Religious and diaconal hospitals in Austria
The religious hospitals are, in addition to the publicly owned hospitals and the private hospitals as private non-profit hospitals, also part of the hospital system in Austria .
In addition to the predominantly Roman Catholic religious orders , four hospitals are also operated by Diakonie Österreich .
Importance in Austria
The proportion of hospital beds in these hospitals is around 20% of all beds nationwide. In Upper Austria the proportion is even 40%. However, criticism comes again and again from the religious hospitals that they would not receive the same subsidies as those from the public sector for the same service. Historically, this was due to the cheaper use of the order's own nursing staff. But the dwindling number of spiritual sisters and brothers means that these hospitals now have the same personnel costs as other institutions. Upper Austria only succeeded in eliminating the inequality for these hospitals in 2008.
But these hospitals are not insignificant as employers either. Around 3,200 people are employed in Vienna alone.
Religious hospitals in Austria
The hospitals formed a working committee as early as 1978, which in 2000 led to the coordination committee for religious hospitals in Austria . All 31 religious and diaconal hospitals are represented in this body in order to safeguard their interests. Naturally, the main focus is on conveying the basic values of their work in the hospitals based on the Christian religion.
Members
Private clinics and sanatoriums
In addition, the Sisters of the Cross still operate
- the Mariahilf private clinic in Graz
- the Hochrum private clinic
- the Sierning Hospital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Serving life (PDF; 881 kB) Edition 1/2009 accessed on July 28, 2010
- ↑ Religious hospitals: A "More to Charity" on ORF -Religion of September 27, 2007, accessed on July 28, 2010
- ^ Sisters of the Cross Graz
- ↑ Hochrum private clinic near Innsbruck
- ↑ Cross Sisters Sierning