The Garmisch-Partenkirchen children's clinic, an institution in the field of rheumatism therapy, has a new sponsor: the previous main shareholder, the Schmeuert family, handed over its participation to the Protestant Diakonieverein Berlin-Zehlendorf.
The partner of choice wants to invest heavily and expand the range.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- The Garmisch-Partenkirchen Children's Rheumatism Clinic, with around 250 employees, is the largest of its kind in Europe and looks back on over 65 years of experience. It sets international standards in the treatment of children's rheumatism. Around 3500 patients are treated there every year - inpatient and outpatient. The German Center for Child and Adolescent Rheumatology, the Center for Pain Therapy for Young People and the Social Pediatric Center are united under one roof.
After lengthy negotiations - the first talks apparently started about two years ago - the ownership structure was reorganized.
The main shareholder of the non-profit operator GmbH with around 83 percent has been the Frankfurt investor Dr.
Karl-Heinz Schmiegel, who bought the independent facility from the Rummelsberger Anstalten in 2010 and thus enabled it to continue as an independent entity.
Due to his age, he now arranged the succession and sold his shares to the partner of choice: the Protestant Diakonieverein Berlin-Zehlendorf, who has the say.
Close cooperation in the field of care
"The good future of the clinic is very important to my wife and me," Schmeuert explains in a press release. The specialist clinic has close cooperation in the field of nursing with the Diakonie. Diaconal sisters have been active there for many decades. The Rummelsberg establishments were also part of the welfare family. “Back to the future” is therefore the unanimous motto.
The Diakonieverein, comparable to the Caritas of the Catholic Church, has been dedicated to the sick, pediatric and elderly care for more than a century and is active with many institutions in the health care system. He has big plans in Garmisch-Partenkirchen: “We want to continue investing millions in the expansion,” explains Jan Dreher, the board member. A number of modernizations are on the agenda. The offer should also grow. “It is the goal of everyone involved that this unique clinic and its employees have a successful future,” emphasizes Dreher.
Co-partner (around 17 percent) and managing medical director remains Prof. Dr.
Johannes-Peter Haas.
He is convinced: "Our modern holistic therapy concept and the interpersonal interaction with patients, relatives, but also the employees among themselves can only be further developed in a sustainable manner in a non-profit organization." He is supported by the commercial director Clemens Stafflinger, who was also confirmed in office .
High transfer fee for real estate
The general economic conditions of the takeover are interesting.
According to Dreher, the face value of 83,000 euros - a symbolic amount - was paid for the said majority of the clinic.
Far more expensive was the transfer of the property, which is owned by Dr.
Sunwint Haas and Doris SchmATING were found to be the partners' two wives (in the Haas case, the ex-wife).
An exact amount could not be found.
The whole thing was confidential, it was said.
But it should have been several million euros.
And how is the hospital doing economically?
Good, reports Dreher.
“We are profitable.” But it is not about generating high returns.
The surplus will be invested, for example in medical equipment.
By the way: the clinic has an influential and prominent advocate. The former Bavarian Prime Minister Günther Beckstein (CSU), who is involved in the Protestant Church, will be a member of the planned advisory board. The top politician recently visited the district office and town hall together with the clinic managers to present the new sponsorship.