The General Teaching Hospital in Prague has renovated one of the buildings on the premises of the Psychiatric Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and the General Hospital, where a new Day Care Center will be established, meeting the needs for comprehensive care for the mentally ill in the 21st century. The day care center for adults, adolescents and patients with eating disorders, which had previously been temporarily located in the original central building of the clinic, is being moved to the “Voračických Palace from Paběnice”. The day care center for clients over 65 years of age will remain in the existing premises.

"Day care centers can replace hospitalization in the case of developing serious mental disorders and also play a role in the very sensitive post-hospitalization period, when there is a need for gradual involvement and increasing demands on the patient who is returning to life," says doc. MUDr. Martin Anders, Ph.D., head of the Psychiatric Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and the General Hospital, and adds: "Each such program must be specifically tailored to the needs of patients and cannot be operated for all groups at once. Therefore, we very much welcome the fact that a historic building that has already served patients in the past has been successfully renovated."

The new premises offer comprehensive facilities for patients and the caring multidisciplinary team. There is a classroom and therapy rooms for individual, group and family therapy, interviews, crisis intervention, psychoeducation and other therapeutic activities. Therapeutic full-spectrum lights are installed in the building. Their use fully complies with the recently approved Methodology certified by the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic.

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