Small clinics have a hard time.
That is why District Administrator Anton Speer is open to discussions with Wolfratshausen District Hospital: Is the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Clinic expanding?
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Small clinics have a hard time.
Quite a few are in the red, which politicians don't like.
Even those that are in municipal hands are struggling to survive when economic viability is in trouble.
Some regional examples: The district of Weilheim-Schongau closed the hospital in Peißenberg years ago, the one in Penzberg should also be closed.
Only after public protests was the Penzberg house preserved and sold to the Starnberg Clinic.
The Garmisch-Partenkirchen Clinic, which had also tried to build the 100-bed hospital, did not get a chance.
Now the people of Garmisch-Partenkirchen are said to be interested in a crisis hospital in the region again.
According to District Administrator Josef Niedermaier (Free Voters), the Wolfratshausen district clinic (Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district) needs a strategic partner to make it “robust and storm-proof”.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen comes into question, as well as the clinic group Asklepios, Starnberg and the Agatharied hospital
In addition to the Asklepios, Starnberg and Agatharied Hospital, Garmisch-Partenkirchen is also traded as one of the possible candidates.
From the point of view of the management consultancy Vicondo, which carried out a study on health care in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district, now would have been a good time to start negotiations with all of these houses.
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Frank Niederbühl is the managing director of the clinic.
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In Garmisch-Partenkirchen one is surprised that the clinic is mentioned in connection with Wolfratshausen. Martina Tille from the press department announced that this topic was taken from the press. “There are neither concepts nor offers on the part of the clinic,” wrote Tille by e-mail in response to a request from the daily newspaper. Managing director Frank Niederbühl, who has been in office since November last year, did not want to comment. District Administrator Anton Speer (Free Voters), who is also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Klinikum GmbH, is not quite as buttoned up. “Basically, I can say that the networking of clinics to maintain health care for our citizens is important and sensible, the corona pandemic in particular made this clear to us. In this respect, the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Clinic is always open to discussions ",he explains.
Niederbühl's predecessor already pursued an expansion strategy
Niederbühl's predecessor, Bernward Schröter, who was in charge of Auenstrasse from 2014 to 2020, pursued an expansion strategy.
He had partnerships in mind, maybe also takeovers.
There is a cooperation through the pharmacy with the clinics in Weilheim and Schongau.
There were also talks under Schröter in 2019 with the Wolfratshausen district clinic when they were interested in getting medical specialists from Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
At that time, however, Schröter did not only want to give, but also to take.
It could not be "that we make the diagnoses, the operations that may be necessary, then be made in Wolfratshausen".
Next to health, money plays the most important role in a clinic
They bring in money. In addition to health, this plays the most important role in a clinic. Schröter knew how to deal with that. Before the start of the corona pandemic, he was regularly in the black in the lower single-digit million euro range. And he had invested the profit. In legs, i.e. caring staff, and stones. According to Tille, “numerous expansions have been made in recent years to take account of developments in medicine and medical technology”. The last phase of construction was put into operation, which focused on the renovation of the ward block with the normal wards.
Niederbühl wants to continue on this path. According to Tille, the intention is to continue the renovation of other components and areas that are essential for clinical operation as soon as possible. For projects of this kind, an up-to-date assessment of the needs of the hospital's planned beds - currently the number is 415 - is required, which the Bavarian State Ministry for Health and Care has now carried out. On this basis, a structural target and development plan is created, which is discussed with the responsible departments of the ministry and the funding authorities. “Our goal is to be able to define the scope and areas of the upcoming construction phase by the end of the year,” says Tille.
