medbo

What medbo does

medbo (Medizinische Einrichtungen des Bezirks Oberpfalz – KU) is a public-law healthcare corporation owned by the Bezirk Oberpfalz district government and headquartered in Regensburg, Germany. It operates the dominant regional network for psychiatric, psychotherapeutic, neurological, neuroradiological, forensic-psychiatric, and neurological rehabilitation services across the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria, delivered through eight facilities anchored by the Bezirksklinikum Regensburg (a university teaching hospital) and the Bezirksklinikum Wöllershof. Approximately 4,000 employees from 60 nations staff a full care continuum that spans 24/7 emergency intake, inpatient and day-clinic treatment, psychiatric institute outpatient clinics (PIA), child and adolescent psychiatry, addiction medicine, gerontopsychiatry, neurorehabilitation, and post-acute aftercare including psychiatric and neurological nursing homes and assisted-living arrangements.

The organization supplements clinical operations with a vertically integrated education platform — the medbo Pflegeschulen (nursing schools, 100-year history), the Institut für Bildung und Personalentwicklung, the IfQM quality-management institute, and a premium elective-services ward (Wahlleistungsstation medbo komfort+) at Wöllershof that targets self-pay patients with burnout, addiction, and sleep disorders. Research collaborations with the University of Regensburg and the Hochschule Döpfer (B.Sc. Nursing with psychiatric focus) are formalized via multi-party alliances.

medbo is funded through the German statutory (GKV) and private (PKV) health insurance systems under DRG tariffs, district subsidies from Bezirk Oberpfalz, and public-sector collective agreements (TVöD/TV-L/TV-Ärzte), with no equity funding rounds or M&A activity disclosed. Distribution is direct-to-patient through its facility network, MVZs, emergency services, and institutional referrals; patient acquisition channels include a comprehensive website, broad social-media presence, professional conference and career-fair marketing, and academic partnerships. Recent operational modernization includes deployment of the VITAS AI telephone assistant (third-party NLP/speech-to-text) for patient intake and the Eye-Able accessibility suite with Azure-hosted simple-language translation, marking its first AI-assisted front-office workflows.

Name

medbo

Legal name

Medizinische Einrichtungen des Bezirks Oberpfalz – KU (Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts)

Website

https://medbo.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

medbo is a publicly owned (Bezirk Oberpfalz) regional healthcare corporation in Bavaria operating 8 facilities and ~4,000 staff to deliver the full continuum of psychiatric, neurological, forensic, rehabilitation, and aftercare services — plus nursing education — to patients across the Oberpfalz region under statutory German health-insurance funding.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Psychiatric and Neurological Healthcare Services

NAICS

Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals (622210), General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (62211), Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) (6231), Offices of Physicians, Mental Health Specialists (621112)

SIC

Services-Hospitals (8060), Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, Nec (8062), Services-Skilled Nursing Care Facilities (8051), Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050)

akta.pro primary industry

Medication Reconciliation & Skilled Medication Administration (Clinical) (HSABACAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

In-Home Medication Administration (Nurse-Delivered) (HSABALAF)

Keywords

• Psychiatric care services
• Neurological rehabilitation
• Child adolescent psychiatry
• Forensic psychiatry
• Healthcare workforce training

Headquarters

HQ city

Regensburg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Healthcare Services: As a public healthcare provider (Kommunalunternehmen/Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts), medbo is funded through the German public health insurance system (GKV/PKV), government subsidies, and service fees for medical treatment

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

medbo is a publicly owned regional healthcare provider delivering inpatient and outpatient psychiatric, psychotherapeutic, neurological, child and adolescent psychiatric, forensic psychiatric, and neuroradiological services across eight facilities in the Oberpfalz region of Germany. Beyond clinical care, it operates a nursing school, a prevention center, an institute for quality management in healthcare, and aftercare and residential care services for long-term patient support.

Product overview

medbo (Medizinische Einrichtungen des Bezirks Oberpfalz) is a public-law healthcare corporation providing comprehensive psychiatric, neurological, and rehabilitative medical services across the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria, Germany. The organization operates a unified healthcare platform with multiple facilities including two main psychiatric hospitals (Bezirksklinikum Regensburg and Bezirksklinikum Wöllershof), specialized clinics for child and adolescent psychiatry, neurology with rehabilitation, and forensic psychiatry, complemented by care homes, medical care centers (MVZ), and nursing schools. Services include emergency/crisis services, inpatient care, outpatient clinics, day clinics, psychiatric institute ambulances, and aftercare facilities. The organization also provides educational services through its nursing schools offering vocational training and continuing education, and premium comfort services through its Wahlleistungsstation private ward. The portfolio covers the entire care continuum from prevention through acute treatment to rehabilitation and long-term care.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• medbo komfort+: Premium inpatient services (Wahlleistungsstation) at Wöllershof offering hotel-style accommodation for psychiatric care including treatment for burnout, addiction, and sleep disorders
• medbo vision
• medbo audio
• medbo print
• PIA*rt*
• Café zweitesLEBEN
• Café Lebenshilfe Wöllershof
• medborante
• Psychiatriemuseum

Products and services

• Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Clinics Inpatient and outpatient psychiatric and psychotherapeutic diagnosis and treatment for adults with mental health conditions across the Oberpfalz region.
• Neurology and Neurological Rehabilitation Specialized inpatient and outpatient neurological care and rehabilitation services for patients with neurological illnesses, injuries, or post-acute recovery needs.
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (KJP) Specialized psychiatric and psychotherapeutic services for children and adolescents with mental health conditions, delivered through inpatient and outpatient programs.
• Forensic Psychiatry Forensic psychiatric evaluation, treatment, and secure accommodation for patients referred through judicial or court-ordered processes.
• Neuroradiology Institute Specialized neuroradiological imaging and diagnostic services supporting neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatric care.
• Medical Care Centers (Medizinische Versorgungszentren, MVZ) Ambulatory specialist medical care centers delivering outpatient psychiatric, neurological, and related services to patients in the Oberpfalz region.
• Aftercare and Residential Care Facilities (Heimnachbetreuung) Long-term residential aftercare and supported living facilities for patients transitioning out of inpatient psychiatric or neurological care.
• Emergency and Crisis Services 24/7 emergency psychiatric and crisis intervention services, including a crisis hotline, for patients in acute mental health emergencies across the Oberpfalz region.
• medbo Nursing Schools (Pflegeschulen) Accredited nursing education programs providing professional training and qualifications for prospective nurses, supported by university partnerships.
• medbo Prevention Center Oberpfalz Prevention and early-intervention services focused on mental health promotion and psychiatric illness prevention across the Oberpfalz region.
• Institute for Quality Management in Healthcare (IfQM) Institute dedicated to quality management and improvement of healthcare services within medbo's clinical operations.
• Elective Services and Private Ward (Wahlleistungen) Optional elective medical services and private-ward accommodations available to patients in addition to standard statutory-insurance-covered care.

Named customers2 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability4 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Universität Regensburg (University of Regensburg)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for psychiatric and neurological research and education. The University of Regensburg and medbo collaborate on clinical research, with medbo's facilities serving as teaching hospitals for medical students and researchers.
• Hochschule DöpfercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for academic nursing education, offering the B.Sc. Nursing with focus on psychiatric care. Joint events including academic psychiatric nursing symposium.
• TH Ingolstadt (Technical University of Ingolstadt)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for nursing education and professional development

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Helios Kliniken: Germany's largest private hospital operator (Fresenius subsidiary) with nationwide inpatient, psychiatric, and neurological capacity. Competes for the same patient pool and clinical labor, but is a for-profit incumbent with a much broader acute-care portfolio and no regional public-monopoly positioning.
• Asklepios Kliniken: Major private German hospital group operating acute, psychiatric, and neurological hospitals across multiple states. Directly competes with medbo for physicians, nurses, and in some cases patients in northern/central Germany; broader portfolio but for-profit private ownership contrasts with medbo's public-law model.
• Schoen Klinik: Private hospital group with strong focus on psychosomatic, psychiatric, and neurological/orthopedic rehabilitation in Germany. Comparable in rehabilitation and psychosomatic depth; different in private ownership and broader geographic footprint.

Direct peers

• Bezirkskliniken Mittelfranken: Public psychiatric and neurological hospital network in Middle Franconia operated by Bezirk Mittelfranken. Directly comparable to medbo in governance structure, service portfolio (psychiatry, neurology, forensic, child/adolescent), and Bavarian public-hospital reimbursement model.
• Vivantes Netzwerk für Gesundheit: Berlin-owned municipal hospital network (landes-eigengesellschaft) providing acute, psychiatric, and neurological care to a defined regional population. Same public-sector governance model as medbo, similar full-service psychiatric portfolio, different geography (Berlin vs. Bavaria).
• Vitos GmbH: Public-law hospital company owned by multiple Hessian districts providing psychiatry, psychotherapy, neurology, and forensic services. Comparable to medbo in district-owned governance, psychiatric focus, and integration of inpatient/outpatient/aftercare services in Germany.
• LVR-Kliniken (Landschaftsverband Rheinland): Network of psychiatric and neurological clinics operated by the Rhineland regional authority (Landschaftsverband). Provides similar public-sector psychiatric, neurological, and forensic services to medbo but at significantly larger geographic scale across the Rhineland.
• kbo — Kliniken des Bezirks Oberbayern: Public-law hospital group (Kommunalunternehmen) operated by Bezirk Oberbayern providing psychiatric, neurological, and psychosomatic care across multiple sites in Upper Bavaria. Closest structural analog to medbo: same Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts status, district ownership, full psychiatric continuum, and academic teaching affiliations.

Regional players

• Universitätsklinikum Regensburg: Academic teaching hospital of the University of Regensburg and medbo's academic partner. Co-located in Regensburg and shares clinical research/teaching infrastructure; differs by being a general university hospital rather than a specialized psychiatric/neurological network.
• Bezirkskrankenhaus Augsburg: Bavarian district hospital for psychiatry, psychotherapy, and neurology in the Augsburg/Swabia region. Comparable service mix to medbo (acute psychiatry, gerontopsychiatry, addiction, child/adolescent) under the same Bavarian Bezirk framework, but operates in a non-overlapping catchment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCoI-9nqsVRSygUqh-6W7SWA
• Facebookfacebook.com/medboKU
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bezirksklinikum-regensburg-medbo-gmbh-
• Instagraminstagram.com/medbo_ku

Compliance7 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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