St. Josef Hospital

What St. Josef Hospital does

AMEOS Klinikum St. Josef Oberhausen, operating under the trade name St. Josef Hospital, is a psychiatric hospital located in Oberhausen, Germany, in the Ruhr region. It is a wholly-owned facility of AMEOS Gruppe, a privately-held Swiss-headquartered healthcare provider group (legal domicile Zurich, Bahnhofplatz 14) that operates more than 60 facilities across Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and the Netherlands. Within the Oberhausen cluster, St. Josef is positioned alongside a complementary set of AMEOS facilities — Klinikum St. Clemens (somatic hospital), Reha Zentrum Oberhausen (rehabilitation), and three Pflege Zentrum nursing homes (St. Clemens, Josefinum, Bischof-Ketteler) — making the site a vertically integrated regional care node spanning psychiatry, physical health, rehab, and elderly care.

The facility delivers psychiatric and mental health services across three care modalities: inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, and psychiatric day clinic care. Its service scope includes general psychiatry, psychotherapy, and addiction-related treatment. Patients access the hospital via physician referrals, emergency admissions, and scheduled outpatient appointments. The underlying technology stack, proprietary platforms, and digital infrastructure are not disclosed in the source material; the facility appears to operate as a conventional bricks-and-mortar psychiatric provider with institutional web presence but no documented apps, APIs, or AI-enabled systems.

The business model is reimbursement-driven. As a hospital in Germany, St. Josef is funded primarily through the statutory health insurance system (gesetzliche Krankenversicherung) and secondary private health insurance, with billing handled via standard hospital/psychiatric reimbursement frameworks. No direct pricing, consumer-facing fee schedule, or contract-level economics are publicly disclosed. The go-to-market is institutional — referrals from physicians, emergency departments, and self-presenting patients in the Oberhausen/Ruhr catchment — rather than commercial or consumer-direct. The broader AMEOS Gruppe markets through its corporate and regional facility websites, and the company maintains an active career portal (karriere.ameos.eu), reflecting reliance on healthcare workforce recruitment as a growth lever.

Name

St. Josef Hospital

Legal name

AMEOS Gruppe

Website

https://kk-ob.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

AMEOS Klinikum St. Josef Oberhausen is a psychiatric hospital in the Ruhr region of Germany, providing inpatient, outpatient, and day-clinic mental health services as a wholly-owned facility of the AMEOS Gruppe, a private Swiss-headquartered healthcare operator with over 60 facilities across DACH and the Netherlands.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Psychiatric Hospital Services

NAICS

Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals (6222), Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (621420)

SIC

Services-Hospitals (8060), Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro primary industry

Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitals (HLAFAHAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitals & Units (HLAFACAB)

Keywords

• Psychiatric hospital services
• Mental health treatment
• Inpatient psychiatric care
• Addiction medicine
• Psychosomatic treatment

Headquarters

HQ city

Zürich

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

St. Josef Hospital (AMEOS Klinikum St. Josef Oberhausen) is a psychiatric hospital providing inpatient and outpatient mental health, psychosomatic, and addiction medicine services to patients in the Oberhausen region of Germany. It operates as part of the AMEOS Gruppe, a private healthcare group running more than 60 facilities across Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and the Netherlands. Care is delivered through hospital beds, day clinics, and outpatient psychiatric services reimbursed primarily via statutory and private health insurance.

Product overview

AMEOS Klinikum St. Josef Oberhausen is a psychiatric hospital facility operated by the AMEOS Gruppe, a healthcare provider network with over 60 locations across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The facility offers mental health services including inpatient psychiatric care, outpatient treatment, and psychiatric day clinics. It operates as part of a broader regional healthcare network that includes other hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and care facilities in the Oberhausen region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Inpatient Psychiatric Care
• Outpatient Psychiatric Treatment
• Psychiatric Day Clinic
• Addiction Medicine Treatment
• Psychosomatic Medicine

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Helios Kliniken (Fresenius): Largest private hospital operator in Germany and Europe, owned by Fresenius; broader portfolio but overlaps on inpatient psych (via Helios Psych) and general hospital services, making it the closest incumbent reference.

Regional players

• Vivantes Netzwerk für Gesundheit GmbH: Berlin-based hospital group with inpatient and psychiatric services; comparable as a publicly-affiliated large multi-site DACH operator with psych lines, though regionally distinct.
• Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich (PUK): Switzerland's leading academic psychiatric hospital network; comparable as a Swiss psychiatric care operator serving the same domestic market as AMEOS Spital Einsiedeln and AMEOS Seeklinikum Brunnen.
• LWL-Kliniken (Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe): Public psychiatric hospital network operating across Westphalia-Lippe in NRW; directly comparable as a multi-site psych inpatient operator in the same broader region as Oberhausen.
• LVR-Kliniken (Landschaftsverband Rheinland): Public-sector operator of psychiatric hospitals across the Rhineland (North Rhine-Westphalia); relevant as a regional psych-only peer competing for the same catchment as St. Josef Oberhausen.

Direct peers

• Schoen Klinik: Privately owned German hospital group focused on specialty and psychosomatic inpatient care, including psychiatric/psychosomatic programs; comparable as a specialty-led multi-site operator in the DACH region.
• Asklepios Kliniken GmbH: One of Germany's largest private hospital operators with significant psychiatric inpatient capacity and ambulatory services; directly comparable as a multi-site DACH hospital group with both somatic and mental health lines.
• Sana Kliniken AG: Private German hospital group operating across acute care, rehab and psychiatric services with a similar multi-site model and public-payer billing; comparable in scale and care-mix breadth to AMEOS.
• SRH Kliniken: Private German hospital and rehab operator with multiple sites and a mix of acute, psychiatric, and rehab services; relevant DACH peer with overlapping inpatient psych delivery.

Emerging players

• Median Kliniken: Germany's largest private rehabilitation operator with some psychosomatic lines; relevant for the rehab side of AMEOS (e.g., AMEOS Reha Zentrum Oberhausen) and the psych-rehab continuum.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/st-josef-hospital

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Number of profiles

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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