KIM video presentation

Founding impulse, goals and working methods

The Baden-Württemberg Integrative Medicine Competence Network is an association of clinics, medical care networks, and research institutes. Since our founding on November 30, 2017, we have been developing, implementing, and evaluating integrative treatment concepts. Our vision is: a steadily growing network that represents the effectiveness, quality, and safety of integrative medicine.



"Integrative medicine" refers the combination of conventional and complementary treatment options within a patient-centered care model. Alongside guideline-based, professional medical care,we offer treatment and counseling services from the fields of naturopathy and complementary medicine. These include natural remedies, and traditional treatment methods such as acupuncture, nursing applications such as compresses and rubs, aromatherapy, and mind-body therapies, such as art and music therapy, MBSR/meditation, eurythmy therapy, yoga, Tai Chi. Furthermore, we provide targeted advice and support for implementing health-promoting lifestyle changes in everyday life.
The KIM aims to network clinical centers and projects with outpatient integrative medicine services to create high-quality treatment options, develop and evaluate treatment modules and pathways for diseases and symptoms that incorporate the patient perspective, create networked training and continuing education opportunities, develop quality criteria and a quality label for integrative medicine to serve as the basis for future certification, and develop models for implementing integrative medicine in everyday clinical practice.

Greeting from patron Manne Lucha

– Minister for Social Affairs, Health and Integration of Baden-Württemberg –
Ladies and gentlemen, many patients in Baden-Württemberg desire a diverse range of therapies and complementary medicine services. We are therefore committed to ensuring barrier-free access to quality-assured integrative medicine for everyone. As patron of the Baden-Württemberg Integrative Medicine Competence Network, I am delighted that hospitals and outpatient networks are jointly addressing this important task. The goal is to develop and implement effective and safe treatment concepts. Practice and research are working closely together in this endeavor. I wish the participating physicians, nursing experts, and all other contributors every success!

Participating hospiitals & stakeholders

with treatment options in the field of oncology


DIAKO Mannheim Speyerer Str. 91-93 68163 Mannheim phone 49 (0621) 18 19 49 0 www.diako-mannheim.de www.mannheimer-onkologie-praxis.de
Special treatment offers & experts

Diakoneo Diak Klinikum Diakoniestraße 10 74523 Schwäbisch Hall phone 49 (0)791-753-5185 https://www.diak-klinikum.de/
Special treatment offers & experts

Filderklinik, Im Haberschlai 7, 70794 Filderstadt, phone 49 (0)711-7703-0, www.filderklinik.de
Special treatment offers & experts

Hufeland Clinic for Holistic Immunobiological Therapy GmbH & Co.KG Löffelstelzer Str. 1-3 D-97980 Bad Mergentheim phone 49 – (0)7931 536-0 www.hufeland.com
Special treatment offers & experts

Integrative Health Center, August-Lösch-Str. 26, 89522 Heidenheim, phone 49 (0)7321-5585560, www.hausdergesundheit-heidenheim.de
Special treatment offers & experts

Esslingen Hospital, Hirschlandstr. 97, 73730 Esslingen, phone 49 (0)711-3103-0, www.klinikum-esslingen.de
Special treatment offers & experts

Heidenheim Hospital

Schloßhausstr. 100

89522 Heidenheim an der Brenz

phone 49 (0)7321-33-0

www.kliniken-heidenheim.de



Special treatment offers & experts

Öschelbronn Clinic, Am Eichhof 30, 75223 Niefern-Öschelbronn, phone 49 (0)7233-68-0, www.klinik-oeschelbronn.de
Special treatment offers & experts

Stuttgart Hospital

Stuttgart Cancer Center

Eva Mayr-Stihl Tumor Center

Kriegsbergstr. 60

70174 Stuttgart

phone 49(0)711-27830404

www.klinikum-stuttgart.de

Special treatment offers & experts

Vinzenz von Paul Kliniken gGmbH Böheimstraße 37 70199 Stuttgart phone 49(0)711 6489-0 www.vinzenz.de
Special treatment offers & experts

Paracelsus Hospital, Burghaldenweg 60, 75378 Bad Liebenzell, phone 49 (0)7052-925-0, www.paracelsus-krankenhaus.de
Special treatment offers & experts

Specialist Clinic for Anthroposophy and Psychosomatic Rehabilitation Clinic, Staltenweg 25, 79585 Steinen-Endenburg, phone 49(0)7629 9109-66, www.stalten.de
Special treatment offers & experts

Robert Bosch Hospital, Auerbachstr. 110, 70376 Stuttgart, phone 49 (0)711-8101-0, www.rbk.de
Special treatment offers & experts

RKH Gesundheit Kliniken Ludwigsburg-Bietigheim gGmbH, Riedstraße 12, 74321 Bietigheim-Bissingen, phone 49(0)7142-79-0, www.rkh-kliniken.de
Special treatment offers & experts

Rems Murr Clinics, Am Jakobsweg 1, 71364 Winnenden, phone 49 (0)7195-591-0, www.rems-murr-kliniken.de
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Karlsruhe Municipal Hospital, Moltkestr. 90, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany, phone 49 (0)721-9740, www.klinikum-karlsruhe.de
Special treatment offers & experts

Tropical Clinic/Paul Lechler Hospital Tübingen, Paul-Lechler-Str. 26, 72076 Tübingen, phone 49 (0)7071-206-0, www.tropenklinik.de
Special treatment offers & experts

University Hospital Freiburg, Hugstetterstr. 55, Haus Frerichs, 79106 Freiburg, Germany, phone 49 761 270-82010, www.uni-zentrum-naturheilkunde.de
Special treatment offers & experts

University Hospital Mannheim, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, 68167 Mannheim, phone 49 (0)621-383-0, www.umm.de
Special treatment offers & experts

University Hospital Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, 89081 Ulm, Germany, phone 49 (0)731-500-0, www.uniklinik-ulm.de
Special treatment offers & experts

ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine non-profit GmbH

Im Haberschlai 7

70794 Filderstadt-Bonlanden

phone 49 (0)711-7703-188

www.arcim-institute.de

Special treatment offers & experts

Projects & working groups at KIM

We review and evaluate treatment methods from various naturopathic and complementary medical traditions

that have been used for many years in everyday clinical oncology practice.

In line with evidence-based medicine,  we conduct a through evaluation of

experienced treatment teams' knowledge and skills, supplemented by data from scientific studies on safety and efficacy.

 Our multidisciplinary team, coprised of physicians, nurses, and therapists from participating clinics, develops integrative treatment recommendations for the most common and serious cancer symptoms, as well as side effects of cancer treatments. These recommendations utilize effective and safe therapies that can easily be implemented in everyday clinical practice. Our treatment concepts focus on practical, proven  methods that oncologists, nurses, and therapists can learn and practice, even without prior training in complementary medicine. Currently, we are working on treatment recommendations for the complementary and integrative management of chemotherapy-induced polyneuropathy, as well as diarrhea and constipation in oncology patients.  



In a multi-professional working group with experts from the participating clinics and the network of outpatient physicians, nurses, and therapists in Heidenheim, we developed exemplary treatment recommendations for bronchitis and urinary tract infections. The working group is currently inactive.

In an interprofessional working group with experts from the network of outpatient physicians, nurses, therapists, and patients in Heidenheim, we developed exemplary treatment recommendations for respiratory and urinary tract infections. The working group is currently inactive.

Spokesperson of the KIM

Dr. med. Marcela Winkler

Head Physician for Naturopathy and Integrative Medicine, Robert Bosch Hospital Stuttgart
phone: 49 (0)711-8101-6258 
Marcela.Winkler@rbk.de
https://www.rbk.de/behandlung/abteilungen/naturheilkunde-und-integrative-medizin

Dr. med. Thomas Breitkreuz

Senior Physician, Specialist in Internal Medicine, with a focus on Oncology, Gastroenterology and Cardiovascular Diseases, Anthroposophic Medicine (GAÄD), Palliative Medicine, Paracelsus Hospital Unterlengenhardt
phone: 49 (0)731-500-53565
tb@paracelsus-krankenhaus.de
www.paracelsus-krankenhaus.de

KIM Coordination Committee

Dr. med. Thomas Breitkreuz, Medical Director, Paracelsus Hospital Unterlengenhardt, Specialist in Internal Medicine, Palliative Medicine, Anthroposophic Medicine (GAÄD), Phone: 49 (0)731 500-53565, tb@paracelsus-krankenhaus.de

Dr. med. Marcela Winkler, Senior Physician for Naturopathy and Integrative Medicine, Robert Bosch Hospital Stuttgart, phone: 49 (0)711 8101-6258, Marcela.Winkler@rbk.de

Elke Kaschdailewitsch, Oncology Specialist Nurse, Anthroposophic Nurse (IFAN), phone: 49 (0)7 11 - 77 03-7042, e.kaschdailewitsch@filderklinik.de

Rolf Heine, Registered Nurse, Head of the Academy for Nursing Professions at the Filderklinik, phone: 49 (0)711 7359219, rolf.heine@posteo.de

Prof. Dr. Klaus Kramer, Department of Integrative Medicine, Clinic for General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Ulm, phone 49 (0) 731-500-53588, klaus.kramer@uniklinik-ulm.de

Scientific project management

within the framework of the project »KIG BaWü Research and Practice Initiative: Complementary and Integrative Health Care for Baden-Württemberg«

From 2020 to 2022, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, and Integration supported KIM's work on developing exemplary complementary medicine treatment recommendations in cooperation with the Academic Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine (AZKIM) as part of the "Gesundheitsstandort Baden-Württemberg, Germany".

Prof. Dr. med. Klaus Kramer (M.Sc.)

University Hospital Ulm, Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Division of Integrative Medicine
phone: 49 (0)731 500-53588 
klaus.kramer@uniklinik-ulm.de
https://www.uniklinik-ulm.de/allgemein-und-viszeralchirurgie/forschung-studien/fachbereich-integrative-medizine.html
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