Medical Strategy 2020 Hospitals shut down

Hospitals and birth bridges are closed

19/10/2014

The number of hospitals in Germany has fallen sharply in recent years. An end to the decline does not seem to be in sight yet. Details of the Hospital Hannover Region (KRH) have now been provided „Medical Strategy 2020“ presented. Accordingly, three hospitals and two maternity hospitals are to be closed.

Good care should be maintained
The management of the Klinikum Region Hannover (KRH) has details of the „Medical Strategy 2020“ presented. As the „image“ reports, Regional President Jagau (SPD) said: „The goal is to keep the KRH in communal sponsorship and to receive a good supply.“ According to the report, the clinics in Burgwedel and Lehrte will be closed in seven to ten years. They are to be replaced by a new building in the east of the region. The location for the facility (400-500 beds, about 150 million euros) was still unclear.

Personnel reduction without operational layoffs
Prerequisite for this is funding from the country. KRH board member Professor Thomas Moesta explained: „The houses are economical. But we want to get better.“ According to Jagau, the hospital is in Springe „not economically viable“. It is supposed to become one in 2015 „clinic“ to be restructured with an outpatient emergency room. The inpatient area is to be integrated into the Klinikum Gehrden. As it is further said, staff should be dismissed without redundancies.

Less closures than expected
Furthermore, the birth pawls in Burgwedel and Nordstadt are relocated to the Siloah hospital because of too few births. In addition, emergency shots „optimized“, geriatric medicine (eg geriatrics, rehabilitation) expanded and targeted in „powerful areas“ be invested. However, the Supervisory Board and Regional Assembly still have to agree. Although closures are reported again and again, fewer hospitals have been closed in Germany than previously thought. This emerges from a study published in August on behalf of the Central Association of Statutory Health Insurance (GKV). Accordingly, many of the houses have not quite given up, but have been taken over, for example, by other carriers or merged with other clinics. (Ad)