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Knappschaft Kliniken GmbH steers the hospitals and rehabilitation clinics of its network, which comprises 13 acute hospitals and 3 rehabilitation clinics in seven hospital associations, with about 4,870 beds. Its subsidiary Knappschaft Kliniken Solution GmbH provides central marketing, finance and HR shared service centres, IT infrastructure, strategic procurement of medical supplies and a central nursing pool. Knappschaft Kliniken Akademie GmbH offers training and continuing education in healthcare.

The network treats patients in inpatient and outpatient care, about 1 million per year, across departments such as internal medicine, oncology, cardiology and neurology, with emergency care provided around the clock. Its services are provided to the companies of the clinic network, and the network is publicly owned, with the German pension insurer DRV Knappschaft-Bahn-See holding at least 50 percent.

Clinic sites are in Bochum, Dortmund, Bottrop, Marl, Recklinghausen, Gelsenkirchen, Püttlingen and Sulzbach. The network reports about 15,470 employees and over 1,900 trainees. Solution is run centrally from Bochum and Dortmund. Current job families include nursing, medical service, IT and technology, administration, medical-technical staff, therapy, and apprenticeships, internships and volunteer service.

Product: Acute hospital and rehabilitation care, plus shared services (IT, procurement, HR and finance service centres, marketing) and healthcare training through the Akademie.