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Clinics are running out of money. They postpone predictable operations to keep intensive care beds clear for Covid-19 patients. Now, the hospital company warns that salaries will be in danger from the first quarter of 2021.
The German Hospital Society is sounding the alarm in light of crown-related operational restrictions: “If the federal government does not significantly increase aid, national clinics will no longer be able to pay their employees’ salaries in the first quarter of 2021 “said the president of the Society of Hospitals, Gerald Gaß, the publishing network of Germany.
“The money for standard care is missing,” Gaß said. The hospitals had limited financial resources.
In mid-December, the federal government put in place a new rescue package for hospitals. According to the concept of the Ministry of Health, they receive compensation payments in areas that are particularly exposed to corona if they forgo deferred interventions and thus keep beds and intensive care beds free for Covis patients 19. Of this, however, Only 25 percent of clinics are registered, Gaß explained.
Two-thirds of houses expect losses
The president of the association suggested that the clinics should receive their budget on a monthly basis based on 2019 and that they should be billed precisely at the end of 2021.
Two thirds of all clinic operators expect losses in 2020 as a whole, as shown by the current hospital barometer of the German Hospital Institute (DKI), which is available for the Berlin “Tagesspiegel”. Only 18 percent of the nearly 2,000 clinics with 1.3 million employees rate their current financial situation as good.
