What the German clinics really lack

Clinics at the limit

The situation in the hospitals has been tense for a long time – now there is an attempt at reform.

  • Too many clinics and often mediocre quality with enormous costs – the hospitals in Germany are at the limit. From 2024, a large-scale reform law should remedy the situation.
  • Core of the revolution: The settlements according to case flat rates are to be pushed back and the clinics are to be classified into three care levels.
  • The CEO of the church clinic operator Agaplesion, Markus Horneber, fears that the reform will have to close important departments in many clinics. Read what he suggests instead here.

Maximilian Adelung knows the deadly sides of the German hospital system. Adelung is a specialist lawyer for medical law in Munich, and the people he reports on either did not survive the system or only just survived it. Recently, Adelung’s law firm dealt with the case of a man who underwent open abdominal surgery while water was dripping from the ventilation system above him. The liquid ran into the wound and contaminated the surgical instruments, and the man died of blood poisoning.

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