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The hospitals of the Ried (Vinzenz Group) and Braunau (TAU Group) order will cooperate in the future in a joint venture. Leaders of the order and hospital management announced it on Monday. The “Ordensklinikum Innviertel Holding GmbH” will be the parent company of the St. Josef Hospital in Braunau and the Hospital of the Sisters of Mercy in Ried early next year.
It is time to turn the “side by side” into a union and to join forces, said the two Superiors General, Sr. Angelika Garstenauer (Franciscan Sisters of Vöcklabruck) and Sr. Cordula Kreinecker (Sisters of Charity).
Both TAU.Group and Vinzenz Gruppe will each have a 50 percent stake in the stake, said Johann Stroblmair, Managing Director of TAU.Group. With the establishment of the holding company, one makes a significant contribution to “further development of medical quality in patient care close to home at Innviertel,” said Michael Heinisch, Managing Director of the Vinzenz Group. The strategy is clear: “Gather competencies and expand and strengthen healthcare,” Heinisch said.
“Cooperation at eye level”
“Today we are also seeing how important it is, due to the current pandemic situation, to be able to make arrangements quickly and thus ensure good care for the local population,” said Johann Minihuber, Managing Director of Rieder Hospital. Cooperation and structured agreements are a fundamental point for this. “We want and will pool our strengths for the best possible medical services in the Innviertel supply region,” says Minihuber.
Erwin Windischbauer, General Manager of the TAU Group and Braunau Hospital, emphasized that we wanted to go down this path together with all the employees. Both general directors will be present alternately in the hospitals. This is intended to show and exemplify “eye level cooperation.” “With this step, we want to ensure long-term medical care close to home at an excellent level. For this, we need excellent employees, whom we want to link more closely with Innviertel through the new constellation, ”said Windischbauer. The previous close cooperation with the clinic in Schärding will be further developed in terms of supplying to the entire Innviertel region, it has already worked well, stressed Vinzenz CEO Michael Heinisch.
The departments are preserved
Medical departments must remain in their respective hospital locations, Minihuber and Windischbauer note.
“There are areas of focus, like pancreatic surgery, in which we group the competencies, because certain numbers of cases are a quality criterion here that we can only get through this,” said Johann Minihuber. “We will promote specialization in various areas of expertise in order to keep specialists in the region,” emphasized Erwin Windischbauer. Some examples are neurology at Ried and psychiatry at Braunau. “We have a shared responsibility,” Minihuber and Windischbauer said. General regional thinking in health care trumps pure location thinking.
Together against Corona
When asked how hospitals are working together in the fight against the corona pandemic, Windischbauer replied: “The medical directors of the three Innviertel hospitals have coordinated very well to ensure the care of Covid 19 patients. Here the Innviertel supply region comes to the fore. We transferred a patient from Braunau to Ried Hospital because our intensive care beds were full at the time. This ensured that the patient could stay in the region. “
Ried and Braunau hospitals with 812 beds and a total of 2,725 employees (as of 2019) are among the largest employers in Innviertel. Last year around 49,000 hospitalized patients were treated and around 25,000 operations were performed. That is about 13 percent of all operations in Upper Austria.
