The state capital of Stuttgart is the owner of the non-profit municipal institution under public law Klinikum Stuttgart. The Hospitals Department represents the interests of the state capital in connection with Klinikum Stuttgart. It also supports and advises the Department of Economics, Finance and Investments in all matters relating to the hospital and health care system.

Essential central subject areas are:

• Legal mandates to provide hospital services
• Responsibilities of the hospital operator in connection with medium- and long-term planning
• Representation of the interests of the owners in the planning, financing and implementation of major investments
• Monitoring of major construction projects
• Establishment and agreement of contractual framework regulations, e.g., to ensure the provision of emergency hospital services
• Preparation of structural decisions for the decision-making bodies
• Fundamental matters relating to legal form, corporate constitution and rules of procedure
• Tasks within the scope of investment management
• Work on supra-local committees with regard to hospital and health policy issues
• Coordination with the state and other hospital operators in Stuttgart and the region on the provision of hospital services to the population