Klinik Gut has survived the Covid-19 pandemic well so far. The temporary closure of the clinic in Fläsch and the postponement of already planned procedures required a great deal of flexibility from patients and teams. Nevertheless, around the same number of interventions and consultations were carried out in 2020 as in 2019. The new Chairman of the Board of Directors is Thomas Grünenfelder, who succeeds Felix Ammann, who retired due to age.
Although Klinik Gut itself is not treating COVID-19 patients, the teams at the private Graubünden Orthopedic Clinic have provided important support services to the Graubünden healthcare system during the pandemic. Klinik Gut Fläsch had to close temporarily in spring 2020 and loaned out its teams to other clinics in the region. “Our people did a very good job for pandemic patients during the pandemic,” says Thomas Grünenfelder, new Chairman of the Board of Directors of Klinik Gut AG, looking back.
“This is another reason why we can look back on this challenging financial year with great satisfaction.” For patients at Klinik Gut, the first wave of the pandemic meant the postponement of their already planned procedures and treatments. Many of them therefore suffered from additional complaints. “Starting in May, we were able to make up for what we had had to postpone,” says Dr. med. Patrick Baumann, Chief Medical Officer and new delegate of the Board of Directors. “However, thanks to the great commitment of our teams, we were able to work through the backlog of treatment over the course of the year.”
Generational change on the Board of Directors
Grisons entrepreneur Thomas Grünenfelder replaces Felix Ammann on the Board of Directors of Klinik Gut AG, who is retiring for reasons of age. The economist served on the management board of Klinik Gut AG for 17 years and has been its president since 2006. Medical Director Dr. med. Patrick Baumann will be the new delegate of the Board of Directors. He succeeds Dr. med. Adrian Urfer (69), who remains on the Board of Directors and focuses on the project for a new hospital building in St. Moritz.
“Felix Ammann has done great things for Klinik Gut. When he joined the Board of Directors, we were a trauma clinic in St. Moritz. Thanks in part to him, we are now an important medical service partner of the Bündner healthcare system with our two clinics, five practice locations and collaborations with several hospitals,” says Dr. Adrian Urfer, who founded Klinik Gut AG in 1987 with two partners who have since died. “With Thomas Grünenfelder, we were able to recruit an internationally experienced and excellently connected entrepreneur for the position of President. I would like to thank Felix Ammann for his tremendous commitment and wish Thomas Grünenfelder every success.”
Klinik Gut AG
Klinik Gut specializes in the human musculoskeletal system. Specialists for shoulders, elbows, hands, spine, hips, knees, ankles and feet as well as pain and physiotherapists treat complaints arising from illness or consequences of accidents. The sports doctors at Klinik Gut look after individual athletes and teams from Germany and abroad. The private hospital company based in Graubünden is owned by six partner doctors. It operates two clinics in St. Moritz and Fläsch, practice locations in Chur, Bad Ragaz, Buchs (SG), Zürich Airport and Ascona as well as partnerships with regional hospitals Samedan and Poschiavo and employs around 250 people.
In 2020, Klinik Gut clinics and practices carried out more than 4,500 procedures (with or without hospitalization) as well as over 20,000 consultations in office hours and outpatient treatment. More than half of the patients treated have general insurance.
Contact Klinik Gut AG
Thomas Grünenfelder, Chairman of the Board of Directors
telephone +41 79 769 00 00
email thomas@gruenenfelder.ch
Christian Gartmann has been Communications, Media Relations and Public Affairs Officer at Klinik Gut AG since 2013.