The Brandenburg Municipal Hospital is the initiator of a cooperation of several hospitals in the supply area of Brandenburg an der Havel, Potsdam-Mittelmark and Havelland to control bed capacities and medical resources to improve the care of Covid-19 patients. The group, which also includes the Recura Kliniken Beelitz-Heilstätten and the Johanniter-Krankenhaus Treuenbrietzen and which operates via the Central Coordination Office Hospital Network Supply Cluster Corona West (VCC West), has also brought other hospitals in the area on board. The aim is to control the care of patients with and without Covid-19 disease via the Recare platform using a specially developed control concept, in order to guarantee the best possible care and to conserve existing overall resources. The result is then a precisely coordinated division of labour, because doctors and other persons in charge of coordination can receive and also send transfer requests via the Recare platform. This requires only a short patient profile when transfer requests are received or sent. The platform then looks for correspondingly free bed capacities for transferring patients with normal or intensive care requirements. Both patients affected by the virus and virus-free patients can be transferred and cared for more quickly and optimally. Because the core competence of the platform on clinic cooperation is the centrally controlled division of labour between clinics with different levels of care and specialist clinics in the care area, including St. Marienkrankenhaus Brandenburg, Asklepios Klinikum Brandenburg, Klinikum Westbrandenburg (children’s clinic), Vamed Klinik Hohenstücken, Havelland Kliniken Rathenow and Nauen, Reha Klinik – Oberlin Bad Belzig and Evangelisches Diakonissenhaus Lehnin. In addition, free capacities can be coordinated with other central registers via open interfaces.
