FM in Healthcare
Facility Management in Healthcare: highly complex and highly stimulating.
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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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Offices, Change & Health
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Development of an IT supported assessment tool and a corresponding introduction manual for the relevant Facility Management process applications in hospitals on the basis of an adaptive reference model
The introduction of the diagnosis-related groups/Swiss DRG causes amongst other things a greater demand for transparency, including in non-medical support services [FM] in hospitals. In order to meet this, it is necessary to have a systematic way of measuring and comparing services in order to come up with specific ...
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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
Our publications
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Merkle, Thorsten; Knaus, Dominik; Siegrist, Chantal,
2024.
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In:
Sigala, Marianna; Fang, Marcela; Yeark, Anastasia; Albrecht, Julia N.; Vorobjovas-Pinta, Oscar, eds.,
Case Based Research in Tourism, Travel, and Hospitality.
Singapore:
Springer.
pp. 179-192.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1891-7_10
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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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