Abstracts by keywords: concentration
As part of the Bertelsmann Foundation's “Reorganization of Hospital Care” project, a target image was developed for the German hospital landscape in 2030, which is primarily based on higher quality requirements without resulting in poorer accessibility. The starting point of the Bertelsmann Foundation's “Reorganization of the Hospital Landscape” project is the assessment, shared by numerous healthcare experts, that the hospital sector in Germany is still characterized by overcapacity, a particularly large number of small hospitals, as well as insufficient concentration and specialization, which lead to deficits in the quality of treatment , an above-average frequency of acquisition of patients via the emergency room as well as the treatment of patients without the need for inpatient treatment (so-called “outpatient-sensitive conditions”), loss of efficiency and sometimes ruinous competition.