SHS Newsletter

SHS Gesellschaft für Beteiligungsmanagement has received capital commitments of over 220 million euros for its sixth fund at the first closing. Faster than expected, the Tübingen-based healthcare investor has already exceeded its target of 200 million euros at the first closing. The sixth SHS fund generation also aims at majority and minority investments in the […]

Every year, counterfeit medicines cause harm to many patients, particularly in developing countries. This problem is being tackled by a joint project of the Tübingen-based Difäm and the Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network (EPN) that aims to detect counterfeit medicines in developing countries with the help of local analytics. To this end, local centres are provided with […]

“Swimming for All Children” is organized on a voluntary basis and was established in April 2015 in cooperation with Runder Tisch Kinderarmut (Round Table on Child Poverty) and Bündnis für Familie (Alliance for the Family) in Tübingen. A survey conducted by the German Life Saving Association found that 59% of children are not confident swimmers […]

The Zollernalb-Tübingen Regional Group of Mukoviszidose e.V. is a self-help group consisting of 35 parents whose children suffer from cystic fibrosis. This incurable metabolic disease leads to a significant reduction in life expectancy. The cause of the disease is a gene mutation. Every 20th person in Germany carries the defective gene. Only if both parents […]

With a long tradition and as one of the largest hospitals in Germany, Olgahospital (“Olgäle”) focuses on treating sick children and young people. “Olgäle-Stiftung für das kranke Kind e. V.” (Olgäle foundation for sick children) was founded 20 years ago under the patronage of Carl, Duke of Württemberg. The foundation strives to ensure permanent aid […]

CERES supports people in vegetative states by helping improve their treatment and care situation. The association for people suffering from brain damage was established in Tübingen, Germany in 1986. The first building was purchased in 2010 to provide a comfortable living space for patients and give them the opportunity to choose their own professional care […]

The family house in Tübingen provides the families of children with cancer a special supervised residence. While their children are in the hospital, the house serves the families as a “home away from home”. The family house, not only cares for parents, but also the patients’ siblings. Having the family nearby supports children with cancer […]

Each year 60.000 children are born too early in Germany. The little patients are mostly treated in special intensive care units for kids. For parents and siblings this situation often causes stress and uncertainties. To manage these difficulties and questions an association named Frühchen e.V. Reutlingen was created as a parents-initiative in the middle of […]

A hospital stay is always an exceptional situation for children and young people. Thank goodness that the Tübingen Children’s Hospital has a playroom for every ward. There, the young patients can forget their worries while they play, sing and laugh. In some wards, they can even cook together. The focus is on common activities and […]

As early as 1998, the children’s nurse Christiane Miarka-Mauthe had the idea of opening a facility for ventilated infants and toddlers, who cannot be cared for at home. In addition to receiving the required critical care, she felt that the children should be able to grow up sur-rounded by love, affection and optimal encouragement as […]

The project “KraKiaN” currently offers each year for roughly 250 children and young people the opportunity to stay in touch with their family and friends using notebooks and internet connection during their inpatient stay in the Children’s Hospital at Tuebingen. This contact is very important to the young patients as it also allows them to follow their […]

Fruehchen e.V. Reutlingen is a registered charity with 116 current members. It has been providing various types of support to the intensive care unit of the clinic for children’s and youth medicine of Klinikum am Steinenberg in Reutlingen since December 1995. Its objectives include improvement of specialist training and personnel, financial and technical/diagnostic provisions, the […]