Future of health: New hospital network for Liezen ensures upswing!

Future of health: New hospital network for Liezen ensures upswing!

In the district of Liezen, a lot is happening in the area of ​​health care! An expert commission of the Styrian state government has presented a new concept for the hospital structure. The aim is to ensure high -quality and long -term relief for the population. In the current hospital structure, there are massive improvement in improvement due to occupancy deficits: In 2022, the medical skills in Bad Aussee had to deal with only 0.8 patients per night in the outpatient clinic of the internal department. Surgery in Bad Aussee was also only 60 % and only 20 % in Schladming. The situation in gynecology and obstetrics in Schladming is particularly oppressive, where only a 19 % occupancy was recorded in 2023. These circumstances make it difficult to gain new medical staff, and the Commission developed a new solution variant in January 2024, which is known as the "Liezen hospital network" in January 2024. Kommunal.at reports that…

The proposal includes the preservation of the three existing locations: Rottenmann, Bad Aussee and Schladming. This is intended to guarantee better utilization and more efficient patient control in order to be able to tackle the acute problems in health care. It is also emphasized that the emergency supply at all three locations remains around the clock. The establishment of medical priorities in each of the three hospitals strengthens a cooperation that should have a positive effect on the quality of care. Antenne.at describes the details…

New concept for Liezen

The medical focuses are very promising: a department for orthopedics and traumatology is set up in Rottenmann, supplemented with outpatient care offers for children and adolescents as well as hospice beds. In Schladming, cooperation with Rottenmann in the area of ​​orthopedic traumatology is also firmly planned, as is a midwife center for care close to home. Bad Aussee will emerge as the center for older people with a department for acute geriatrics and remobilization. A health center is also sought here, which could enormously enrich the supply landscape. The currently mediated solution is to be presented publicly in the coming days - on June 18, 2025, an appointment for the presentation will be scheduled to promote transparency and distribution, as the state government emphasizes.

This step happens against the background of a comprehensive Health Reform , which forms the basis for sustainable improvements in the health sector. The reform aims to modernize the structure in the Austrian health system and strengthen medical care. A central point is the improvement of outpatient and digital treatments, which is to reduce the need for inpatient stays. The reform has been the largest in decades and will be supported by additional financial resources by 2028. The goal is to raise health services in Austria to a new level in order to take into account the needs of an aging population and to combat the problem of overloading in the hospitals.

The reports about the structural changes in the Liezen district make it clear that those responsible have a good hand in order to meet the complex challenges of the health sector. The planned changes could not only contribute to improving the supply on site, but also taking pressure from the existing facilities and thus creating a future -proof health care that meets both the needs of the population and the requirements for medical infrastructure.