The Rosenheim health department has imposed an admission freeze for patients in the specialist clinic for geriatric rehabilitation in Bruckmühl. After the authority had found deficiencies in infection hygiene and patient care during an inspection, this measure was taken, which is valid until “at least” August 25th. This was confirmed by a spokesman for the Rosenheim district office on Wednesday when asked. Previously had that Upper Bavarian Volksblatt reported about it. The recording stop came after an official inspection last Friday.
According to information from the SZ, there was another check on Tuesday, in which additional experts were involved. There had been speculation in the region for a few days about possible grievances in the clinic – because of a complaint from a patient relative about what she saw as “scandalous” understaffing among the nursing staff. And against the background that the same managing director works there as at the Lenggries rehabilitation clinic. The closure of this facility was ordered at the end of July and the operating license was revoked. In the Lenggries case, the public prosecutor’s office and the criminal police are investigating three people on suspicion of poor nursing care and intentional bodily harm; this is about suspected incorrect insulin delivery.
According to the district office, the first check in Bruckmühl was unannounced, for example the structural condition, organization and, above all, the nursing and medical care were checked. The “deficiencies in infection hygiene, patient care and documentation” were discussed in detail with the clinic management, it said, with the issuing of conditions. After the end of the recording stop, a new assessment should take place. Insiders from the health scene reported to the SZ that two controls within such a short time were unusual; Nobody does that if they don’t expect further grievances. In addition, the Medical Service (MD) Bavaria – the expert for more than ten million citizens with statutory health and long-term care insurance – was consulted in the course of an administrative assistance procedure for the second campaign. The MD, who is not actually responsible for rehabilitation clinics, has the reputation of a “fire brigade” in the scene.
The managing director of the two rehabilitation clinics, Nikolaus N., who is being investigated in the Lenggries case, says he is a minority shareholder in a holding company whose subsidiaries are the two different operators of the two clinics. The main owner is a Dutch-German investment company. N. told the SZ about Bruckmühl: “At no time was the direct care of the patient affected.” On the one hand, it is about failures in digitization, nurses have not sufficiently documented individual steps in care and medication. On the other hand, there was major water damage in the clinic, and premises were lost due to the upcoming renovation; as a result, the storage of medicines was also “not perfect”. The deficiencies will be addressed within two weeks, the first “efforts” were positively received by the inspectors on Tuesday.