New Hospital Association LKH Southwest Styria: What does that mean for you?

New Hospital Association LKH Southwest Styria: What does that mean for you?

A new milestone in patient care is heralded when the Hospital Association LKH Southwest Styria is founded. From 2025, this new association will merge the locations Wagna, Deutschlandsberg and Bad Radkersburg and thus significantly improve medical care in South and West Styria. The Styrian Hospital Society (Kages) announced the official confirmation of this restructuring, which was presented in separate press conferences on December 19, 2024, as the Kleine Zeitung reported.

restructuring of the healthcare system

The network LKH Southwest Styria includes the integration of the existing facility in Deutschlandsberg into the Kages hospital in Wagna and the connection to Bad Radkersburg. This is a significant step towards increasing efficiency and optimizing patient -oriented services. In the future, Wagna will act as the center of acute medicine, while the orthopedic treatments in Bad Radkersburg will be concentrated. Primarius Othmar Grabner, the new medical director, emphasizes: "These structural realignment are necessary to keep pace with medical development", according to