Helios revolutionizes health: clusters for better care!

Helios revolutionizes health: clusters for better care!

Hünfeld, Deutschland - In Hesse there are exciting news from the world of hospitals. The Helios Group, one of the largest private health service providers, has announced that it will switch its approximately 80 locations to a new cluster model. CEO Robert Möller announced that the first cluster such as the three-country cluster in Hünfeld, Meiningen and Bad Kissingen were launched. This initiative aims to intensify medical care in regional networks and to promote closer networking of specialist departments, clinics and medical care centers (MVZ). Increasing quality and innovation are in the foreground, such as kma-online.de reports.

The innovative concept stipulates that each cluster consists of four to five clinic locations, each of which is medical priorities. The idea is to respond quickly and quickly to the needs of the patients. Helios intends to implement the approaches of the ongoing hospital reform and to bundle complex and highly specialized medical services in clinics of maximum and focus supply. Clinics of basic care and specialized specialist clinics should also be integrated into these structures and thus round off the offer.

hospital reform as an opportunity

The implementation of the cluster model is supported by the planned hospital reform. Dr. Stefan Gronemeyer, CEO of the Medical Service BUND, sees this reform a great way to improve the quality of treatment in the clinics. Current exams show an acute lack of personnel and inadequate fulfillment of the requirements for complex medical services. According to md-bund.de, a comprehensive reform is essential to raise the quality of care to a new level.

With the hospital provision of improvement law (KHVVVG), qualified clinics are intended to play a central role in complex treatments, such as stroke care or special cancer therapies. In addition to strengthening basic care, you also want to rely on independent quality tests in order to further optimize the quality of service. In combination with the new performance group system, which is to be introduced in hospital planning, this could lead to a clearer picture of the requirements for clinics.

a new era of clinic financing

Another crucial point is the changes in hospital financing. The introduction of the residual finance is intended to make a paradigm shift by taking structural costs into account regardless of the number of patients. Klinikmanagement-Akademie.de reports that a significant part of the financing will be carried out through lump sums that cover personnel, infrastructure and technical equipment. This could reduce the pressure on clinics and enable better predictability.

In the course of this reforming, the specialization of the clinics will also increase. Smaller facilities should concentrate on basic care or become outpatient care centers, while larger clinics have to redefine their strategic priorities. High -specialized centers for complex interventions will be created, and clinic managers see themselves challenged to check their service portfolio and to plan necessary investments in the future.

These exciting developments in the hospital landscape in Hesse offer the opportunity to significantly improve health care and to take new ways in patient care. It remains to be seen how the changes will affect medical care on site.