus routes no. 5, 13, 18, 19 and the night buses ("Nachtbus") N97 and N94, you can reach the "Tal" Hospitals in next to no time. The "Berg" Hospitals can be reached with bus routes no. 5, 13, 17, 18, 19, no. 14 from the West railway station ("Westbahnhof"), and the night buses N93 and N94.
Further information
*Website in German language
If you are travelling by car, please follow the town's traffic signs. A traffic routing system will direct you to both the "Tal" and the "Berg" Hospitals. Detailed directions to each location can be found on the respective hospital's web pages.
Apart from the multi-storey car parks, there are no other long-term parking spaces available on the hospital premises.
If you have problems walking or are confined to a wheelchair, your car may be driven directly onto the respective hospital premises in order for you to disembark from or to get into your vehicle. Please ask for further information at the gate. There are also a number of parking areas for the disabled available at various locations on the premises.
Stuttgart Airport is situated approximately 35 kilometres from Tübingen. By car, Tübingen can be reached via an expressway in approximately 20 minutes. Please plan in a little more time if you will be making this journey during rush-hour periods. A taxi from the airport to the University Hospitals will cost you approximately 40 euros. A bus service operating in both directions several times a day between the airport and Tübingen's main railway station is an additional option.
Further information
The information stored on this card includes your name, date of birth, case number, your health insurance details and the ward in which you will be accommodated. This ensures that other departments, such as the X-ray department or the lab. also receive the information they require, and that the doctor responsible for your treatment receives your medical records.
The ward's nursing staff will show you to your room. Nearly all the patients' rooms have their own bath and toilet, washing facilities, or a shower. Personal items can be stored in a lockable cabinet or in the bedside table unit. The bedside table is also equipped with a lamp and a "so-called" media panel with a radio and a patient's call button.
No smoking, please!
Smoking is prohibited in all the hospital buildings. You are requested to show consideration for the other patients, staff and visitors! You may only smoke in the especially designated areas outside the hospital buildings.
Please find out the times of the ward rounds from the ward's nursing staff, and make sure that you are in your room when these rounds take place.
Please also appreciate that you may sometimes find a number of people standing around your bed: The University Hospital trains students and young doctors. Don't be afraid to ask your doctor to explain everything you want to know during these rounds.
You have the right to be fully briefed on the treatment you are receiving. The University Hospital Tübingen doctors and staff will to do their very best to explain your illness and your treatment to you. But if anything is still not completely clear, please ask them again to explain everything you want to know in greater detail. Should an operation or similar surgical procedure be necessary, your doctor must first advise you of its necessity, the possible risks involved and the type and scale of the surgical procedure required.
You must agree to such treatment and give your consent in writing. This written consent can only be disregarded in the case of a life-threatening emergency which requires immediate medical action.
The staff at the University Hospital are duty-bound to maintain strict confidentiality. We are bound to maintain strict confidentiality on your illness and any information you have given us in confidence. We are not permitted to pass any such information on to a third party. If you wish, you can, however, release your doctor from his duty to maintain strict confidentiality. This will permit him to pass on information to persons nominated by you.
All data which we have received concerning your admission, which of course includes all information about your illness and treatment, is subject to the statutory provisions for data protection and is treated in accordance with the legal stipulations for data protection.
If you are being admitted as an in-patient, please bring with you all the medication which you take regularly at home. You should then discuss with your doctor on the ward, whether it is necessary for you to continue to take this medication whilst you are in hospital, or not.
If your health has improved to such an extent that you can now be looked after by relatives or are even able to take care of yourself, your doctor will discuss your discharge with you. You can discuss any outstanding questions which you may have with him. You will normally also be given a referral note for the doctor who will be continuing your medical treatment. If, after your period of hospitalisation, you need to be transferred to a different hospital for rehabilitation measures, our social advisory services will take care of the formalities and in most cases also organise the transport to the location of your follow-up rehabilitation treatment.
Please do not forget to take all your personal items with you when you leave our Hospital!
If you would like to pay your personal contribution fee when you leave the hospital, you can do so at the "Berg" and Crona Hospitals' pay office. The office is located in the foyer, level A4, in the passageway leading to the Children's Hospital. For all other hospitals, please enquire in the respective hospital.
When you are back at home, you will receive a questionnaire from us concerning your period of hospitalisation. The staff at the University Hospital are constantly striving to improve the care of our patients and to remedy any possible shortcomings. Feedback from you will help us to do this.
