Justus VogelLetzgus, PhilippPhilippLetzgusGeissler, AlexanderAlexanderGeisslerKlauber, JürgenGeraedts, MaxFriedrich, JörgWasem, JürgenBeivers, Andreas2023-04-132023-04-132020https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/11316410.1007/978-3-662-60487-8_18In Germany, hospital capacity planning goals are well defined. Hospital capacity planning must be demand driven and is to secure high quality care for patients treated in economically efficient hospitals. The traditional planning method that is currently used in all states in Germany can no longer meet these requirements. This planning method employs medical areas of expertise for the distinction of treatments, it uses an undifferentiated application of the Hill-Burton Formula to forecast future demand and only selectively applies quality requirements for the allocation of licenses for inpatient care. In this article, we develop a new planning method that is based on a detailed system of treatment areas structured in a medically meaningful hierarchy (treatment orientation). This system is used to assess the current care situation and to conduct a sophisticated forecast of future demand with quantitative consideration of relevant influence factors (demand orientation). Finally, a method to develop qual-ity requirements per treatment area is presented (quality orientation). The article concludes with the drafting of a planning process for this new treatment, demand and quality oriented hospital capacity planning method.debook section