Helios clinic in Breisach to close, affecting 232 jobs

The private Helios clinic (Fresenius Group) is closing on 30 June 2026, with the emergency department already on 31 December 2025. Reason: below-average occupancy (avg. 51 of 123 beds), a lack of a successor chief physician for internal medicine, and new legal requirements from the hospital reform. 232 employees are affected; Helios offers transfers to other sites (Titisee-Neustadt, Müllheim). The city and district want to buy the building for a medical care center (MVZ) with surgery/orthopedics. The citizens' initiative 'Rettet unser Krankenhaus' is protesting against the closure. Update (08.04.2026): The full closure on 30.06.2026 has been averted – the town of Breisach is taking over the hospital from 01.07.2026, becoming its owner again for the first time since 1972 (gesundheitsmarkt.de, 16.04.2026, citing Badische Zeitung of 08.04.2026).