Bern Inselspital relies on consulting expertise from Hamburg
From university hospital to university hospital
In the Bern Inselspital, one of Switzerland's most renowned university hospitals with a tradition of more than 650 years, change is underway: within the next six years the university hospital grounds are to be wholly replanned and restructured. An enormous task, as the colleagues from the University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf (UKE) can certainly attest, since here they are already in the midst of a similar process. Now the Inselspital can profit from the experiences and know-how from Hamburg since the contract for the Inselspital restructuring project was jointly awarded to UKE Consulting and Management (UCM) and Solve Consulting.
As a subsidiary of UKE, Solve Consulting Managementberatung GmbH and Hellmann Worldwide Logistics GmbH & Co. KG, UCM aims to market German university medicine worldwide. In addition to medical know-how such as the development of medical concepts for healthcare markets, advice on medical needs or hospital management, UCM can draw on enormous experience in construction planning, reorganisation and networking. This experience, gained above all in the course of the 340 million EUR construction project at the UKE, intended to merge the current 172 buildings into one, will now be made available to Inselspital.
It was this experience that enabled UCM and Solve to win the tender for this project which was open to competitive bidding throughout Europe. When the contract was awarded about a year ago, the Hamburg consortium beat renowned consulting companies. “Inselspital also wants to bundle its departments and sections—currently divided among 52 buildings, into one central building. Our task is to create a master plan that will describe the process, the requirements for the Inselspital as well as the logistical and building planning,” according to Privatdozent Dr Mathias Goyen, managing director of UCM. The project is to be implemented step by step over the next six years. The first task is the spatial planning for gastroenterology, pulmology, and cardiology.
UCM has selected specialists at its disposal for the implementation, also from UKE, who can assist the colleagues in Bern and are also competent contact partners for issues of process optimisation. “Planning, building and networking are not enough. Current processes, internal procedures and structures also have to be put to the test if such a project is to succeed in the end,” Goyen knows well from his own experience.
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13.11.2007
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