Most clinics in Saxony are in the red due to increasing burdens. "The current situation is undoubtedly no longer acceptable for the hospitals," says Friedrich München, Managing Director of Krankenhausgesellschaft Sachsen (KGS). He is urgently calling for quick decisions to ensure continued high-quality healthcare in the coming months. "We appeal to the federal government to provide liquidity assistance and funds for economic security immediately." Otherwise, further hospital closures or the abandonment of care structures that have been secured for many years are to be expected.
According to Munich, the facilities already drew attention to an "extreme risk of insolvency" in the fall of 2022. Independent analyses had also reflected "that almost every second hospital is at risk of insolvency and almost no hospital is in the black". A survey conducted by KGS in mid-2023 confirmed this. According to the survey, well over two thirds (87%) of the participating hospitals stated that they would have closed 2022 with a deficit without state support and expected a further deterioration in 2023.
