The economic situation of the Erding Clinic developed negatively in the first eight months of this year.
This was reported by Director Dr.
Dirk Last on the hospital committee.
He attributed this to the Covid-19 lockdown, in which beds had to be kept free and all planned operations had to be canceled.
Erding - “The months before the pandemic went very well.
The numbers have been recovering since August, but have not yet returned to the previous year's level, ”said Last.
9,048 inpatients were admitted between January and August, 18.9 percent fewer than in the previous year.
However, the economic severity of these patients has increased slightly.
Last called for a quick return to the path of the economic plan.
“From October we will no longer receive a bed-free flat rate from the federal government.” According to Last, there are now a number of planned larger operations again, which has a positive effect on the result.
In this context, District Administrator Martin Bayerstorfer presented the - not yet audited - annual results for 2019.
Although the balance sheet closes with a deficit of 2.4 million euros.
“We predicted this amount,” said Bayerstorfer.
From a purely operational point of view, the minus would even have been significantly lower, but there were special effects.
Here he named the Erding allowance for employees (325,000 euros), the MDK reform law, which obliges Erding to reserve more than 700,000 euros, unscheduled renovations and repairs (300,000 e), the depreciation of the MVZ (250,000 e) and the retroactive contribution obligation under the Renewable Energy Sources Act for the block-type thermal power station (19,000 e).
Nicole Schley (SPD) asked why four-bed rooms were fully occupied in times of pandemics.
Last replied that this was not a problem “because we test all patients for Corona and isolate them for so long.
In addition, the committee decided to dissolve the hospital board of trustees and convert it into an association of friends and sponsors.
Last said that it is common practice today to support a clinic.
The Board of Trustees itself was also in favor.
The clinic will soon have its own new magnetic resonance tomograph.
Construction work for the installation in the Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Department is now starting.
For the interim phase, a replacement MRT has now been delivered, which was put in place by a road crane.
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