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Networkers among themselves: Representatives from 70 Gautingen companies came to the community's business breakfast on the topic of health and medicine on Thursday.
Mayor Dr.
Brigitte Kössinger (center) and location promoter Dr.
Fabian Kühnel-Widmann (3rd from right).
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The community of Gauting invited people to their business breakfast again on Thursday.
The purpose: to network companies that work in the same industry.
This time it was about a sector where this is particularly needed: health and medicine.
Gauting – doctors, pharmacists, psychologists, physiotherapists, midwives, nursing services, operators of yoga studios and, and, and: There are many companies active in the health sector.
What they have in common is that they are going through difficult times.
“The health system is on edge,” said Gauting’s economic development officer Dr.
Fabian Kühnel-Widmann welcoming the participants of the entrepreneurs' breakfast in the Asklepios Clinic.
“It is all the more important that we find solutions together.” That’s why the town hall employee invited 140 companies from the municipality to exchange ideas, half of which accepted the invitation.
It was the 16th event of this kind in the past eight years, although it had to be paused due to Corona.
It was obvious that the attempt was a success: After the introductions, there was a lot of discussion and many business cards were exchanged.
The welcome was encouraged by Mayor Dr.
Brigitte Kössinger encouraged the participants to get into conversation and use synergy effects.
The experience from previous events shows that some of the companies themselves do not know which other companies there are in the area with which they can cooperate.
In this case, this is particularly important because: “The hospital system is in crisis.”
Care is becoming more and more important
District Administrator Stefan Frey – a guest at the Gautinger entrepreneurs’ breakfast for the first time – fully underlined the assessment.
The basic problem is that big politics has moved too far away from the people, one reform follows the next, he said.
“Above all, it annoys me that employees are faced with great uncertainty and do not know where they will work tomorrow.
That wears people down.”
Local politics also suffered from this, for example the district, which had to stop the construction of a new clinic in Herrsching, regardless of the fact that a million euros had already been invested and a development plan had been completed.
Frey held out the prospect of convening a nursing conference this year where “practice assistance will be provided beyond fundamental questions.”
The district administrator emphasized that nursing is an area that is becoming increasingly important.
The district is getting older.
Of the 139,000 residents the district currently has, 20,000 are over 80 years old and 50,000 are over 65 years old.
Of course, it also plays a role that many pensioners move to the district to enjoy their retirement there.
Frey certified that the Asklepios Clinic had “European importance” as a pulmonary specialist clinic and recalled that the vaccination center was housed there during the corona pandemic.
“I remember well how 2,000 people were vaccinated here in one day.
People had a happy smile on their faces.” The topic of health is one that is “burning on people’s minds.”
Hospital reform causes uncertainty
Felix Rauschek, Asklepios regional manager Bavaria South/West, gave an insight into how the current uncertainty affects a company like Asklepios with its 70,000 employees and 160 facilities across Germany.
“The big reform has been hanging over us for a year and a half.
Of course, that makes it difficult to make investments.” Overall, the trend is to reduce the length of time patients stay in hospitals.
“The payers tell us: make it faster, make it outpatient.” Previously, patients would have stayed in a clinic for an average of two weeks, but now it would only be five days on average.
“If you know that compensation is now only a third to a tenth, then you know that many processes need to be restructured.”
Investments are being made in the Gautinger Clinic, which Rauschek described as a “hidden champion”: the so-called weaning station will be renovated for six million euros, with the Free State and Asklepios sharing the costs.
“We want to be finished by late summer,” said Rauschek.
He also promised 90 percent digitalization of documentation by 2024.
“We used to produce kilometers of paper.
Now it is over."
By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Starnberg newsletter.
You can find even more current news from the Starnberg district at Merkur.de/Starnberg.