To support hospitals in financial distress, the state of Brandenburg is launching its own state program in the short term. This is intended to bridge time until the planned one Hospital reform by Federal Health Minister Prof. Karl Lauterbach (SPD). “We want to preserve all of our hospitals,” said Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) after the hospital conference on January 23rd in Potsdam.
Cheap loans
Finance Minister Katrin Lange (SPD) announced that hospitals with high financial deficits should be able to take out loans from the State Investment Bank with the help of the support program. This applies to publicly owned houses. The conditions are more favorable than on the free credit market. The program, the volume of which is still being determined, should be launched for a limited period of one to one and a half years for public institutions, said Lange. A group of experts will examine the affected hospitals on a case-by-case basis. The minister was initially unable to say how many clinics would be eligible for such liquidity support.
We want to build a bridge until the federal government has done its homework and the reform comes into force.
Hospital company calls the situation serious
Many hospitals nationwide are in financial difficulties. In Brandenburg, too, there are already cuts in care, for example due to the closure of clinic departments. The hospital company, clinic managers as well as district administrators and mayors were present at the hospital conference in the State Chancellery.
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“The situation of Brandenburg’s hospitals is dramatic, the specter of insolvency is looming,” said the chairman of the state hospital association, Dr. Detlef Troppens. There were large gaps between revenues and costs. The federal government’s planned hospital reform should not result in large areas of a state like Brandenburg being left without a hospital.
Renewed demand for emergency federal aid
The state government criticized the federal government for not providing enough money to adequately finance the clinics’ increasing operating costs. The institutions now urgently need emergency aid until the reform comes into force, demanded Prime Minister Woidke.
Controversial points should also be discussed in the mediation committee of the Bundestag and Bundesrat. Health Minister Ursula Nonnemacher (Greens) said she hoped that the federal government would still move. Otherwise, ailing houses could “run out of air”.
According to its own information, the state of Brandenburg is giving around two million euros to the hospitals in the current legislative period, almost half of which comes from state funds. The federal states are responsible for investment funds for the hospitals, the federal government for operating costs.
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2024-01-23 21:21:58
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