Overview
- About 350 employees were notified on March 18 that the Wilhelmsburg facility will close.
- Patient care at the site will continue until June 30, with the outpatient MVZ remaining open beyond that.
- Plans call for geriatrics and neurological early rehabilitation to move to the Catholic Marienkrankenhaus, pending hospital-planning approval.
- Talks with the City of Hamburg over a potential purchase of the site for a district clinic are ongoing and unresolved.
- Emergency and surgical units shut last year, leaving an area of roughly 60,000 residents with sharply reduced acute services.