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The Prof. Jan Mazurkiewicz Mazovian Specialised Health Centre

The hospital's gate

Palace by Utrata River

The Prof. Jan Mazurkiewicz Mazovian Specialised Health Centre is a psychiatric hospital located in Pruszków, Tworki district,

5 kilometres outside Warsaw. It was founded in 1891, when this part of Poland was under the jurisdiction of the Russian Partition. The originator of this project was Adolf Mikołaj Rothe – a polish psychiatrist. It is situated in a park-forrest area of 58 hectares and surrounded by a wall. The hospital remains an active medical facility today.

History

The idea to build a psychiatric hospital appeared in Warsaw’s medical community around 1836. The most important organizer of this project was the famous Polish psychiatrist Adolf Mikołaj Rothe. The project of creating a psychiatric hospital was suspended because of the January Uprising in Poland and after its initial failure it was undertaken by the authorities of the Russian Partition. The wherewithal to build the hospital came from a special fund donated by the Partition’s government and the money that was collected by Polish society before the Uprising. In 1882 the project’s council bought a 58 ha farm as a site where the hospital was supposed to be built. From 1888 to 1891 the first buildings (patient’s pavilion, administration building) were finished and the area was, as the first hospital in Poland, supplied with electricity. The official opening took place on November 21st, 1891 under the name of ”Warsaw’s Clinic for the Insane”. The hospital was in disposition of 420 beds for patients. The first director of the Clinic, present at the moment of the opening, was Władimir Nikołajewicz Charadin. The hospital’s staff was composed of seven doctors - four Polish and three Russian. In 1904 the first woman Wanda Wlekińska was hired as a psychiatrist. During the interwar period the hospital was intensively developed, and the number of beds rose to 1500.

During the Second World War, despite the difficulties, the Hospital was functioning and providing a wide range of services to its patients and people affected by the war. After the failure of the Warsaw Uprising it assisted the people who were expelled from Warsaw.

After the War the hospital changed it’s name to The Public Hospital for Neurotics and Mentally Ill. The number of beds has dropped to 850. To overcome the difficulties of with food and energy shortages, the hospital started to run it’s own farm also the Tworki hospital became an important academic centre. In 1945 Warsaw Medical Academy opened the Psychiatric Clinic in Tworki hospital. Medical staff participated in academic work and published their own researches results. In1958 Jerzy Fiutowski founded the first detoxification ward. The Hospital also became specialized in the forensic psychiatry. By 1965 the number of beds had risen to 1850. In 1967 the hospital was named after Prof. Jan Mazurkiewicz (a famous Polish psychiatrist and a pioneer of psychophysiology). During the 1970s and 80s, the support of pharmacological treatment by the therapeutic methods has became more substantial. Since late 1980s the hospital had also been cooperating with psychiatric units outside of Poland (e.g. in Dortmund, Prague and Lviv).

Facilities, area and infrastructure


The hospital is situated in an area of 58 hectares, of which 23 are parkland. It is located 15 km from the centre of Warsaw, in the Tworki district of Pruszków, by the Utrata River. The whole area is surrounded by a wall, of which the west part runs along the WKD (Warsaw Commuter Railway) railway tracks.

Within the walls are wards, surgery buildings, technical facilities, shops, a diagnostic laboratory, a pharmacy, an administration building, a church and a kindergarten. Most of the buildings are under the protection of the Conservation Office.

General Psychiatric Ward III

Medical activity

The hospital is one of the most important centres of the Polish psychiatric health care, providing services for 1,5 million people. Every year, about 7000 patients are admitted and it gives 15000 outpatient advises. The hospital has 815 beds and employs 800 people, not only psychiatric specialists but also radiologists, and dentists, also a surgeon, an ophthalmologist, a laryngologist, a gynaecologist, an anaesthetist, a neurosurgeon, a dermatologist as consultants. Staff members are also psychologists, social workers, nurses, therapists, paramedics and cleaners. The hospital provides pharmacological treatment, psychotherapy and rehabilitation.

The hospital is consists of 20 wards:

• 2 Forensic Psychiatric units
• 8 General Psychiatric units
• Psychogeriatric unit
• Neurological unit
• Stroke unit
• Alcohol Detoxification unit
• Alcohol Addiction unit
• 3 Curative and Nursing Care units
• Neurotic Disorders unit
• Day Care Psychiatric unit

Modernisation

The hospital’s modernisation started in 2010. This project was divided into two separate programs. The first part was the restoration of the surgery building. The second stage was the adaptation of the old technical facilities to the Radiological Centre and General Psychiatric Ward. Both the undertakings were majorly co-financed by the European Union. The whole process was completed in 2016.