How much freedom does someone have who can only breathe through a tube in their nose? Who suffocates if the mucus cannot be sucked out of the windpipe within minutes? Needs care 24 hours a day, seven days a week because an illness dominates his life? “We want to create as much freedom and participation in normal life as possible,” say Thomas Steigerwald and Joachim Nürnberger. According to their information, both will in March first intensive care residential community in the Main-Spessart district open.
Nine residents will be able to move into the Marktheidenfelder Baumhofstrasse. The offer is aimed at everyone who has “a permanent need for medical intervention”. The two want to relieve the intensive care units of the surroundings and the families of around-the-clock care recipients.
Actually, only with this article should it become public that Steigerwald and Nürnberger accept inquiries, but already during the conversation a hospital calls whether a place would be available immediately. The planned flat share is still a single construction site. It is not their first request. The need is enormous? And it was already before the fight against Corona tied up the ventilation capacities of hospitals.
The goal: to return to life
Steigerwald and Nürnberger forged the first plans for an intensive care flat share as early as 2018. A year later they concretized these; In February 2020 they founded the GmbH. The first will act as a managing director in the foreground, the other as a partner more in the background. In Würzburg and Aschaffenburg there is already a shared apartment, say the two. Steigerwald was a care manager for a long time and has already set up an intensive care flat share. Nürnberger sells medical technology products. “Our departments complement each other well,” says Steigerwald. In Main-Spessart there was no such flat share, so they got together.
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“Our primary goal is: We want to care for people in such a way that at some point they no longer have to be permanently monitored and can return to life.” As a retirement home, the two do not want their concept to be understood. The word “Wohngemeinschaft” should be taken literally. Each resident should be able to live as independently as possible. Everyone has their own room that they can furnish as they wish. There is a kitchen, a living room for watching TV and one where residents can meet up with friends or relatives without being disturbed. The common rooms are kept open and barrier-free. “We want to offer a home environment,” says Nürnberger.
High quota of skilled workers
Combining this with the permanently necessary monitoring is not that easy. There will be at least three trained specialists around them. “The same rate as in an intensive care unit,” says Steigerwald. The necessary machines are looked after by resident doctors. “This gives the nurses a lot of individual time with the patient,” says Steigerwald. You can accompany the residents, who are otherwise in sick beds, to the city center, to the Main or to go shopping. They are joint steps towards independence.
The flat share isn’t finished yet. And she would not have been there any longer if the member of the state parliament Thorsten Schwab had not stood up for her, says Nürnberger. Because the Corona crisis has the authorities so under control, it took a long time to get the permits. But now light is slowly coming into the project, both figuratively and literally. The lighting in the rooms is finally working. In addition, the lighted ceiling has just been delivered. It should create flair in the living room, says Steigerwald. The flatmates should feel at home? from March 2021.
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