Stay

Documents for admission

• Referral for hospital admission (Einweisungsschein) from your general practitioner or specialist
• Health insurance card of your statutory and/or private health insurer (eGK/Clinic Card)
• Identity card
• Proof of insurance, if you have supplementary hospital insurance

Documents for the doctor

• Documents from your general practitioner, such as previous findings, X-rays, laboratory results and/or list of diagnoses
• Medication schedule (if available)
• Insulin correction schedule for diabetes (if available)
• Pacemaker card (if available)
• Vaccination record (if available)
• Anticoagulant card (Marcumarpass) (if available)
• Allergy card (if available)
• X-ray record (if available)
• Organ donor card (if available)
• Advance directive (Patientenverfügung) (if available)

Personal care and toiletries

• Towels, flannels, shower gel
• Toothbrush, toothpaste and cup
• Dentures, denture container, cleaning agent
• Hand mirror
• Hairdryer
• Shampoo, comb, hairbrush
• Nail scissors, nail file
• Razor
• Creams, deodorant

Clothing

• Pyjamas, nightdresses
• Dressing gown
• Comfortable clothing
• Slippers and outdoor shoes, shoehorn
• Socks or stockings
• Underwear
• Clothes for going home

Other important items

• Glasses
• Hearing aid, including batteries
• Walking stick or other walking aids
• Compression stockings
• Alarm clock/watch
• Writing materials
• Personal list of addresses and telephone numbers
• Books, magazines
• Mobile phone
• Headphones
• Charging cable
• Laptop/tablet
• Small change
• Your own pillow, if you wish
• For people with diabetes: the insulin pen currently in use
• Special medicines

Documents for admission

• Health insurance card of your statutory and/or private health insurer (eGK/Clinic Card)
• Identity card
• Proof of insurance, if you have supplementary hospital insurance

Documents for the midwives or doctors

• Maternity record (Mutterpass)
• Medicines and medication schedule (if available)
• Optionally, a birth plan (wishes/preferences)
• Vaccination record (if available)
• Allergy card (if available)
• X-ray record (if available)

Personal care and toiletries

• Towels, flannels, shower gel
• Toothbrush, toothpaste and cup
• Dentures, denture container, cleaning agent
• Hand mirror
• Hairdryer
• Shampoo, comb, hairbrush
• Nail scissors, nail file
• Razor
• Creams, deodorant
• Nursing pads

Clothing

• Pyjamas, nightdresses
• Nursing bras
• Dressing gown
• Comfortable clothing
• Slippers and outdoor shoes, shoehorn
• Socks or stockings
• Loose, comfortable underwear
• Clothes for going home (that fitted at around the 6th month of pregnancy)

Things for the baby

Only bring things for the journey home! During their stay with us, babies receive everything they need from the hospital.

• Romper/bodysuit
• Light hat
• Top
• Socks
• Jacket
• Infant car seat

For the delivery suite

• Lip balm
• Warm socks
• A small snack, for example a cereal bar
• Hair tie
• Massage oil, if desired

Other items

• Glasses
• Compression stockings
• Alarm clock/watch
• Writing materials
• Personal list of addresses and telephone numbers
• Books, magazines
• Mobile phone
• Headphones
• Charging cable
• Laptop/tablet
• Small change
• Your own pillow, if you wish

Please leave jewellery or other valuables that are important to you, larger sums of money or savings books at home. The Evangelisches Diakoniekrankenhaus cannot accept any liability for these.