Press release No. 283 of 16 August 2016
WIESBADEN – In 2015, 19.2 million people received in-patient treatment in hospitals. These were 34,800 treatment cases more (+0.2%) than a year earlier. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that, as in the previous year, the average length of stay in hospital was 7.4 days.
In 1,953 hospitals in Germany, a total of 498,000 beds were available for in-patient treatment. This was a decline in the number of beds of 2,700 compared with a year earlier.