What is the clinic reform about?
The state is planning a fundamental restructuring of its 35 hospital locations. The aim is to achieve more quality, efficiency and crisis resistance through a differentiated supply model.
How crisis is our health system?
Schleswig-Holstein arises with a comprehensive reform of the hospital landscape, which also pays nationwide attention. A team of the NDR Schleswig-Holstein Was a guest at TH Lübeck as part of his research and spoke to the project team.
Who is involved?
The restructuring is shared by the Ministry of Justice and Health of the State of Schleswig-Holstein (State Secretary Katja Rathje-Hoffmann), through the Doctor Chamber of Schleswig-Holsteinthe Hospital company SH as well as numerous experts from science and practice. Practice partners are the Sana Kliniken Lübeck, the North Friesland Clinic, the Kiel Städtische Hospital and the Catharinen-Hospital Fördeklinikum.
TH Lübeck continues to think – in the Beyond Expediency project
The project is managed by Dipl.-Ing. Architect Stephan Wehrig, who with his professorship, the health building at the department Construction the TH Lübeck is responsible. He and his team think with the project title Beyond Expediency – far beyond classic functionalities: Hospital planning must not only be functional, but also human -centered and sustainable
says Wehrig.
They face concrete challenges – for example: to design waiting areas in such a way that they reduce stress, enable shorter paths and intuitive guidelines and think about structural adjustments to extreme weather events.
University research made visible
In its contribution, the NDR Schleswig-Holstein documented how researched and taught at TH Lübeck in a practical and socially relevant manner. The project shows how application -oriented science can be combined with practical requirements. This is particularly important for health buildings that have a high level of social importance. We are very pleased that we can get this project on the way together with the state and for Schleswig-Holstein
said Dr. Kim Muriel Helbig, President of the TH Lübeck in the course of the transfer of funding for the project in December 2024.
Specialist day Beyond Expediency
The team organizes a specialist day on October 16, 2025, which includes, among other things Good building is possible – we are working on better conditions. Click here for registration: https://www.beyond-expediency.de/
NDR contributions
https://www.ndr.de/fernsehungen/schleswig-holstein_magazin/wie-set-das-krankenhaus-der-zukun-aus.-hmag127586.html (Available until May 14, 2027)))
More about the project
https://www.beyond-expediency.de