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Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Association sounds the alarm
Clinics will soon no longer be able to pay salaries
In the corona pandemic, many hospitals have the capacity to treat Covid-19 cases. Other interventions will have to wait. As a result, some houses got into trouble, government aid is too little, industry representatives complain. The situation is “dramatic”.
German hospitals are sounding the alarm because of their particularly strained financial situation during the Corona crisis. The president of the German Hospital Society, Gerald Gaß, warned in the publishing network newspapers in Germany that clinics in general would no longer be able to pay their employees’ salaries in the first quarter of 2021 if they no longer received help.
The clinics were in a “dramatic situation” with only limited financial resources, Gass said. “The money for standard care is missing.” The federal government must significantly increase its aid. Hospitals need “liquidity security”. According to the plans of the Federal Ministry of Health, clinics in areas particularly affected by the pandemic should receive compensation payments if they forgo interventions that can be postponed and thus keep beds free.
However, from the point of view of the hospital society, this concept is far from sufficient. The new rescue package is “only a minor improvement,” Gaß complained. Only 25 percent of clinics would be covered. In spring, however, there was a rescue package that was applied to all hospitals: “at that time there were only about half of the patients with Covid-19.”
According to the German Hospital Institute (DKI), two-thirds of all clinic operators expect losses in the last year, according to the “Tagesspiegel”. According to this, only 18 percent of the nearly 2,000 clinics with a total of 1.3 million employees rate their current financial situation as good.
