Because clinics are notoriously underfunded, urgently needed investments are being pushed back and forth.
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Berlin It is a permanent annoyance for the operators, forces them to sometimes adventurous cross-financing and also unintentionally puts an end to some hospitals: the much too low investment financing of the hospitals by the federal states.
In 2020, the federal states once again fell short of their obligation to pay for the necessary investments in the clinics. They made just a little more than three billion euros available for this in the first year of the pandemic – although the investment requirement was more than double, namely a good six billion euros.
This is a current inventory of the German Hospital Society (DKG). The association complains that “the problem of chronic underfunding of clinics in the investment area, which has persisted for three decades, is continuing”. Adjusted for inflation, the funding amount has “almost halved” since 1991.
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