Vitos

Vitos is a non-profit healthcare group (gemeinnütziger Unternehmensverbund) based in Kassel, Hesse, Germany, and is the largest provider for the treatment of mentally ill people in the state of Hesse. It is wholly owned by the Landeswohlfahrtsverband (LWV) Hessen, a public-law corporation. The group operates psychiatric, psychosomatic and forensic-psychiatric clinics, facilities for psychiatric rehabilitation, and accompanying psychiatric services for chronically mentally ill people. Beyond its core mission of diagnosing and treating mental illness, Vitos also runs an orthopaedic specialist clinic in Kassel and, throughout Hesse, facilities for youth welfare and disability assistance. The Vitos group comprises 17 non-profit companies (gemeinnützige Gesellschaften) with headquarters in Kassel. According to the company's own information, around 12,200 employees work at 115 locations, generating an annual total income of about one billion euros. They treat approximately 44,000 inpatients and day patients and provide around 300,000 outpatient treatments per year. Wikipedia reports a somewhat different set of figures: about 6,200 beds and places, an annual revenue volume of roughly 950 million euros, about 11,000 employees treating around 43,000 inpatients/part-time patients and 173,000 outpatients annually, and a presence at approximately 60 locations in Hesse. Vitos is a service provider within the framework of integration assistance (Eingliederungshilfe) in Hesse. The name "Vitos" is an artificial word combining the Latin "vita" and the Greek "bios", both meaning "life". The group was founded on 1 January 2008 by LWV Hessen as LWV-Gesundheitsmanagement GmbH, and has operated under the Vitos name since March 2009. The brand is used as a common prefix for the names of the group's subsidiaries and their facilities, giving the network a unified identity across Hesse. Vitos's service portfolio is organised into specialist areas: adult psychiatry, psychosomatics, child and adolescent psychiatry, orthopaedics, accompanying psychiatric services, disability assistance, youth welfare, forensic psychiatry and psychiatric rehabilitation. Its subsidiaries include Vitos Gießen-Marburg, Vitos Herborn, Vitos Haina, Vitos Hochtaunus, Vitos Rheingau, Vitos Weil-Lahn, Vitos Teilhabe, Vitos Nordhessen, Vitos Orthopädische Klinik Kassel, Vitos Reha, Vitos Rhein-Main, Vitos Südhessen, Vitos Service, Vitos Holding, Vitos Pflegezentrum Weilmünster, Vitos MVZ Kassel GmbH, Vitos MVZ gGmbH and the Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft für digitale Gesundheit GDG mbH. As a non-profit group owned by a public-law body, Vitos is not listed on any stock exchange. Its activities are concentrated in Hesse, where it maintains a dense network of clinics, outpatient services, rehabilitation facilities and social-participation services. The group continues to expand community-based care, for example with a new location in Frankenberg (Waldeck-Frankenberg district) planned to open in 2028 with a psychiatric outpatient clinic and a psychosomatic day clinic.

Vitos traces its corporate origins to 1 January 2008, when the Landeswohlfahrtsverband (LWV) Hessen founded LWV-Gesundheitsmanagement GmbH as a holding company. In the same year the group reorganised itself, and since March 2009 it has operated under the name Vitos GmbH. Since then, the subsidiaries and their facilities have also carried the common name Vitos as part of their names. The name "Vitos" is an artificial word formed from the Latin "vita" and the Greek "bios", both meaning "life". The common name is placed before all facility names. The group's facilities have much older roots. Psychiatric clinics have existed on the Vitos sites in Marburg since 1876 and in Gießen since 1911. The Kloster Haina, now part of Vitos Haina, has a long history, and the Philippshospital Riedstadt is likewise a historic psychiatric institution. The Vitos blog has featured historical articles such as "Vom Kloster zum Zwangslager" (From monastery to forced camp), reflecting the group's engagement with the history of its sites. In the years after the rebranding, Vitos restructured its subsidiary landscape. On 1 January 2016, the Heilpädagogische Einrichtungen (therapeutic-pedagogical facilities) previously run by Vitos Haina, Herborn, Kurhessen, Riedstadt and Weilmünster were bundled into Vitos Kalmenhof gGmbH. Under the new name Vitos Teilhabe, the organisation now supports more than 600 people with intellectual and multiple disabilities across Hesse in inpatient, day-patient and outpatient services. Vitos Kalmenhof forms a regional association with Vitos Hochtaunus gGmbH and Vitos Rheingau gGmbH under a shared management, employing around 1,300 people. On 1 September 2016, Vitos Weilmünster and Vitos Hadamar merged into a single company. Until then they had been independent, although they had already shared central management and an integrated administration with Vitos Herborn for some time. The merged company was renamed Vitos Weil-Lahn gemeinnützige GmbH. The clinics and facilities at the locations kept their established names, and the site structure of both companies remained unchanged after the legal merger. The consolidation was a step to secure stable hospital care in the Limburg-Weilburg district against the background of restructuring within the Vitos group, and it simplified administrative, management and communication structures. Vitos Gießen-Marburg gGmbH includes the Vitos Klinikum Gießen-Marburg (with adult psychiatry clinics in Gießen and Marburg, a child and adolescent psychiatry clinic in Marburg and the psychosomatics clinic in Gießen), the Vitos accompanying psychiatric services Marburg, the transitional facility in Gießen for the care and support of drug addicts after withdrawal, and the Vitos Schule für Gesundheitsberufe Oberhessen, which trains nursing staff. The non-profit company employs around 1,000 people. The clinics and facilities have carried the Vitos name since 2009. By the 2020s, Vitos had grown into a large group with 17 non-profit companies. According to its own figures, around 12,200 employees work at 115 locations and generate an annual total income of about one billion euros, treating approximately 44,000 inpatients/day patients and providing around 300,000 outpatient treatments per year. Wikipedia reports about 6,200 beds and places, annual revenue of roughly 950 million euros, about 11,000 employees, around 43,000 inpatient/part-time patients and 173,000 outpatients per year, and a presence at approximately 60 locations in Hesse. The treatment spectrum is divided into 3,357 inpatient and day-patient beds/places for mentally ill people, 325 beds in somatic specialist clinics, and 2,044 further places in accompanying psychiatric services (768), therapeutic-pedagogical facilities for people with intellectual disabilities (497) and social-pedagogical services for young people (779). In the 2020s Vitos continued to expand community-based care. In the Waldeck-Frankenberg district, the Vitos Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Haina is building a new location on Frankenberger Gartenstraße, which from 2028 will house both a psychiatric outpatient clinic and a psychosomatic day clinic. The group also operates Vitos Service GmbH (cleaning, catering and logistics), Vitos digitale Gesundheit GmbH and the Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft für digitale Gesundheit GDG mbH, reflecting a growing focus on digital health and service provision.

• LWV Hessen founds LWV-Gesundheitsmanagement GmbH as the holding company of the group.

• The group and its subsidiaries adopt the common name Vitos.

• Therapeutic-pedagogical facilities from several Vitos companies are bundled into Vitos Kalmenhof gGmbH, later operating as Vitos Teilhabe.

• Vitos Weilmünster and Vitos Hadamar merge into Vitos Weil-Lahn gemeinnützige GmbH.

• Planned opening of a new Vitos location in Frankenberg with a psychiatric outpatient clinic and a psychosomatic day clinic.

Hesse's largest non-profit provider for the treatment of mentally ill people, offering a broad spectrum of psychiatric, psychosomatic, orthopaedic and social-participation services under a unified brand.

• Vitos Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Gießen

• Vitos Klinik für Psychosomatik Gießen

• Vitos Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Marburg

• Vitos Kinder- und Jugendklinik für psychische Gesundheit Marburg

• Vitos Orthopädische Klinik Kassel

• Vitos Teilhabe (Kalmenhof)

• Vitos Weil-Lahn

• Vitos Haina

• Vitos Service GmbH

• Vitos digitale Gesundheit GmbH

1. 1Vitos - Ihr Dienstleister für Gesundheit und Sozialesvitos.de
2. 2Über uns: Der Vitos Unternehmensverbund stellt sich vorvitos.de
3. 3Pressevitos.de
4. 4Kontaktvitos.de
5. 5Vitos GmbH – Wikipediade.wikipedia.org
6. 6Vitos GmbH – Wikidatawikidata.org