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<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/hamburg-hospital-offers-rooms-for-patients-with-mcs-and-environmental-illness/>Hamburg
hospital offers rooms for patients with MCS and environmental illness

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After much effort, the
<http://www.d-k-h.de/>Agaplesion Diakonie
Hospital in Hamburg, Germany has designed two
rooms for people with MCS and multiple allergies.
For many years, local support groups have worked
tirelessly to try to integrate environmentally
controlled hospital rooms in the hospital. For
the first time ever, it is possible for people
who suffer from environmental illnesses or severe
allergies to be in a hospital for medical
treatment which is tailored to their health issues.

Environmental rooms for MCS, the environmentally
ill, and multiple allergic patients

Since February 2011, with the move into the newly
built Agaplesion DIAKONIE Medical Center in
Hamburg (formerly the hospitals, Old Oaks, and
Bethany Elim), for the first time, a hospital has
<http://csn-deutschland.de/Umweltzimmer_im_Krankenhaus.pdf>two
special pollutant free rooms prepared for those
with environmental allergies, and MCS patients.
The special environmental rooms have been built
with much care. They consist of a single and a
double room. Both rooms are connected by a
vestibule from the other station areas separated
so that chemical-sensitive patients do not come
in contact with the usual hospital chemicals and
fragrances from other patients.

Medical treatment, surgery, obstetrics

The Agaplesion Clinic offers the two
environmental rooms which have been specially
prepared for the treatment of patients in the
medical environment including the following
hospital departments in the with an integrated spectrum:
    * Internal Medicine
    * Geriatrics (geriatric medicine)
    * Diabetes
    * Surgery, Hand Surgery, Plastic Surgery
    * Gynecology, Obstetrics
    * Orthopedics
    * Anasthesia, Intensive Care

Criteria for inclusion in Environmental Room

There is a briefing which takes place through a
doctor or the emergency room. During the first
contact a message states that the patient wants a
shot in the environmental room. The Agaplesion
Clinic requires patients have medical evidence
showing
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/DIMDI_MCS_2008_de-en.pdf>MCS
(multiple chemical sensitivity), environmental
allergies / intolerance (allergy multi-) and / or
a present a chronic intoxication in the patient.
A MCS and / or allergy passport is also useful to
explain the need for inclusion in a special room environment.

Core Unit of the Environment Room

Rooms in conventional hospitals are not suitable
for chemically sensitive patients. In general,
the wards have PVC flooring and particleboard
furniture. The environmental rooms in the
Agaplesion Clinic have given much effort to
create a plan that recognizes the needs of MCS
sufferers with good air quality issues. The two
environmental rooms were built with the low
emission of air pollutants / safe building
materials and furnishings, to ensure the safety for hypersensitive patients.

Some examples of the special features of the environmental room:
    * Walls and ceilings with running Fermacell Green Line plates
    * Massive exterior walls are lime
    * Walls and ceilings painted with lime paint
    * Rooms are equipped with a wall heater
    * Floor is made of ceramic tiles.
    * Window and door frames are insulated with hemp
    * Doors are made of glass
    * Exposure to electromagnetic fields has been
reduced, including through the installation of power circuit breakers
    * Furniture is made of enamel, metal, or stainless steel

The clinic staff shall ensure low-emission patient care:
    * Attention is given to see if there are
fragrance-containing and damaging products in patient vicinity.
    * Patients are asked about their possible
food intolerances to allergies, to drugs,
disinfectants, medicines and anesthetics.
    * A dietitian takes into account the patients’ food intolerances
    * At the medical station information is
summarized, and this can be viewed at any time by medical staff.
    * The staff of the station is working
together very closely with the support group
„environmental illnesses MCS + CFS.”
    * The room environment is cleaned with
fragrance free detergents, but a disinfecting
cleaning is essential to neutralize odors, so the
patient is offered the use of effective microorganisms (EM 1).
    * When necessary, patients may bring their
own food which is kept in a refrigerator at the
door. A kettle is also available there.
    * The bedding of the entire hospital is
fragrance-free but these patients are permitted to bring their own bedding.

Special measures for the benefit of environmental patients
    * The use of fragrance-free and low-polluting
products is offered to patients and their visitors
    * The use of cell phones and smoking are not permitted in this area
    * Living together requires all patients in
the environmental room practice understanding, respect and helpfulness

Hospital life – side note

Important information for environmental patients
and their physicians, that the Agaplesion Clinic
is a hospital and not an environmental clinic. In
a hospital procedures are regulated and special
requests cannot be met. The Agaplesion Clinic
breaks new ground by providing the two
environmental rooms. The employees are trained on
MCS and environmental illness, but they are
dependent on cooperation between the patients, so
that a smooth clinical work can be guaranteed.
Perhaps at first patients won’t have the highest
satisfaction, but patients should be
understanding and possibly contribute
constructive suggestions for improvement since
this is the first attempt at providing
environmentally safe rooms in a hospital. It is
important for patients with chemical sensitivity
(MCS) to realize that this is a new development
at the clinic. For those with
hyper-sensitivities, a stay at the hospital,
despite careful selection of materials, initially
may be fraught with problems because of outgassing and ecological matters.

The Chemically Sensitive are thankful for their commitment

The MCS support groups in Hamburg, which for
years pursued the goal of a “MCS-friendly
hospital room in a hospital” give hearty thanks
and appreciation to the doctors, hospital
planners, architects and government agencies that
were involved in this project. All the best and
much success for the safe environment in the new
rooms at the Agaplesion Clinic!

Author: Silvia K. Müller, CSN – Chemical Sensitivity Network, 1 March 2011

Translation: Christi Howarth

Literature:

Agaplesion Diakonie Hospital
Hamburg,<http://csn-deutschland.de/Umweltzimmer_im_Krankenhaus.pdf>
newsletter: environmental rooms for MCS patients
and the environment / multiple allergies, January 2011

Contact:

Agaplesion DIAKONIE Hospital Hamburg

Hohe Weide 17, 20259 Hamburg, Germany, Tel: (040)
7 90 20 – 0, Fax (040) 7 90 20 – 10 79, E-mail:
[hidden email], Internet: <http://www.d-k-h.de/>www.dkh.de

Further CSN articles about MCS:
    *
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/study-could-not-confirm-link-between-mental-illness-and-chemical-sensitivity/>Study
could not confirm link between mental illness and chemical sensitivity
    *
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/brain-dysfunction-in-mcs-multiple-chemical-sensitivity/>Brain
dysfunction in MCS – Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
    *
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/research-on-multiple-chemical-sensitivity-mcs/>Research
on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
    *
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/a-politically-inconvenient-illness/>A
politically inconvenient illness


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Hi, Lawrence,
 
Theresa Heinz was pushing for this in the US.  However, I saw the design and it called for metal beds and bed springs.  I mentioned this was not a good idea for those with ES, but I do not know whether she (Theresa) got the info, or whether the designs were changed.  I was under the impression that some rooms were in the works for UPMC in Pittsburgh, Pa.  Dr Rae's clinic in Dallas is state of the art for MCS and those with toxin-induced illness, but I read that he also had metal beds and furniture in the rooms and that ES people had problems in them.  This was several years ago.  I think his clinic probably has ES rooms in it now.  His clinic is not a hospital, as such, but a hospital for those with MCS and ES to go and detox.
 
Diane

--- On Thu, 3/3/11, Lawrence A. Plumlee <[hidden email]> wrote:


From: Lawrence A. Plumlee <[hidden email]>
Subject: [eSens] Hospital offers rooms for patients with electrical & chemical accommodations
To: [hidden email]
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 11:20 AM


 




Environmental Medicine Matters Environmental Medicine Matters

Environmental Medicine Matters

<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/hamburg-hospital-offers-rooms-for-patients-with-mcs-and-environmental-illness/>http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/hamburg-hospital-offers-rooms-for-patients-with-mcs-and-environmental-illness/

<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/hamburg-hospital-offers-rooms-for-patients-with-mcs-and-environmental-illness/>Hamburg
hospital offers rooms for patients with MCS and environmental illness

<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Krankenhaus-HH.jpg>
[]

After much effort, the
<http://www.d-k-h.de/>Agaplesion Diakonie
Hospital in Hamburg, Germany has designed two
rooms for people with MCS and multiple allergies.
For many years, local support groups have worked
tirelessly to try to integrate environmentally
controlled hospital rooms in the hospital. For
the first time ever, it is possible for people
who suffer from environmental illnesses or severe
allergies to be in a hospital for medical
treatment which is tailored to their health issues.

Environmental rooms for MCS, the environmentally
ill, and multiple allergic patients

Since February 2011, with the move into the newly
built Agaplesion DIAKONIE Medical Center in
Hamburg (formerly the hospitals, Old Oaks, and
Bethany Elim), for the first time, a hospital has
<http://csn-deutschland.de/Umweltzimmer_im_Krankenhaus.pdf>two
special pollutant free rooms prepared for those
with environmental allergies, and MCS patients.
The special environmental rooms have been built
with much care. They consist of a single and a
double room. Both rooms are connected by a
vestibule from the other station areas separated
so that chemical-sensitive patients do not come
in contact with the usual hospital chemicals and
fragrances from other patients.

Medical treatment, surgery, obstetrics

The Agaplesion Clinic offers the two
environmental rooms which have been specially
prepared for the treatment of patients in the
medical environment including the following
hospital departments in the with an integrated spectrum:
* Internal Medicine
* Geriatrics (geriatric medicine)
* Diabetes
* Surgery, Hand Surgery, Plastic Surgery
* Gynecology, Obstetrics
* Orthopedics
* Anasthesia, Intensive Care

Criteria for inclusion in Environmental Room

There is a briefing which takes place through a
doctor or the emergency room. During the first
contact a message states that the patient wants a
shot in the environmental room. The Agaplesion
Clinic requires patients have medical evidence
showing
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/DIMDI_MCS_2008_de-en.pdf>MCS
(multiple chemical sensitivity), environmental
allergies / intolerance (allergy multi-) and / or
a present a chronic intoxication in the patient.
A MCS and / or allergy passport is also useful to
explain the need for inclusion in a special room environment.

Core Unit of the Environment Room

Rooms in conventional hospitals are not suitable
for chemically sensitive patients. In general,
the wards have PVC flooring and particleboard
furniture. The environmental rooms in the
Agaplesion Clinic have given much effort to
create a plan that recognizes the needs of MCS
sufferers with good air quality issues. The two
environmental rooms were built with the low
emission of air pollutants / safe building
materials and furnishings, to ensure the safety for hypersensitive patients.

Some examples of the special features of the environmental room:
* Walls and ceilings with running Fermacell Green Line plates
* Massive exterior walls are lime
* Walls and ceilings painted with lime paint
* Rooms are equipped with a wall heater
* Floor is made of ceramic tiles.
* Window and door frames are insulated with hemp
* Doors are made of glass
* Exposure to electromagnetic fields has been
reduced, including through the installation of power circuit breakers
* Furniture is made of enamel, metal, or stainless steel

The clinic staff shall ensure low-emission patient care:
* Attention is given to see if there are
fragrance-containing and damaging products in patient vicinity.
* Patients are asked about their possible
food intolerances to allergies, to drugs,
disinfectants, medicines and anesthetics.
* A dietitian takes into account the patients’ food intolerances
* At the medical station information is
summarized, and this can be viewed at any time by medical staff.
* The staff of the station is working
together very closely with the support group
„environmental illnesses MCS + CFS.”
* The room environment is cleaned with
fragrance free detergents, but a disinfecting
cleaning is essential to neutralize odors, so the
patient is offered the use of effective microorganisms (EM 1).
* When necessary, patients may bring their
own food which is kept in a refrigerator at the
door. A kettle is also available there.
* The bedding of the entire hospital is
fragrance-free but these patients are permitted to bring their own bedding.

Special measures for the benefit of environmental patients
* The use of fragrance-free and low-polluting
products is offered to patients and their visitors
* The use of cell phones and smoking are not permitted in this area
* Living together requires all patients in
the environmental room practice understanding, respect and helpfulness

Hospital life – side note

Important information for environmental patients
and their physicians, that the Agaplesion Clinic
is a hospital and not an environmental clinic. In
a hospital procedures are regulated and special
requests cannot be met. The Agaplesion Clinic
breaks new ground by providing the two
environmental rooms. The employees are trained on
MCS and environmental illness, but they are
dependent on cooperation between the patients, so
that a smooth clinical work can be guaranteed.
Perhaps at first patients won’t have the highest
satisfaction, but patients should be
understanding and possibly contribute
constructive suggestions for improvement since
this is the first attempt at providing
environmentally safe rooms in a hospital. It is
important for patients with chemical sensitivity
(MCS) to realize that this is a new development
at the clinic. For those with
hyper-sensitivities, a stay at the hospital,
despite careful selection of materials, initially
may be fraught with problems because of outgassing and ecological matters.

The Chemically Sensitive are thankful for their commitment

The MCS support groups in Hamburg, which for
years pursued the goal of a “MCS-friendly
hospital room in a hospital” give hearty thanks
and appreciation to the doctors, hospital
planners, architects and government agencies that
were involved in this project. All the best and
much success for the safe environment in the new
rooms at the Agaplesion Clinic!

Author: Silvia K. Müller, CSN – Chemical Sensitivity Network, 1 March 2011

Translation: Christi Howarth

Literature:

Agaplesion Diakonie Hospital
Hamburg,<http://csn-deutschland.de/Umweltzimmer_im_Krankenhaus.pdf>
newsletter: environmental rooms for MCS patients
and the environment / multiple allergies, January 2011

Contact:

Agaplesion DIAKONIE Hospital Hamburg

Hohe Weide 17, 20259 Hamburg, Germany, Tel: (040)
7 90 20 – 0, Fax (040) 7 90 20 – 10 79, E-mail:
[hidden email], Internet: <http://www.d-k-h.de/>www.dkh.de

Further CSN articles about MCS:
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/study-could-not-confirm-link-between-mental-illness-and-chemical-sensitivity/>Study
could not confirm link between mental illness and chemical sensitivity
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/brain-dysfunction-in-mcs-multiple-chemical-sensitivity/>Brain
dysfunction in MCS – Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/research-on-multiple-chemical-sensitivity-mcs/>Research
on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/a-politically-inconvenient-illness/>A
politically inconvenient illness

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Hello,
 
I never actually read that the rooms were for sufferers of EHS.  I looked primarily as though it was for MCS sufferers.  While I get that many MCSers are also EHS, not everyone is.  Some some have microwave poisoning.  With glass doors and metal beds can we actually believe that this is for ESers?  For those who are primarily MCS this is a great thing.
 
Pamela

--- On Thu, 3/3/11, Evie <[hidden email]> wrote:


From: Evie <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [eSens] Hospital offers rooms for patients with electrical & chemical accommodations
To: [hidden email]
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 6:07 PM


 



Hi, Lawrence,
 
Theresa Heinz was pushing for this in the US.  However, I saw the design and it called for metal beds and bed springs.  I mentioned this was not a good idea for those with ES, but I do not know whether she (Theresa) got the info, or whether the designs were changed.  I was under the impression that some rooms were in the works for UPMC in Pittsburgh, Pa.  Dr Rae's clinic in Dallas is state of the art for MCS and those with toxin-induced illness, but I read that he also had metal beds and furniture in the rooms and that ES people had problems in them.  This was several years ago.  I think his clinic probably has ES rooms in it now.  His clinic is not a hospital, as such, but a hospital for those with MCS and ES to go and detox.
 
Diane

--- On Thu, 3/3/11, Lawrence A. Plumlee <[hidden email]> wrote:

From: Lawrence A. Plumlee <[hidden email]>
Subject: [eSens] Hospital offers rooms for patients with electrical & chemical accommodations
To: [hidden email]
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 11:20 AM

 

Environmental Medicine Matters Environmental Medicine Matters

Environmental Medicine Matters

<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/hamburg-hospital-offers-rooms-for-patients-with-mcs-and-environmental-illness/>http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/hamburg-hospital-offers-rooms-for-patients-with-mcs-and-environmental-illness/

<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/hamburg-hospital-offers-rooms-for-patients-with-mcs-and-environmental-illness/>Hamburg
hospital offers rooms for patients with MCS and environmental illness

<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Krankenhaus-HH.jpg>
[]

After much effort, the
<http://www.d-k-h.de/>Agaplesion Diakonie
Hospital in Hamburg, Germany has designed two
rooms for people with MCS and multiple allergies.
For many years, local support groups have worked
tirelessly to try to integrate environmentally
controlled hospital rooms in the hospital. For
the first time ever, it is possible for people
who suffer from environmental illnesses or severe
allergies to be in a hospital for medical
treatment which is tailored to their health issues.

Environmental rooms for MCS, the environmentally
ill, and multiple allergic patients

Since February 2011, with the move into the newly
built Agaplesion DIAKONIE Medical Center in
Hamburg (formerly the hospitals, Old Oaks, and
Bethany Elim), for the first time, a hospital has
<http://csn-deutschland.de/Umweltzimmer_im_Krankenhaus.pdf>two
special pollutant free rooms prepared for those
with environmental allergies, and MCS patients.
The special environmental rooms have been built
with much care. They consist of a single and a
double room. Both rooms are connected by a
vestibule from the other station areas separated
so that chemical-sensitive patients do not come
in contact with the usual hospital chemicals and
fragrances from other patients.

Medical treatment, surgery, obstetrics

The Agaplesion Clinic offers the two
environmental rooms which have been specially
prepared for the treatment of patients in the
medical environment including the following
hospital departments in the with an integrated spectrum:
* Internal Medicine
* Geriatrics (geriatric medicine)
* Diabetes
* Surgery, Hand Surgery, Plastic Surgery
* Gynecology, Obstetrics
* Orthopedics
* Anasthesia, Intensive Care

Criteria for inclusion in Environmental Room

There is a briefing which takes place through a
doctor or the emergency room. During the first
contact a message states that the patient wants a
shot in the environmental room. The Agaplesion
Clinic requires patients have medical evidence
showing
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/DIMDI_MCS_2008_de-en.pdf>MCS
(multiple chemical sensitivity), environmental
allergies / intolerance (allergy multi-) and / or
a present a chronic intoxication in the patient.
A MCS and / or allergy passport is also useful to
explain the need for inclusion in a special room environment.

Core Unit of the Environment Room

Rooms in conventional hospitals are not suitable
for chemically sensitive patients. In general,
the wards have PVC flooring and particleboard
furniture. The environmental rooms in the
Agaplesion Clinic have given much effort to
create a plan that recognizes the needs of MCS
sufferers with good air quality issues. The two
environmental rooms were built with the low
emission of air pollutants / safe building
materials and furnishings, to ensure the safety for hypersensitive patients.

Some examples of the special features of the environmental room:
* Walls and ceilings with running Fermacell Green Line plates
* Massive exterior walls are lime
* Walls and ceilings painted with lime paint
* Rooms are equipped with a wall heater
* Floor is made of ceramic tiles.
* Window and door frames are insulated with hemp
* Doors are made of glass
* Exposure to electromagnetic fields has been
reduced, including through the installation of power circuit breakers
* Furniture is made of enamel, metal, or stainless steel

The clinic staff shall ensure low-emission patient care:
* Attention is given to see if there are
fragrance-containing and damaging products in patient vicinity.
* Patients are asked about their possible
food intolerances to allergies, to drugs,
disinfectants, medicines and anesthetics.
* A dietitian takes into account the patients’ food intolerances
* At the medical station information is
summarized, and this can be viewed at any time by medical staff.
* The staff of the station is working
together very closely with the support group
„environmental illnesses MCS + CFS.”
* The room environment is cleaned with
fragrance free detergents, but a disinfecting
cleaning is essential to neutralize odors, so the
patient is offered the use of effective microorganisms (EM 1).
* When necessary, patients may bring their
own food which is kept in a refrigerator at the
door. A kettle is also available there.
* The bedding of the entire hospital is
fragrance-free but these patients are permitted to bring their own bedding.

Special measures for the benefit of environmental patients
* The use of fragrance-free and low-polluting
products is offered to patients and their visitors
* The use of cell phones and smoking are not permitted in this area
* Living together requires all patients in
the environmental room practice understanding, respect and helpfulness

Hospital life – side note

Important information for environmental patients
and their physicians, that the Agaplesion Clinic
is a hospital and not an environmental clinic. In
a hospital procedures are regulated and special
requests cannot be met. The Agaplesion Clinic
breaks new ground by providing the two
environmental rooms. The employees are trained on
MCS and environmental illness, but they are
dependent on cooperation between the patients, so
that a smooth clinical work can be guaranteed.
Perhaps at first patients won’t have the highest
satisfaction, but patients should be
understanding and possibly contribute
constructive suggestions for improvement since
this is the first attempt at providing
environmentally safe rooms in a hospital. It is
important for patients with chemical sensitivity
(MCS) to realize that this is a new development
at the clinic. For those with
hyper-sensitivities, a stay at the hospital,
despite careful selection of materials, initially
may be fraught with problems because of outgassing and ecological matters.

The Chemically Sensitive are thankful for their commitment

The MCS support groups in Hamburg, which for
years pursued the goal of a “MCS-friendly
hospital room in a hospital” give hearty thanks
and appreciation to the doctors, hospital
planners, architects and government agencies that
were involved in this project. All the best and
much success for the safe environment in the new
rooms at the Agaplesion Clinic!

Author: Silvia K. Müller, CSN – Chemical Sensitivity Network, 1 March 2011

Translation: Christi Howarth

Literature:

Agaplesion Diakonie Hospital
Hamburg,<http://csn-deutschland.de/Umweltzimmer_im_Krankenhaus.pdf>
newsletter: environmental rooms for MCS patients
and the environment / multiple allergies, January 2011

Contact:

Agaplesion DIAKONIE Hospital Hamburg

Hohe Weide 17, 20259 Hamburg, Germany, Tel: (040)
7 90 20 – 0, Fax (040) 7 90 20 – 10 79, E-mail:
[hidden email], Internet: <http://www.d-k-h.de/>www.dkh.de

Further CSN articles about MCS:
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/study-could-not-confirm-link-between-mental-illness-and-chemical-sensitivity/>Study
could not confirm link between mental illness and chemical sensitivity
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/brain-dysfunction-in-mcs-multiple-chemical-sensitivity/>Brain
dysfunction in MCS – Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/research-on-multiple-chemical-sensitivity-mcs/>Research
on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/a-politically-inconvenient-illness/>A
politically inconvenient illness

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wow that's great. I don't see a way to put the article on facebook. Loni

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From: pamela clemonts <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [eSens] Hospital offers rooms for patients with electrical & chemical accommodations
To: [hidden email]
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 8:35 PM


 



Hello,
 
I never actually read that the rooms were for sufferers of EHS.  I looked primarily as though it was for MCS sufferers.  While I get that many MCSers are also EHS, not everyone is.  Some some have microwave poisoning.  With glass doors and metal beds can we actually believe that this is for ESers?  For those who are primarily MCS this is a great thing.
 
Pamela

--- On Thu, 3/3/11, Evie <[hidden email]> wrote:

From: Evie <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [eSens] Hospital offers rooms for patients with electrical & chemical accommodations
To: [hidden email]
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 6:07 PM

 

Hi, Lawrence,
 
Theresa Heinz was pushing for this in the US.  However, I saw the design and it called for metal beds and bed springs.  I mentioned this was not a good idea for those with ES, but I do not know whether she (Theresa) got the info, or whether the designs were changed.  I was under the impression that some rooms were in the works for UPMC in Pittsburgh, Pa.  Dr Rae's clinic in Dallas is state of the art for MCS and those with toxin-induced illness, but I read that he also had metal beds and furniture in the rooms and that ES people had problems in them.  This was several years ago.  I think his clinic probably has ES rooms in it now.  His clinic is not a hospital, as such, but a hospital for those with MCS and ES to go and detox.
 
Diane

--- On Thu, 3/3/11, Lawrence A. Plumlee <[hidden email]> wrote:

From: Lawrence A. Plumlee <[hidden email]>
Subject: [eSens] Hospital offers rooms for patients with electrical & chemical accommodations
To: [hidden email]
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 11:20 AM

 

Environmental Medicine Matters Environmental Medicine Matters

Environmental Medicine Matters

<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/hamburg-hospital-offers-rooms-for-patients-with-mcs-and-environmental-illness/>http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/hamburg-hospital-offers-rooms-for-patients-with-mcs-and-environmental-illness/

<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/hamburg-hospital-offers-rooms-for-patients-with-mcs-and-environmental-illness/>Hamburg
hospital offers rooms for patients with MCS and environmental illness

<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Krankenhaus-HH.jpg>
[]

After much effort, the
<http://www.d-k-h.de/>Agaplesion Diakonie
Hospital in Hamburg, Germany has designed two
rooms for people with MCS and multiple allergies.
For many years, local support groups have worked
tirelessly to try to integrate environmentally
controlled hospital rooms in the hospital. For
the first time ever, it is possible for people
who suffer from environmental illnesses or severe
allergies to be in a hospital for medical
treatment which is tailored to their health issues.

Environmental rooms for MCS, the environmentally
ill, and multiple allergic patients

Since February 2011, with the move into the newly
built Agaplesion DIAKONIE Medical Center in
Hamburg (formerly the hospitals, Old Oaks, and
Bethany Elim), for the first time, a hospital has
<http://csn-deutschland.de/Umweltzimmer_im_Krankenhaus.pdf>two
special pollutant free rooms prepared for those
with environmental allergies, and MCS patients.
The special environmental rooms have been built
with much care. They consist of a single and a
double room. Both rooms are connected by a
vestibule from the other station areas separated
so that chemical-sensitive patients do not come
in contact with the usual hospital chemicals and
fragrances from other patients.

Medical treatment, surgery, obstetrics

The Agaplesion Clinic offers the two
environmental rooms which have been specially
prepared for the treatment of patients in the
medical environment including the following
hospital departments in the with an integrated spectrum:
* Internal Medicine
* Geriatrics (geriatric medicine)
* Diabetes
* Surgery, Hand Surgery, Plastic Surgery
* Gynecology, Obstetrics
* Orthopedics
* Anasthesia, Intensive Care

Criteria for inclusion in Environmental Room

There is a briefing which takes place through a
doctor or the emergency room. During the first
contact a message states that the patient wants a
shot in the environmental room. The Agaplesion
Clinic requires patients have medical evidence
showing
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/DIMDI_MCS_2008_de-en.pdf>MCS
(multiple chemical sensitivity), environmental
allergies / intolerance (allergy multi-) and / or
a present a chronic intoxication in the patient.
A MCS and / or allergy passport is also useful to
explain the need for inclusion in a special room environment.

Core Unit of the Environment Room

Rooms in conventional hospitals are not suitable
for chemically sensitive patients. In general,
the wards have PVC flooring and particleboard
furniture. The environmental rooms in the
Agaplesion Clinic have given much effort to
create a plan that recognizes the needs of MCS
sufferers with good air quality issues. The two
environmental rooms were built with the low
emission of air pollutants / safe building
materials and furnishings, to ensure the safety for hypersensitive patients.

Some examples of the special features of the environmental room:
* Walls and ceilings with running Fermacell Green Line plates
* Massive exterior walls are lime
* Walls and ceilings painted with lime paint
* Rooms are equipped with a wall heater
* Floor is made of ceramic tiles.
* Window and door frames are insulated with hemp
* Doors are made of glass
* Exposure to electromagnetic fields has been
reduced, including through the installation of power circuit breakers
* Furniture is made of enamel, metal, or stainless steel

The clinic staff shall ensure low-emission patient care:
* Attention is given to see if there are
fragrance-containing and damaging products in patient vicinity.
* Patients are asked about their possible
food intolerances to allergies, to drugs,
disinfectants, medicines and anesthetics.
* A dietitian takes into account the patients’ food intolerances
* At the medical station information is
summarized, and this can be viewed at any time by medical staff.
* The staff of the station is working
together very closely with the support group
„environmental illnesses MCS + CFS.”
* The room environment is cleaned with
fragrance free detergents, but a disinfecting
cleaning is essential to neutralize odors, so the
patient is offered the use of effective microorganisms (EM 1).
* When necessary, patients may bring their
own food which is kept in a refrigerator at the
door. A kettle is also available there.
* The bedding of the entire hospital is
fragrance-free but these patients are permitted to bring their own bedding.

Special measures for the benefit of environmental patients
* The use of fragrance-free and low-polluting
products is offered to patients and their visitors
* The use of cell phones and smoking are not permitted in this area
* Living together requires all patients in
the environmental room practice understanding, respect and helpfulness

Hospital life – side note

Important information for environmental patients
and their physicians, that the Agaplesion Clinic
is a hospital and not an environmental clinic. In
a hospital procedures are regulated and special
requests cannot be met. The Agaplesion Clinic
breaks new ground by providing the two
environmental rooms. The employees are trained on
MCS and environmental illness, but they are
dependent on cooperation between the patients, so
that a smooth clinical work can be guaranteed.
Perhaps at first patients won’t have the highest
satisfaction, but patients should be
understanding and possibly contribute
constructive suggestions for improvement since
this is the first attempt at providing
environmentally safe rooms in a hospital. It is
important for patients with chemical sensitivity
(MCS) to realize that this is a new development
at the clinic. For those with
hyper-sensitivities, a stay at the hospital,
despite careful selection of materials, initially
may be fraught with problems because of outgassing and ecological matters.

The Chemically Sensitive are thankful for their commitment

The MCS support groups in Hamburg, which for
years pursued the goal of a “MCS-friendly
hospital room in a hospital” give hearty thanks
and appreciation to the doctors, hospital
planners, architects and government agencies that
were involved in this project. All the best and
much success for the safe environment in the new
rooms at the Agaplesion Clinic!

Author: Silvia K. Müller, CSN – Chemical Sensitivity Network, 1 March 2011

Translation: Christi Howarth

Literature:

Agaplesion Diakonie Hospital
Hamburg,<http://csn-deutschland.de/Umweltzimmer_im_Krankenhaus.pdf>
newsletter: environmental rooms for MCS patients
and the environment / multiple allergies, January 2011

Contact:

Agaplesion DIAKONIE Hospital Hamburg

Hohe Weide 17, 20259 Hamburg, Germany, Tel: (040)
7 90 20 – 0, Fax (040) 7 90 20 – 10 79, E-mail:
[hidden email], Internet: <http://www.d-k-h.de/>www.dkh.de

Further CSN articles about MCS:
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/study-could-not-confirm-link-between-mental-illness-and-chemical-sensitivity/>Study
could not confirm link between mental illness and chemical sensitivity
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/brain-dysfunction-in-mcs-multiple-chemical-sensitivity/>Brain
dysfunction in MCS – Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/research-on-multiple-chemical-sensitivity-mcs/>Research
on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/a-politically-inconvenient-illness/>A
politically inconvenient illness

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Thanks for the info.

A couple of years ago my son was in the hospital for septic shock (a result of
bad medical care) for a week.  I don't know who felt worse at the hospital him
of myself.  I have given my husband instructions in case I am ever hospitalize
without the ability to communicate.  Things like: a room at the end of the hall,
a room as far away from the nurses station as possible, unplug everything in the
room that is not medically necessary, no electronic bed unless necessary, a bed
and mattress with less metal, home care option as soon as possible, etc., plus
all the MCS stuff as well.

As much as we might need hospital care, it would be hard on us, EMS and/or MCS
sufferers.  Plus it would be hard to tell the medical staff if we were feeling
better with what brought us to the hospital because all the EMS and MCS stuff
would be making us ill.

Take care,

Jennie

 



________________________________
From: Loni <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Sent: Fri, March 4, 2011 11:01:33 AM
Subject: Re: [eSens] Hospital offers rooms for patients with electrical &
chemical  accommodations

 
wow that's great. I don't see a way to put the article on facebook. Loni

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From: pamela clemonts <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [eSens] Hospital offers rooms for patients with electrical &
chemical accommodations
To: [hidden email]
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 8:35 PM

 

Hello,
 
I never actually read that the rooms were for sufferers of EHS.  I looked
primarily as though it was for MCS sufferers.  While I get that many MCSers are
also EHS, not everyone is.  Some some have microwave poisoning.  With glass
doors and metal beds can we actually believe that this is for ESers?  For those
who are primarily MCS this is a great thing.
 
Pamela

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From: Evie <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [eSens] Hospital offers rooms for patients with electrical &
chemical accommodations
To: [hidden email]
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 6:07 PM

 

Hi, Lawrence,
 
Theresa Heinz was pushing for this in the US.  However, I saw the design and it
called for metal beds and bed springs.  I mentioned this was not a good idea for
those with ES, but I do not know whether she (Theresa) got the info, or whether
the designs were changed.  I was under the impression that some rooms were in
the works for UPMC in Pittsburgh, Pa.  Dr Rae's clinic in Dallas is state of the
art for MCS and those with toxin-induced illness, but I read that he also had
metal beds and furniture in the rooms and that ES people had problems in them.  
This was several years ago.  I think his clinic probably has ES rooms in it
now.  His clinic is not a hospital, as such, but a hospital for those with MCS
and ES to go and detox.
 
Diane

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From: Lawrence A. Plumlee <[hidden email]>
Subject: [eSens] Hospital offers rooms for patients with electrical & chemical
accommodations
To: [hidden email]
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 11:20 AM

 

Environmental Medicine Matters Environmental Medicine Matters

Environmental Medicine Matters

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<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/hamburg-hospital-offers-rooms-for-patients-with-mcs-and-environmental-illness/>Hamburg
 
hospital offers rooms for patients with MCS and environmental illness

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[]

After much effort, the
<http://www.d-k-h.de/>Agaplesion Diakonie
Hospital in Hamburg, Germany has designed two
rooms for people with MCS and multiple allergies.
For many years, local support groups have worked
tirelessly to try to integrate environmentally
controlled hospital rooms in the hospital. For
the first time ever, it is possible for people
who suffer from environmental illnesses or severe
allergies to be in a hospital for medical
treatment which is tailored to their health issues.

Environmental rooms for MCS, the environmentally
ill, and multiple allergic patients

Since February 2011, with the move into the newly
built Agaplesion DIAKONIE Medical Center in
Hamburg (formerly the hospitals, Old Oaks, and
Bethany Elim), for the first time, a hospital has
<http://csn-deutschland.de/Umweltzimmer_im_Krankenhaus.pdf>two
special pollutant free rooms prepared for those
with environmental allergies, and MCS patients.
The special environmental rooms have been built
with much care. They consist of a single and a
double room. Both rooms are connected by a
vestibule from the other station areas separated
so that chemical-sensitive patients do not come
in contact with the usual hospital chemicals and
fragrances from other patients.

Medical treatment, surgery, obstetrics

The Agaplesion Clinic offers the two
environmental rooms which have been specially
prepared for the treatment of patients in the
medical environment including the following
hospital departments in the with an integrated spectrum:
* Internal Medicine
* Geriatrics (geriatric medicine)
* Diabetes
* Surgery, Hand Surgery, Plastic Surgery
* Gynecology, Obstetrics
* Orthopedics
* Anasthesia, Intensive Care

Criteria for inclusion in Environmental Room

There is a briefing which takes place through a
doctor or the emergency room. During the first
contact a message states that the patient wants a
shot in the environmental room. The Agaplesion
Clinic requires patients have medical evidence
showing
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/DIMDI_MCS_2008_de-en.pdf>MCS
(multiple chemical sensitivity), environmental
allergies / intolerance (allergy multi-) and / or
a present a chronic intoxication in the patient.
A MCS and / or allergy passport is also useful to
explain the need for inclusion in a special room environment.

Core Unit of the Environment Room

Rooms in conventional hospitals are not suitable
for chemically sensitive patients. In general,
the wards have PVC flooring and particleboard
furniture. The environmental rooms in the
Agaplesion Clinic have given much effort to
create a plan that recognizes the needs of MCS
sufferers with good air quality issues. The two
environmental rooms were built with the low
emission of air pollutants / safe building
materials and furnishings, to ensure the safety for hypersensitive patients.

Some examples of the special features of the environmental room:
* Walls and ceilings with running Fermacell Green Line plates
* Massive exterior walls are lime
* Walls and ceilings painted with lime paint
* Rooms are equipped with a wall heater
* Floor is made of ceramic tiles.
* Window and door frames are insulated with hemp
* Doors are made of glass
* Exposure to electromagnetic fields has been
reduced, including through the installation of power circuit breakers
* Furniture is made of enamel, metal, or stainless steel

The clinic staff shall ensure low-emission patient care:
* Attention is given to see if there are
fragrance-containing and damaging products in patient vicinity.
* Patients are asked about their possible
food intolerances to allergies, to drugs,
disinfectants, medicines and anesthetics.
* A dietitian takes into account the patients’ food intolerances
* At the medical station information is
summarized, and this can be viewed at any time by medical staff.
* The staff of the station is working
together very closely with the support group
„environmental illnesses MCS + CFS.”
* The room environment is cleaned with
fragrance free detergents, but a disinfecting
cleaning is essential to neutralize odors, so the
patient is offered the use of effective microorganisms (EM 1).
* When necessary, patients may bring their
own food which is kept in a refrigerator at the
door. A kettle is also available there.
* The bedding of the entire hospital is
fragrance-free but these patients are permitted to bring their own bedding.

Special measures for the benefit of environmental patients
* The use of fragrance-free and low-polluting
products is offered to patients and their visitors
* The use of cell phones and smoking are not permitted in this area
* Living together requires all patients in
the environmental room practice understanding, respect and helpfulness

Hospital life – side note

Important information for environmental patients
and their physicians, that the Agaplesion Clinic
is a hospital and not an environmental clinic. In
a hospital procedures are regulated and special
requests cannot be met. The Agaplesion Clinic
breaks new ground by providing the two
environmental rooms. The employees are trained on
MCS and environmental illness, but they are
dependent on cooperation between the patients, so
that a smooth clinical work can be guaranteed.
Perhaps at first patients won’t have the highest
satisfaction, but patients should be
understanding and possibly contribute
constructive suggestions for improvement since
this is the first attempt at providing
environmentally safe rooms in a hospital. It is
important for patients with chemical sensitivity
(MCS) to realize that this is a new development
at the clinic. For those with
hyper-sensitivities, a stay at the hospital,
despite careful selection of materials, initially
may be fraught with problems because of outgassing and ecological matters.

The Chemically Sensitive are thankful for their commitment

The MCS support groups in Hamburg, which for
years pursued the goal of a “MCS-friendly
hospital room in a hospital” give hearty thanks
and appreciation to the doctors, hospital
planners, architects and government agencies that
were involved in this project. All the best and
much success for the safe environment in the new
rooms at the Agaplesion Clinic!

Author: Silvia K. Müller, CSN – Chemical Sensitivity Network, 1 March 2011

Translation: Christi Howarth

Literature:

Agaplesion Diakonie Hospital
Hamburg,<http://csn-deutschland.de/Umweltzimmer_im_Krankenhaus.pdf>
newsletter: environmental rooms for MCS patients
and the environment / multiple allergies, January 2011

Contact:

Agaplesion DIAKONIE Hospital Hamburg

Hohe Weide 17, 20259 Hamburg, Germany, Tel: (040)
7 90 20 – 0, Fax (040) 7 90 20 – 10 79, E-mail:
[hidden email], Internet: <http://www.d-k-h.de/>www.dkh.de

Further CSN articles about MCS:
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/study-could-not-confirm-link-between-mental-illness-and-chemical-sensitivity/>Study
 
could not confirm link between mental illness and chemical sensitivity
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/brain-dysfunction-in-mcs-multiple-chemical-sensitivity/>Brain
 
dysfunction in MCS – Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/research-on-multiple-chemical-sensitivity-mcs/>Research
 
on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
*
<http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/a-politically-inconvenient-illness/>A
politically inconvenient illness

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