Crisis scenario for hospitals: District Administrator Bohlmann raises the alarm!

Crisis scenario for hospitals: District Administrator Bohlmann raises the alarm!

Verden, Deutschland - The district of Verden is faced with massive financial challenges through hospital financing. District Administrator Peter Bohlmann expressed clear resentment in a press conference on the hospital care improvement law (KHVVVG) that came into force on January 1, 2025, which in his opinion does not bring sufficient relief for municipal clinics such as the All-Weser Clinic. The criticism focuses on the steadily increasing deficits, which are reported to be burdened by around 31 million euros in the upcoming household alone. "This is wrong!" Said Bohlmann, who already pointed out the necessary pumping of millions in hospital financing last year. This deficit situation is not just a local problem, but runs through several circles of Lower Saxony, as the Heidekreis shows where a household hole of 28.3 million euros was passed, as Kreiszeitung.de reported.

criticism of federal politics

Bohlmann's objections are not isolated. Together with other local top associations, he sent an appeal to the Lower Saxony state government, according to his latest announcement in the district committee of the district of Verden. This should not agree to the law in the Federal Council, since the current hospital financing - including immense billions of billions for covering losses - does not seem to be portable in the current form. In 2023 alone, six billion euros nationwide flowed into the hospitals for loss coverings, whereby the total expenditure for inpatient services in 2021 was over 109 billion euros, such as daskrankenhaus.de

The Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach is in the linear criticism of the municipal administration, which accuses the federal government, not to be sufficiently responding to the urgency of bridging financing. According to Bohlmann, the impending bankruptcy of many clinics could have fatal consequences, and the refusal of the federal government to grant the necessary inflation compensation could also lead to further tightening the situation. These irritation reaches an alarming dimension, since a higher financial burden on the district budgets is becoming increasingly the norm, which endangers the ensuring medical care.