What we do
We combine modern diagnostics with biological and complementary medicine in one plan, and we put you, not the diagnosis, at the centre of every decision about it.
About St. George Hospital
The Hospital
Founded in 1991 in Bad Aibling, Bavaria, St. George Hospital is a 70-bed hospital for integrative medicine, combining conventional medical science with evidence-based complementary therapies.
- 35+ Years Experience
- International Patients Welcome
- Published Research
- Integrative Approach
Where this began
The same building since 1991
Friedrich Douwes M.D. (1945–2022) opened this hospital in 1991 on Rosenheimer Straße in Bad Aibling. He wanted conventional medicine and the complementary therapies he had seen work to be practised in one building, by one team, with one chart. That is still the arrangement you walk into today.
It started small, with oncology and biological medicine. It is now a 70-bed hospital with its own laboratory and its own hyperthermia department, and since 1991 people from more than 60 countries have come here, most of them with a chronic condition that had not responded to standard care and a folder of findings to prove it.
Today Julian Douwes M.D. leads the hospital as Chief Medical Officer and writes its treatment protocols; his work spans functional medicine, chronic disease, rare diseases, longevity and neuromodulation. Martin Rößner M.D., Chief Physician, leads oncology and the clinical day. The founding idea has not changed: a complex chronic disease is not treated with one tool, and you are not treated by one department.
What we are here for
Medicine that looks at all of you
Managing a symptom is not the same as understanding why it is there. We measure first, then treat what the measurements show, and we say plainly how strong the evidence is for each therapy we propose.
What we want to be
A hospital you can check: named physicians, published work, and outcomes we record for every patient and report honestly.
How we behave
We take your history seriously, we tell you what we do not know, and we treat you as a person with a story, not a diagnosis with a room number.
1991Founded in Bad Aibling
70Beds, one site
30,000+Whole-body hyperthermia sessions
60+Countries our patients come from
What you will see
Three rooms you will get to know
A hospital is a building before it is a philosophy. These are the parts of ours you will spend the most time in.
The hyperthermia department
Whole-body, local-regional and prostate hyperthermia under one roof, and more than 30,000 whole-body sessions behind the team that will sit at your bed during yours.
The laboratory
Your blood is drawn on the morning you arrive and analysed in this building: immune profile, infection markers, microbiome, specialised Lyme testing. Results go to your physician, not to a courier.
Your room
A private room, nursing around the clock, gardens and walking paths outside, and the quiet of a small Bavarian town after dark.
Where you are going
Bad Aibling, an hour from the airport
From Munich you drive south-east on the A8 with the Alps filling the windscreen, leave the motorway at Bad Aibling and arrive in a spa town with church towers, thermal springs and a slow river. It is about 50 kilometres from the city and a little under an hour from Munich Airport; if you fly in from the US overnight, you can be in your room the same afternoon.
It is quiet here. That is not a therapy, but it makes the therapy easier to bear.
- 50 km from Munich city center
- 60 minutes from Munich International Airport
- Direct rail connections from Munich
- Airport transfer service available
Keep reading
More about the hospital
Four pages that answer the questions people ask before they get in touch.
Who will treat you
The physicians by name, what each of them does, and who leads your case.
Meet the physicians →How we work
Measure first, then combine, then stay: the principles behind every plan.
How we work →What we have published
Papers by the founder and the team, so you can read the work rather than take our word for it.
Publications by our physicians →Coming from abroad
Video consultation first, then a coordinator, then the flight. What each step involves.
Coming from abroad: what to expect →Request a consultation
A video consultation in English before you travel. A physician reviews your findings first; we reply by email within one business day (Mon–Fri).
Mon–Thu 08:00–17:00, Fri 08:00–14:00 (CET/CEST)+49 8061 398-0info@clinicum-stgeorg.de
St. George Hospital is a specialist hospital, not an emergency department. In a medical emergency in Germany, dial 112.