Bavarian State Office for Care
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| State level | Free State of Bavaria | ||
| Position of the authority | Specialist authority | ||
| Headquarters | On the mountain | ||
| Authority management | Markus Schick | ||
| Employee | approx. 100 - in the final stage up to 350 | ||
| Website | http://www.lfp.bayern.de/ | ||
The Bavarian State Office for Care (LfP), based in Amberg, is a state authority subordinate to the Bavarian State Ministry for Health and Care .
In addition to organizing and implementing many funding procedures, the State Office is a specialist scientific authority for care-related issues. Basic information is made available to political bodies, such as data on the supply situation and structures in the field of “care” in Bavaria.
To the formation
Bavaria is the first federal state with its own state office that takes care of care issues. The Bavarian Prime Minister Dr. Markus Söder announced the founding of the LfP in his government declaration on April 18, 2018 as part of the 10-point program for care in Bavaria. At the same time, a development team was set up to establish the state office. On July 15, 2018, the first employees started their work at the new headquarters of the future state office in Amberg. The Bavarian State Minister for Health and Care, Melanie Huml , Member of the State Parliament , and Albert Füracker , Member of the State Minister of Finance and Home, officially opened the Bavarian State Office for Care on September 20, 2018.
Field Office
The Bavarian State Office for Nursing is based in the independent city of Amberg in Upper Palatinate / Bavaria and is housed in the former Bundeswehr hospital (BWK). The Bundeswehr hospital was built between 1936 and 1938 as a site hospital for the Wehrmacht. In 1957, the Bundeswehr took over the property. From 1958, major renovations and extensions were carried out, around 40,000 patients were treated in the BWK every year. Further major new construction measures (operating theater area, technical infrastructure) followed in the years 1996 to 2003. In 2007 the hospital was closed as part of the reform of the Bundeswehr hospitals. Two years later, the investor ParkCampus GmbH, today part of the denkmal.neu Group, took over the property and converted the BWK in several phases for new use.
organization
The LfP is divided into several departments and units. The president of the LfP is Markus Schick.
The LfP's staff consists of employees and civil servants. A wide variety of professional groups work at the LfP: Nursing and health scientists, social pedagogues, psychologists, business economists, lawyers, computer scientists, architects, civil engineers, administrative officials and administrative clerks. In the final stage, up to 350 employees will work on the LfP.
tasks
The Bavarian state care allowance
A central task of the LfP is the organization of the Bavarian state care allowance - from processing the application through to payment. The state care allowance is part of the extensive care package that the Bavarian state government decided in May 2018. People who have been classified with care level 2 or higher and have their main residence in Bavaria are entitled to 1,000 euros per year. With the state care allowance, people in need of care should receive appreciation and financial support. Every year around 350,000 people receive the Bavarian state care allowance.
The Bavarian midwife bonus
Since September 1, 2018, freelance midwives can apply for the Bavarian Midwife Bonus of 1,000 euros per year. The aim is to support freelance midwives in Bavaria who look after at least four births a year. The 1,000 euros are paid out annually and are intended to help ensure nationwide care for midwives. At the same time, an incentive should be created for freelance midwives to decide to work in obstetrics. The LfP is responsible for the Bavarian midwifery bonus from the initial entry of the applications through the examination to the decision.
Subsidiary premium for midwives and maternity carers
The one-time settlement bonus for midwives and maternity carers is 5,000 euros. It can be applied for at the LfP and is intended to recognize and support midwives and maternity carers who want to set up freelance in Bavaria. The aim of the premium is to ensure that expectant mothers as well as mothers and their newborns receive comprehensive, local care and care from midwives.
WoLeRaF - funding guidelines care
The Free State of Bavaria is promoting the establishment of new outpatient assisted living communities, the creation of short-term care places in inpatient care facilities and innovative individual projects on care issues. The basis is WoLeRaF, the guideline for the promotion of new outpatient assisted living communities as well as for the promotion of projects to improve the quality of life and the framework conditions in care (funding guidelines care). Funding can be requested from the LfP.
CareSonahFöR
The promotion of nursing care in the social environment, in short PflegesoNah, also falls within the scope of the LfP. The funding guidelines are intended to help expand a comprehensive and needs-based nursing care structure so that people in need of care can stay at home in their familiar surroundings - in their close social area - for as long as possible. Short-term, day and night care places, but also long-term care places - with and without opening into the social environment - and outpatiently supervised residential communities and meeting places can be funded.
Support program for care support points
For questions about the topic of “care” in general, but also for more specific questions about help and support offers for people in need of care in everyday life, care support points are good contact points. Existing care offers are coordinated here. The aim is to provide care as close as possible to people in need of care. The Free State of Bavaria and the federal government are therefore promoting the establishment of new care support points as well as the networking of existing care support points, among other things in order to strengthen the transfer of knowledge between the various contact points.
Nursing Profession Act
The LfP deals with many questions relating to the shortage of skilled workers in nursing. This also includes the restructuring of nursing training. With the start of the so-called generalist nursing training, i.e. joint training in health and nursing, health and children's nursing and care for the elderly, financing also had to be secured. The Free State of Bavaria bears part of the costs for the training. The LfP represents the Free State in the negotiations on the training flat rates.
Bavarian Dementia Fund
The office of the Bavarian Dementia Fund is located at the LfP. The fund is part of the dementia strategy of the Bavarian state government . It is intended to support local projects and scientific work that help people with dementia and their relatives to continue to participate in social life despite the illness.
Hospice and palliative care
The office for the expert group on hospice and palliative care is based at the LfP. This is where the work in the field of outpatient and inpatient hospice and palliative care is coordinated and developed. In seven different working groups (for the areas of “hospital”, “inpatient facilities”, “children and adolescents”, “health care planning”, “outpatient care”, “innovative concepts” and “integration assistance”) experts develop new care concepts. The aim is to further improve the care of seriously ill and dying people in Bavaria. To this end, high-quality care offers are to be created.
Other nursing tasks
- Nursing staff training and recruitment, caring relatives
- Mentoring strategy for fewer dropouts in nursing
- Action plan for reducing bureaucracy and digitization in care - the LfP is a cooperation partner of digiDEM Bavaria and a model partner of the Bavarian State Ministry for Digital (StMD) for citizen-friendly, digital access to authorities
- Support in taking stock of offers of assistance for children of sick parents
- Assessments and statements in the funding area - e.g. B. in the promotion of care support points or participation in dementia, as well as dementia-sensitive construction and organization within the framework of investment cost subsidies
- Statements on specialist topics and citizens' inquiries
Web links
- lfp.bayern.de - The homepage of the Bavarian State Office for Care
- landespflegegeld.bayern.de - important information about the Bavarian state care allowance with FAQs
- hebammenbonus.bayern.de - Information about the Bavarian midwife bonus
- pflegesonah.bayern.de - further information on the funding guidelines PflegesoNah
- Demenzfonds.bayern.de - all important information about the Bavarian Dementia Fund
- stmgp.bayern.de - The homepage of the Bavarian State Ministry for Health and Care
- bestellen.bayern.de - order portal for free information material such as flyers or applications