The Penzberg hospital had to convert a second complete ward to an isolation area on Tuesday.
The number of Covid-19 patients treated in the clinic has doubled within a day.
Infected people who need intensive care will continue to be transferred to other clinics.
Penzberg - Since the beginning of November, the Penzberg hospital had kept an entire ward as an isolation area, as was the case last spring.
Twelve rooms are available there, separated from the rest of the clinic.
It was like that until Monday.
Now the Penzberg hospital has had to convert a second complete ward into an isolation area.
Medical director Florian Brändle announced this on Tuesday when asked.
According to him - as of Tuesday morning - 15 Covid 19 patients and five suspected cases are being treated at the Penzberg hospital.
On Monday there were still seven Covid 19 patients and six suspected cases - the first isolation ward was already fully occupied.
Klinik Penzberg: No transfer to Lenggries yet
According to Brändle, no patients have currently been transferred from the Penzberg hospital to the new quarantine facility in Lenggries.
This quarantine facility at the specialist clinic for geriatric rehabilitation is to relieve the hospitals in the districts of Bad Tölz-Wolfrathsausen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Weilheim-Schongau from Tuesday.
It accepts Covid-19 patients who normally live in a nursing home and no longer need acute medical care after their inpatient treatment.
At the moment there are no older patients to whom this applies, according to Brändle, who no longer require any acute medical treatment.
But you check it every day.
Klinik Penzberg: Intensive care unit is kept free for other emergencies
There are no Covid 19 patients in the intensive care unit of the Penzberg Hospital.
Patients who require intensive medical treatment will continue to be transferred to other hospitals belonging to the Oberland association, which includes the districts of Weilheim-Schongau, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen and Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
In the past few weeks, two or three patients have had to be moved, according to Brändle.
The background to the agreement in the Zweckverband is that the small intensive care unit at the Penzberg hospital - it has four intensive care beds and three monitoring beds - cannot be subdivided from a hygienic point of view in such a way that both Covid-19 patients and other emergencies can be treated at the same time.
For a second intensive care unit, according to Brändle, you would not have the necessary staff.
The Penzberg intensive care unit will be kept free for other emergencies, according to the medical director.
For example, for serious internal medicine cases.
According to him, to ensure this, operations that can be planned and that patients may need to receive intensive care afterwards have not been carried out for a few weeks.
Hospital Penzberg is preparing for vaccinations
The situation is not easy for the employees in the 100-bed building either.
Brändle speaks of a "tense situation".
It is a significantly greater effort, both physically and mentally.
It is hardly possible to free up during the days between Christmas and New Year.
In an emergency, employees must be called to the hospital.
It is "everything a little closer", but you have "no massive bottleneck", says Brändle about the personnel situation.
As for infections in your own ranks, you have been lucky so far.
You try everything that there are no outbreaks.
Because of the upcoming vaccinations, the Penzberger Klinik is in close contact with the district office.
"We have been dealing with this topic for two or three weeks," explains Brändle.
It is also a logistical challenge.
The medical director expects that the clinic staff will be vaccinated early next year, directly in the hospital.
But that does not mean, according to Brändle, “that we can vaccinate the population here”.
That's what the vaccination centers are for.
"But it would be nice," he adds, "if as many people as possible get vaccinated, because that way we can get the virus down."