Hospital Partners has analyzed as part of a comprehensive study of the hospital landscape in Switzerland, among other things, the size distribution of hospitals in Switzerland. Switzerland has about 320 hospitals, of which about 130 university and general hospitals. Not surprisingly, the houses in Switzerland, seen on everything, on average relatively small. About 3 / 4 of the acute hospitals with fewer than 200 beds - an often an economically critical mass number is called, this is an indication of the gain of three trends:
· First, it is expected that the cost pressure is even greater among hospitals with the introduction of DRGs from the year 2012. The leveling of the fee is taken very small houses especially strong. They will be forced to improve their cost positions, and to focus its services in order to achieve certain economies of scale and process efficiency.
· Secondly, we should expect combined with point 1, that an emerging trend in previous years to consolidate and group formation, and stopping in selected cases to the closure of clinics, is. The development of hospital-lists by the individual cantons in the DRG introduction of group formation and consolidation will tend to abet, although no changes are expected landslide.
· Third, as consolidation in Switzerland is expected to take place more slowly and will remain fragmented structures for various reasons, can open up opportunities for third-party companies that help small houses to well set up. This includes outsourcing providers, which have high efficiency in non-core processes to achieve, as well as providers of specific services and management services which help small houses, in spite of very slender structures with specialized skills and capacities to use.
