Rechtliche Steuerung der Qualität in der stationären Pflege

In the competition between operators of residential care homes, the quality of care is a special parameter. Religious organizations, such as Caritas and Diakonie, promise a special, individual quality of care. Following on from this, the study examines the extent to which the law of external quality control in inpatient care leaves the design of care quality to the home operators and allows the competition between home operators to be based on the parameter of quality. The study shows that the control instruments of the social care insurance law and the institutional care law are not always compatible and sometimes even contradict each other, and discusses questions about the constitutional legitimacy of the regulatory arrangement.