Kardinal Schwarzenberg Klinikum

Name

Kardinal Schwarzenberg Klinikum

Legal name

Kardinal Schwarzenberg Klinikum GmbH

Website

https://ks-klinikum.at

Company type

Private

Founded year

1844

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Schwarzach Im Pongau

HQ country

Austria

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Public Healthcare Reimbursement (GKK/ÖGK): The hospital operates as a publicly funded acute care facility within Austria's public health insurance system. Revenue is generated through reimbursement contracts with the Austrian Health Insurance Fund (Österreichische Gesundheitskasse - ÖGK) and other social insurance carriers for inpatient, outpatient, and emergency medical services rendered to insured patients. This is the primary revenue mechanism for the hospital.
2. Private Patient Services: Revenue from services provided to self-paying patients not covered by public insurance, as well as upgraded accommodation options and amenity services. Secondary revenue stream alongside public reimbursement.
3. Parking Fees: Visitor and patient parking fees charged at the hospital's parking facility, ranging from €0 for 0-10 minutes up to a maximum daily rate of €11.00.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Kardinal Schwarzenberg Klinikum operates as a multi-specialty acute care hospital providing inpatient, outpatient, day clinical, and 24/7 emergency medical services across 15 departments and over 50 specialist outpatient clinics. Its service portfolio spans surgery, internal medicine (cardiology, nephrology/dialysis, angiology), neurology with a stroke unit, obstetrics (second-largest birth center in Salzburg), pediatrics, orthopedics, ENT, nuclear medicine, psychiatry, radiology with interventional procedures, and oncology day care. The hospital supplements clinical care with on-site nursing education (Kardinal Schwarzenberg Akademie), a student dormitory, and company childcare.

Product overview

Kardinal Schwarzenberg Klinikum operates as a secondary care hospital providing comprehensive inpatient, outpatient, and day clinic medical services. The facility encompasses 15 departments and over 50 specialized outpatient clinics across medical, surgical, and diagnostic disciplines. Core medical services include emergency medicine (trauma, internal medicine, pediatric), internal medicine subspecialties (cardiology with heart catheterization, nephrology/dialysis with 8 stations, vascular medicine), diagnostic imaging (radiology with CT, MRI, mammography, and interventional services), surgical services (general/vascular, orthopedic, ENT), stroke care, nuclear medicine, and obstetrics. The hospital supplements clinical care with patient support services including a prenatal lactation clinic, sleep laboratory, and pastoral care. Educational infrastructure includes the on-campus Kardinal Schwarzenberg Academy for nursing education and a 121-room student dormitory. The facility serves approximately 200,000 residents of Salzburg's Pongau, Pinzgau, and Lungau regions plus 200,000+ annual tourists, recording over 211,000 patient contacts in 2025.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hospital Medical Services (Inpatient, Outpatient, Day Clinic)
• 24/7 Emergency Medical Services
• Interdisciplinary Day Clinic (Operative, Oncological, Psychiatric)
• Internal Medicine I (Cardiology, Nephrology, Angiology)
• Cardiology and Heart Catheter Services
• Dialysis Services
• Radiology and Interventional Radiology Services
• Interventional Vascular Center (IGZ)
• Stroke Unit
• Sleep Laboratory
• Obstetrics and Birth Center
• Prenatal Lactation Clinic (Präpartale Stillambulanz)
• General, Visceral and Vascular Surgical Services
• Nuclear Medicine and Endocrinology
• Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery
• Student Dormitory (Studentenheim)
• Kardinal Schwarzenberg Akademie (Nursing Education)
• Visitor Parking Services
• Vinzenz Café

Quantifiable outcome

• 211,000+ patient contacts treated in 2025, including over 25,000 inpatients
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• FC Red Bull SalzburgminorOthers · 1 January 2025Professional football players from FC Red Bull Salzburg visited the hospital's children's ward (Kinderspital) in December 2025, bringing holiday cheer to young patients. This represents a community engagement/partnership activity rather than a formal commercial relationship.
• Salzburger HilfswerkcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018The hospital cooperates with Salzburger Hilfswerk to operate two toddler groups (Kleinkindgruppen) for children up to age 3 in the premises of the adjacent Kardinal Schwarzenberg Akademie. The childcare facility, expanded in 2020 due to high demand, provides year-round care Monday through Friday 06:30-19:30 and accepts children whose parents do not work at the hospital as well as staff children.
• Salzburg AGOthersSalzburg AG operates a public E-charging station (2 parking spaces) adjacent to the hospital's visitor parking lot, enabling electric vehicle charging for patients, visitors, and staff. Information on charging and billing is available through Salzburg AG's website.
• NEXT LAYER Telekommunikationsdienstleistungs- und Beratungs GmbHcoreTechnology or IntegrationNEXT LAYER provides data hosting and processing services for the hospital's applicant tracking system (Bewerbermanagement). Job application data is stored and processed on servers managed by NEXT LAYER at Mariahilfer Gürtel 37/7, 1150 Wien.
• Social Ministry Service Austria - Upper Austria Regional OfficeOthersAs required by the Barrierefreiheitsgesetz, the Social Ministry Service (Sozialministeriumservice) of Upper Austria serves as the complaint authority for accessibility issues. Patients/citizens can escalate accessibility complaints to Gruberstraße 63, 4021 Linz if the hospital does not adequately address their concerns.
• Barmherzige Schwestern (Sisters of Mercy)OthersThe hospital maintains a connection to the Barmherzige Schwestern (Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy) in Graz (bhsgraz.at), which historically founded and sponsored Catholic healthcare institutions in the region. The hospital's name derives from Cardinal Schwarzenberg, and the institution's heritage is tied to Catholic healthcare traditions.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Vinzenz Gruppe (Krankenhaus Göttlicher Heiland, Hartmannspital): Catholic hospital group operating multi-specialty acute care hospitals in Vienna. Comparable as a faith-sponsored (VinziWerkt) Austrian private hospital group operating within the public reimbursement system, providing a benchmark for Catholic-affiliated multi-site hospital organization models.
• Helios Kliniken GmbH: Germany's largest private hospital operator (part of Fresenius), running a broad network of acute care hospitals. While operating under the German rather than Austrian system, it is the established large-scale operator in DACH regional acute care and represents the most relevant incumbent comparison for multi-site scaling, procurement, and service-line management.
• Salzburger Landeskliniken (SALK): The state-owned hospital operator running Salzburg's tertiary referral hospitals (LKH Salzburg, Christian-Doppler-Klinik, etc.). SALK is the natural referral destination for Kardinal Schwarzenberg Klinikum's complex cases and the closest comparable acute care operator in the same state. Both operate publicly funded multi-specialty acute care in Austria's public system.
• Asklepios Kliniken: One of Germany's largest private hospital groups operating broad multi-specialty acute care. Comparable as a DACH-region scaled operator in publicly reimbursed regional acute care, useful as a benchmark for what scaled regional hospital ownership looks like, though materially larger and more diversified than Kardinal Schwarzenberg Klinikum.

Direct peers

• Ordensklinikum Linz: Major Austrian Catholic-affiliated hospital (sponsored by Barmherzige Schwestern and Barmherzige Brüder) operating a comparable multi-specialty acute care model in Upper Austria. Same faith-based ownership heritage, similar scale, similar mix of publicly reimbursed inpatient/outpatient services, and similar workforce-academy integration.
• Krankenhaus St. Josef Braunau: Catholic-affiliated regional hospital in Upper Austria (Sisters of Mercy order). Comparable as a faith-sponsored mid-sized Austrian acute care hospital operating within the public reimbursement system with similar breadth of services and regional catchment profile.
• Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder Österreich: Catholic-affiliated hospital group operating multi-specialty acute care hospitals across Austria (Vienna, Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Eisenstadt, St. Veit). Closest private non-profit comparable to Kardinal Schwarzenberg Klinikum's faith-based heritage (Barmherzige Schwestern sponsorship) and multi-specialty acute care model within the Austrian public reimbursement system.
• Tauernklinikum: Regional hospital group operating sites in Zell am See and Mittersill, directly adjacent to Kardinal Schwarzenberg's catchment in Salzburg's Pinzgau and Pongau districts. Competes for the same regional resident and tourist patient pool in the Innergebirg Alpine region with comparable multi-specialty acute care offerings.

Regional players

• Landeskrankenhaus Feldkirch: Regional state hospital in Vorarlberg, Austria, operated by KHBG (Krankenhausbetriebsgesellschaft). Comparable as a publicly funded multi-specialty regional hospital serving a discrete Alpine catchment population, with similar referral patterns to tertiary centers. Regional peer rather than direct competitor due to geography.
• Klinikum Bad Salzungen: German regional acute care hospital in Thuringia where the new Kardinal Schwarzenberg radiology Primar (Dr. Armand Daliri) previously led Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology for nearly 10 years. Comparable as a regional public-sector multi-specialty hospital in a rural area, and operationally linked through senior leadership transition.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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