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Baden Cantonal Hospital

The Agness Hospital in Baden's old town was demolished in 1863. In 1888, the city council decided to expand the infirmary into a hospital (patients with infectious diseases were accommodated in the bailiff's castle). The hospital soon no longer met the growing needs. For this reason, the community decided in 1909 to build a new city hospital on Wettingerstrasse. The electrical engineering group Brown, Boveri & Cie. assumed one sixth of the construction costs. The two-story building opened on August 1, 1912.

Over time, the Baden City Hospital took on more and more tasks. It was unable to keep up with the rapid population growth from the 1950s onwards and increasingly had to struggle with capacity bottlenecks. With the Hospital Act of 1964, the Grand Council created the basis for the creation of a second cantonal hospital in Aargau. The plan was to build a new building in Dättwil with 580 beds in order to remedy the chronic lack of space.

After the project was resized to 400 beds, the groundbreaking ceremony took place on October 6, 1972. As a “greenfield” facility, the new cantonal hospital was a pilot operation in many respects, as the operational processes could be combined in a single building. It became operational on September 1, 1978. The old Baden city hospital had been closed a month earlier; The premises have served as a nursing home ever since.

In the 2017 financial year, 19,533 patients were treated as inpatients, an increase of 0.1 percent compared to 2016. The average length of stay was 5.9 days. The case mix index reached 0.987 and, as in the previous year, increased massively again. This is an indication that more medically demanding cases tended to be treated. Bed occupancy was 84.4 percent, which put the KSB above the Swiss average. Over 110,000 patients were registered in the outpatient sector. Financially, KSB generated operating income of 354.5 million francs in the 2017 financial year. EBITDA was 38.7 million francs and the EBITDA margin was 10.9%. This makes KSB the only hospital company that has consistently achieved the Canton of Aargau's targets (EBITDA margin of at least 10%) since the new hospital financing came into force in 2012.
With over 2,200 employees, KSB is one of the largest employers in Ostaargau. The economic benefit of operating the hospital is around 800 million francs per year.