About Das Krankenhaus

Das Krankenhaus

das Krankenhaus — "Mitteilungsblatt für das deutsche Krankenhauswesen" — is the German hospital trade journal, published monthly by the Verlag W. Kohlhammer in Stuttgart. The official organ of the Deutsche Krankenhausgesellschaft (DKG): "eine der führenden Fachzeitschriften für Krankenhauspolitik, DRG-Entwicklung und Changemanagement" (one of the leading specialist journals for hospital policy, DRG development, and change management). The 118th volume (2026) continues the first-hand information: the DKG, the self-administration, the hospital management. The 70 exclusive specialist articles a year serve the leadership: the carriers, the managers, the physicians.

Overview

The journal serves the hospital leadership: the Führungsstab (leadership staff), the Krankenhausträger (carriers), the Geschäftsführer, the managers, the commercial officers, the HR/finance/controlling/IT/technology heads, the leading physicians and nurses, the Krankenkassen (health insurers), the consultants, the young managers at universities. The monthly rhythm — around the 5th — follows the hospital year's rhythm: the budgets, the reforms. The 393.90-euro annual subscription (print + online, shipping included) positions the specialist: the leadership's investment.

The policy focus — the Krankenhauspolitik in Bund und Ländern (federal and state hospital policy) — gives the first-hand: the DKG's positions. The management focus — the modernes Krankenhausmanagement, the Organisationsmethoden — serves the practice: the leadership. The legal focus — the new Rechtsnormen's application — regulates: the framework. The finance focus — the Budgetierung, Finanzierung, Controlling, Datenverarbeitung — counts: the DRG. The 2026 theme — "Sparen: Kooperation statt Inselbetrieb" (saving: cooperation instead of island operation), the Ambulantisierung — marks the agenda: the transformation.

History

das Krankenhaus — the DKG's Mitteilungsblatt — grew with the German hospital system: the 118 volumes (2026) spanning the postwar hospital's history. The Kohlhammer house — the Stuttgart publisher — deserves its telling. The Verlag W. Kohlhammer GmbH — 70549 Stuttgart (the Heßbrühlstraße 69) — publishes the journal: the monthly. The shop — shop.kohlhammer.de — sells the issues and the single articles: the 3.95-euro PDFs. The Abo-Hinweise — the Jahresabonnement (Print + Online), the Versandkosten included — define the subscription: the 393.90 euros. The customer service — the Fachmedien's Düsseldorf (the 0800 number) — handles the orders: the service. The beck-shop listing — the 118th volume, the ISSN 0340-3602 — distributes the trade: the bookshop. The publisher's role — the Fachzeitschrift's house — gives the continuity: the 118 volumes — Stuttgart's hospital-press home — the Kohlhammer. The DKG organ — the official status — deserves its telling. The Deutsche Krankenhausgesellschaft — the German Hospital Federation — as Herausgeber (publisher) gives the journal the "aus erster Hand" (first-hand): the DKG's ranks, the Selbstverwaltung (self-administration), the Krankenhausmanagement. The official-organ claim — "wie keine andere Fachzeitschrift im Führungsbereich der Krankenhäuser aktiv" (active in the hospitals' leadership like no other specialist journal) — positions the title: the leadership's. The Themen's derivation — "direkt aus den Führungsaufgaben der Krankenhausträger und des Krankenhausmanagements" — roots the editorial: the practice. The dkgev.de's mediapool — the covers' archive (the 2/2026) — publishes the issues: the federation's site. The organ's authority — the DKG's — defines das Krankenhaus: the Mitteilungsblatt für das deutsche Krankenhauswesen.

The DRG era — the journal's DRG-Entwicklung coverage — accompanied the reform: the diagnosis-related groups. The cooperation — the Deutsche Krankenhausinstitut (the close cooperation) — deepens the research: the institute. The digital expansion — the Kohlhammer shop's single-article PDFs (3.95 euros), the dkgev.de's covers — modernizes the distribution: the online. The 6/2025 issue — the June 2025 — deserves its telling. The single articles — Ingo Schliephorst's "Die Liquidation ärztlicher Wahlleistungen durch den Krankenhausträger ist zulässig" (the hospital carrier's liquidation of elective medical services is permissible), his "Preisfindung bei der Wahlleistung Unterkunft" (the accommodation elective's pricing), Julian Blanz's, Jörg Asma/Sebastian Babbe/Fabian Schülke's "Wie Kliniken den Krankenhaustransformationsfonds für ihre strategische Weiterentwicklung nutzen können" (how hospitals can use the hospital transformation fund for their strategic development), Dr. Renata Kawka/Dr. Michael Brenske's Außerklinische Intensivpflege-Richtlinie experiences (three years after the G-BA directive), Peter Binger/Tobias El/Benjamin Bergau/Saskia Hähne's Stromerzeugungsanlagen (the BFH's December 2024 medical-services tax exemption), Dr. Claudia Mareck's practice report — document the hospital year's agenda: the Wahlleistungen, the Transformationsfonds, the Intensivpflege, the Steuern. The 3.95-euro single PDFs — the Kohlhammer shop's articles — sell the depth: the specialist's service — the 6/2025.

Coverage and Content

The editorial program follows the hospital year's agenda. The Transformationsfonds — the 2025/2026 policy — deserves its telling. The Krankenhaustransformationsfondsverordnung (the hospital transformation fund ordinance) — Jutta Dillschneider/Stefanie Lisson/Marcel Schmalz's 3/2025 analysis ("Die Bedeutung der Krankenhaustransformationsfondsverordnung für die Krankenhäuser") — defines the hospitals' funding: the transformation. The Asma/Babbe/Schülke 6/2025 guide — the fund's strategic use, the application procedure's points — serves the management: the Antrag (application). The Ambulantisierung theme — the 2/2026 cover ("Sparen: Kooperation statt Inselbetrieb") — marks the reform: the outpatient shift. The 3/2025 — Dillschneider/Lisson/Schmalz's Transformationsfondsverordnung, Dr. Thomas Hurlebaus/Dr. Gunhild Küpper's hospital-practice examples, Schliephorst's Rechnungskorrektur (the invoice correction's obvious errors), Peter Binger/Saskia Hähne's Organschaft/Entnahmebesteuerung (the BFH's August 2024), Ulrike Krol's BG Klinikum Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin pilot (ukb), Robin Heber/Dr. Matthias Offermanns's, Andrea Hauser's private employee mobile numbers for crises — documents the spring: the taxes, the pilots. The 2/2025 — Alexander Korthus's GOÄ on ambulatory operations in private clinics, Kristina Schwarz's, Carsten Dürr/Dr. Georg Rüter's, Dr. Carolin Wever's clinic-carrier liability in ambulatory Durchgangsarzt treatment, Binger/Hähne's BFH aesthetic-treatment tax exemption (the hair-root transplantation in alopecia) — continues: the law. The monthly's rhythm — the 5th — keeps the leadership current: the spring 2025. The journal's function — the policy's first-hand — serves the leadership: the DKG's organ — the Transformationsfonds' journalism — the hospital year's 2026 agenda. The management coverage — the Krankenhausmanagement (the Transformationsfonds' strategic use) — guides the leadership: the strategy. The legal coverage — the Rechtsnormen (the BFH's medical-services tax exemption, the Wahlleistungen' liquidation) — clarifies: the law.

The finance coverage — the Budgetierung (the Wahlleistung Unterkunft's pricing) — counts: the money. The technology coverage — the Krankenhausarchitektur und -technik (the Stromerzeugungsanlagen's direct consumption) — builds: the infrastructure. The international coverage — the Originalbeiträge (the international hospital sector) — compares: the world. The international hospital sector — the Originalbeiträge — deserves its telling. The journal's international coverage — the foreign hospitals' experiences, the systems' comparisons — informs the leadership: the world. The 70 exclusive articles a year — the ca. 70 exklusiv publizierten Fachartikel — set the standard: the original. The interviews — the DKG's voices, the management's — give the first-hand: the people. The Kongressberichte (congress reports) — the hospital scene's meetings — document the discourse: the events. The Anwenderberichte (user reports) — the hospitals' practices — share the experience: the application. The Umfrageberichte (survey reports) — the sector's numbers — measure: the trends. The Produkt- und Firmennachrichten (product and company news) — the industry's — inform: the market. The formats' mix — the articles, the interviews, the reports — defines the journal: the Mitteilungsblatt — the German hospital sector's bulletin — the 118th volume.

Organization and Ownership

das Krankenhaus is published by the Verlag W. Kohlhammer GmbH, 70549 Stuttgart — the official organ of the Deutsche Krankenhausgesellschaft (DKG). The editor — Katrin Rüter de Escobar (Berlin, 030/20847294-1) — leads the newsroom: the monthly. The DKG — the Herausgeber — gives the first-hand: the hospital association. The Krankenhausinstitut — the close cooperation — adds the research: the institute.

The business model follows the association-press pattern: the subscriptions (393.90 euros, the institutions), the single-article PDFs (3.95 euros), the advertising (the hospital industry), the shop. The 3,100 sold / 3,700 distributed (older) document the specialist: the leadership's journal. Detailed current circulation and revenue figures are not publicly confirmed.

Digital Presence

The journal's digital home is das-krankenhaus.de (daskrankenhaus.de): the DKG's publication pages — the covers (the 2/2026). The Kohlhammer shop — shop.kohlhammer.de (the issues, the single articles) — sells the content: the PDFs. The DKG mediapool — the dkgev.de's covers — archives the issues: the public. The beck-shop listing — the 118th volume's subscription — distributes the trade: the 393.90 euros.

The digital strategy follows the specialist logic: the print monthly for the leadership's depth — the policy, the management — the shop and the PDFs for the single-article access — the research. As the hospital trade journal — the DKG's organ (the 118th volume), published by Kohlhammer — das Krankenhaus remains the leadership's source: the first-hand information — monthly in print, daily on das-krankenhaus.de.