Institution profile

The Medical Center for Health Bad Lippspringe (MZG-Westfalen) near Paderborn is a network consisting of 5 hospitals with different focuses and more than 900 beds. It is a primary care facility mainly dedicated to internal diseases. In addition to specialist departments in areas such as general internal medicine, ENT, as well as pneumology and infectology, there is also a pain center, a center for sleep medicine, a weaning center, a palliative care unit, and a mental health clinic. Furthermore, the rehabilitation of patients plays an important role at MZG-Westfalen. Among others, the Rehabilitation Clinic for Psychosomatics and Weaning Treatment, the Rehabilitation Clinic for Respiratory and Cardiovascular Diseases, the Oncological Focus Clinic for Follow-Up Rehabilitation, and the Rehabilitation Clinic for Orthopedics, Traumatology and Sports Medicine are integrated into the network of clinics. A school for physiotherapy, speech therapy and occupational therapy (Lippe-Institute) completes the wide range of facilities at MZG-Westfalen. The top priority for every treatment at MZG-Westfalen – apart from restoring physical fitness – is to improve patients’ quality of life. What is special about this UMFST-UMCH teaching hospital is that, among other treatments, medically supervised forest, climate and exercise therapies as well as mindfulness walks take place in the 200-hectare Bad Lippspringe healing forest, which is close to the city. At the MZG-Westfalen, our students thus have the opportunity to learn about other forms of therapy beyond conventional medicine and gain new perspectives as part of the clinical-practical units from the third year of study.