Health and care

A healthy diet is an essential prerequisite for a healthy life.

We want to strengthen education and information on healthy nutrition in daycare centers, schools and children's parent centers (KiEZe). The KiEZe offer low-threshold advice, information and meetings in Wiesbaden and can also be an important point of contact for questions in the field of nutrition and exercise.

Kitas and schools with their own kitchen should be able to offer fresh, regional and balanced meals according to DGE standards. We want to create the necessary infrastructure for this. Exercise is also part of health: We are committed to safe cycling and school paths, more free play and sports venues as well as free swimming pool access for children and teenagers during the holidays.

There is a tendency for the concentration of GP practices in the city centre, which is why we advocate for GPs wherever possible in all districts. Good accessibility and short distances are important, especially for the chronically ill and the elderly.

We are committed to providing local, accessible and needs-based care for children and adolescents, both outpatient and inpatient. The Children's Hospital of the HSK must ensure reliable care. We want the ‘round table’ on the HSK Children’s Hospital to be resumed and continued.

Currently, there is a lack of therapy places when there is a high demand and long waiting times result. We are committed to providing needs-based care for all age groups, especially children and young people. For people with mental illnesses, we want to expand support services, improve crisis relief and strengthen participation. Through education and cooperation with self-help groups, mental illnesses are to be de-stigmatized.

We want to ensure and expand the range of inpatient care in Wiesbaden. Through a good network of outpatient services, we want to strengthen self-determined and residential care in the districts, for example through care groups and residential communities. We support culturally sensitive care and want to expand specific offers for different population groups.

We want to continue the municipal elderly care planning and develop concepts for different forms of care. We want to expand the possibilities of home care and relieve caring relatives, for example through additional day care places.

Within the framework of the municipal possibilities, we are committed to a sufficient supply of nursing schools and training places in Wiesbaden. We want to increase the attractiveness of the nursing professions – for example through job tickets, improved accommodation options such as subsidised trainee housing and flexible childcare services.

The municipal heat action plan must be consistently developed and implemented. We want to have sufficient drinking water wells in public spaces provided by the city and expand the ‘map of cool places’ by making even more public and church buildings accessible. When building in public spaces, the health effects of heat should be taken into account. Information and comprehensible information shall be provided, in particular, to disadvantaged and vulnerable groups.

We want to reduce aircraft noise: For the AKK suburbs, active coordination with the country is needed in order to improve Frankfurt Airport's flight route plans. In addition, we want to develop a concept for reducing light pollution and continuously improve the air quality in Wiesbaden.

The spread of the Asian tiger mosquito, which can transmit serious diseases, must continue to be resolutely combated in close cooperation with the health authority.

In order to close supply gaps and ensure a supply close to home, we rely on networks and coordination points in the district. We want to actively support the networking of local health actors.

That is why we are committed to better framework conditions for ‘lighthouse projects’, such as curandum e.V., municipal health bases such as health kiosks or community care workers (funded by the country). A health kiosk will start operating in the Westcenter in early 2026 and will provide a low-threshold point of contact for health advice. Should the first health kiosk be well received and bring the hoped-for added value, including a relief for the resident doctors in the district, we will work for further health kiosks in other districts with insufficient medical care.

Healthcare is facing major challenges: Demographic change and skills shortages require close collaboration between all stakeholders in health and care professions across disciplines and sectors. The EGW – Gesellschaft für ein Gesundheits Wiesbaden mbH – is to act here as a central coordinating body, in close coordination with the Health Office.

We want to permanently secure the health coordination post, which has been set up and newly filled since 2025, supported by state funds as part of the ‘Municipal Health Strategy’.

We want to further develop the health compass – as a digital platform with health information, events, doctor searches and comprehensible health knowledge for all people in Wiesbaden.

As a member of the Healthy Cities Network, we want the city to promote the implementation of the 9-point program and the development of a health policy model for Wiesbaden.

A future-proof public health service is a prerequisite for municipal services of general interest, so we want to ensure staffing even after the expiry of the ‘Pact for the Public Health Service (ÖGD)/2020’. We will work to strengthen early help for families and to continue and expand the FrAnKHA project (early guidance by midwives, pediatric nurses and doctors). Midwives do an indispensable and responsible job around pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. We want to strengthen the activity and networking of midwives in Wiesbaden, enhance the possibility of delivery in midwife-guided delivery rooms and support initiatives for the establishment of a birth house in Wiesbaden.

We want to ensure that every school has a school health professional who takes care of the health care of the students and health promotion and prevention. We support the maintenance and development of the self-help contact point and the ‘addiction guide’. We are committed to setting up a ‘contraceptive fund’ for low-income people.

As a hospital of maximum care, Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken (HSK) is of central importance for the health care of the population in Wiesbaden and the region. We want the city to increasingly assume its responsibility and influence over the HSK.

We are committed to good working conditions in the HSK, so that the HSK becomes more attractive as a major employer of the city, for example by offering employee housing for all occupational groups in the health sector. We do not tolerate the postponement of non-nursing activities to nursing.

We reject the sale of HSK's municipal shares and also want to prevent the privatisation of special clinics within HSK.

We want to expand the care of post-COVID patients – through professional diagnostics as well as counselling and treatment services in a specialised post-COVID outpatient clinic. Such offers can only be provided in specialized centers or practices. There is currently no sufficient supply in Wiesbaden, which leads to long waiting times.

We want to strengthen low-threshold humanitarian and medical assistance for addicted people and promote self-help structures. This includes the construction of drug consumption rooms with integrated psychosocial counselling, the expansion of sleeping facilities and day-structuring services as well as the Mobile Medical Service.

We want to evaluate and expand the ongoing Drug-Checking project so that drugs can be analyzed free of charge and without penalty. This makes it possible to identify harmful substances and determine the active substance content, which can prevent drug-related deaths, especially when taking high-dose synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. We are also striving to ensure that Wiesbaden’s ongoing application is followed up as part of the ‘Cannabis Modellregion’.

We also strengthen tobacco and nicotine prevention by dismantling cigarette vending machines on land owned by the city or by holdings.

We want to strengthen outpatient and inpatient palliative care: We support the work of palliative care and hospice services and want them to be further expanded. The City of Wiesbaden, as draftswoman of the ‘Charter for the Care of Severely Sick and Dying People’, should adhere to these goals and implement them.

At the request of us GRÜNEN and our cooperation partners, the City Council decided in 2023 to build up to three health kiosks. They should provide a low-threshold point of contact for health advice. After the abolition of the federal funds, the planned municipal budget was used for the construction of a health kiosk in the Westcenter. Easily accessible by public transport and close to residential quarters in Dotzheim/Kohlheck and Klarenthal with insufficient medical care, the health kiosk in the Westcenter will start its work from the beginning of 2026. There, specialists advise on health topics free of charge, provide quick help and guide through the health system. In addition, there are prevention offers, information events and rooms for self-help groups.

The Master Plan Health Economics highlights the importance of the health economics for the Wiesbaden location: Wiesbaden – with a long tradition as a spa town – employs around 38,000 people in the healthcare sector. On the one hand, the master plan ensures that the healthcare industry in Wiesbaden is positioned for the future. On the other hand, it enables good medical and nursing care to be guaranteed in the long term. The plan brings together all the forces of the city, health care providers, research and business to network health locations, promote new facilities and strengthen care in all districts. This will ensure that Wiesbaden remains a city where all people – young or old, with or without pre-existing conditions – can get the help they need quickly and easily.

The networking of stakeholders in the health sector is essential for a comprehensive and sustainable health policy in Wiesbaden. We have therefore promoted the expansion of the EGW (Society for a Healthy Wiesbaden) as a central networking actor in the healthcare sector and created a new position as a health coordinator for Wiesbaden. Health policy is a whole-of-society issue that is visible, better networked and promoted by the EGW in the city through a variety of projects.

We have been committed to the creation and implementation of a heat action plan in Wiesbaden. Wiesbaden will have to adjust even better to ongoing heat periods in the coming years: Shady places, access to drinking water in public spaces in urban areas and other health-specific factors must be consistently considered as cross-cutting topics. With the creation and introduction of the heat action plan, we have created the first important guidelines in urban policy, which are continuously being expanded in order to protect us from the threat of climate change in Wiesbaden in the best possible way. Climate protection is health protection.

We had a pilot project "Drug Checking" carried out in Wiesbaden so that consumers can better assess their consumption risk and thus be better protected against contaminated drugs. At selected Wiesbaden party events, experts examine drugs such as cannabis for contaminants and at the same time strengthen information and prevention offers. The city is implementing the project together with the addiction support centre, the Caritas ambulance and the Frankfurter Verein Basis. The pilot project should also include testing other substances in later phases in order to be able to protect consumers in the best possible way.

We have also been involved in Wiesbaden applying for a conscious and controlled sale of cannabis in pharmacies as part of the model project. This procedure is still ongoing. However, a responsible drug policy also means actively creating prevention and support services in order to protect consumers in the best possible way.