Hospitals in Uster and Wetzikon plan merger

to apply for The Board of Directors of the hospitals, Uster and Wetzikon have decided, in their bodies, the Fusion. This they announced Monday in a media release. With the merger of the health care at both locations should be secured permanently, with the creation of a non-profit Aktiengesellschaft synergies can be created. The offer of the two houses should be and on cooperation with third supplemented matched.

As the reasons for this project, the Board of Directors to call the growing demands on the efficiency and the quality of the hospital operation. Shortage of human resources would also make efficient processes and lean structures.

Spital Uster (image: zvg)

to vote in the bodies of both hospitals, the merger will be presented to the project until late in the autumn to the Public. The vote in the communities should take place simultaneously in the first Semester 2020, the merger itself might be so. according to the notice on the 1 January 2021 to be effective.

Spital Affoltern in front of the

the news of The merger of the two hospitals came about a week after the city Council of Affoltern am Albis has made its decision public, the Voting public at the ballot box from the 19th century. May 2019 the broad ' Yes ' to the resolution of the zweckverband Spital Affoltern – and at the same time a no to the two planned successor organizations.

The purpose of the Association the hospital Affoltern for all the participating municipalities to the mortgage, told the city Council in mid-February. In this form, the hospital was no longer competitive and no longer would probably have resulted from 2022 on the cantonal hospital list.

Created: 18.02.2019, 15:14 PM