Luciaklinikken
Many decades of hard work preceded the opening, on 1 July 2017, of the Luciaklinikken, an anthroposophic hospital with twenty beds near Odense. The hospital has now been accredited.
A Danish entrepreneur bought the old castle, Dallund Slot, which previously served as a rehabilitation centre, and made it available to the owners of Luciaklinikken. With further financial support and the voluntary help of numerous people from the area it has been possible to renovate and furnish the building. Nanna Rebecca Kirkebjerg, a GP and anthroposophic physician, is the hospital director.
The hospital, which has twenty beds and 15 part-time staff, offers therapies as well as treatment following surgery, for cancer, stress, ptsd, autoimmune disease and for patients with Burnout syndrome. One of its aims is to conduct research into psychosomatic medicine, for instance in cooperation with the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. Further cooperation is sought with the city of Odense (more than 185,000 inhabitants) and the region of Southern Denmark (around a million inhabitants) as well as with patient organizations and private health insurers.
Funding
In Denmark the health sector is generally funded through tax money but, for the time being, the patients in this private hospital will have to pay their own costs. It is therefore good to know that Luciaklinikken is already financially healthy.