when the dp camp became operational, a 150-bed hospital was established in the former officers' quarters of reinsehlen airfield. due to malnutrition and the prevalence of infectious diseases among many of the arriving dps, medical care was a priority. in 1946, average daily occupancy was around 95 patients. as a result of the camp's overcrowding, typhoid fever, tbc and jaundice remained problems in the camp. through 1950, care in the hospital was mainly run by around 15 sisters of saint elizabeth, most of them expelled from silesia. after the camp was closed in november 1950, the hospital continued to operate under its own administration. eventually it became an outlet of the "kreiskrankenhaus soltau". when the latter moved to new premises in 1968, the reinsehlen facility was finally closed.