FM in Healthcare
Facility Management in Healthcare: highly complex and highly stimulating.
Our research focal point “FM in Healthcare” focuses on stakeholder-centric management of non-medical support services in healthcare organisations.
Depending on the setting, we take part as a partner in a research project, as advisors in a service contract or we include students within student projects. Our procedures are holistic, interlinked and systematic with the goal to develop practice-oriented and applicable solutions.
Our Projects
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Mobile, on-the-spot Breakfast Catering
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Chart of accounts, cost center structures and cost unit accounting for non-medical support services in hosptials (KoKoS)
Development of an encompassing chart of accounts for non-medical support services in hospitals including a corresponding cost center structure and cost unit accounting as a basis for a correct allocation of cost and thus as basis for tools for benchmarking and strategy.
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KJM – KleenlineJonmaster
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Service Allocation Model for Non-medical Support Services
LemoS illustrates the scope of Facility Management in Healthcare (FM in HC) and is based on the SN EN 15221-4 norm. The Service Allocation Model for non-medical Support Services in Hospitals (LemoS) was developed in interdisciplinary consortial collaboration with partners in business and science. As new finding ...
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Service Catalogue for Non-medical Support Services in Hospitals (LekaS)
For a long time, little attention had been given to the non-medical support services in hospitals. The importance of Facility / Infrastructure Management became clear after the introduction of SwissDRG and the resulting sensitivity to effectiveness and cost. Especially when taking a more exact, holistic approach to ...
Our publications
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Merkle, Thorsten; Plüss, Till,
2024.
Organisationsformen des Facility Management in Schweizer Akutspitälern.
Wädenswil:
ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29640
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Diez, Karin; Rothe, Frank,
2023.
In:
13. Fachkonferenz – Das Spital der Zukunft, Blezinger Healthcare, Luzern, Schweiz, 19.-21. Oktober 2023.
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Merkle, Thorsten; Wrase, Isabelle,
2023.
Digitizing healthcare patient nutrition intake in Swiss hospitals [paper].
In:
Annual International CHRIE Summer Conference, Phoenix, USA, 19-21 July 2023.
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Gerber, Nicole; Merkle, Thorsten,
2023.
Individualisierte Verpflegung – ein Megatrend.
In:
8. Fachkonferenz – Das Pflegeheim der Zukunft, Blezinger Healthcare, Luzern, Schweiz, 22.-23. Juni 2023.
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Schmitter, Paul; Gatziu Grivas, Stella,
2023.
Die Messung des digitalen Reifegrads.
Clinicum.
2023(3), pp. 58-59.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28509
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