| Significant changes have occurred in the organization of the Hospital District in recent years.
Organization map
At the beginning of 2008, all IT functions and personnel in the Hospital District were transferred to a new company named Medbit Oy. The administrative personnel of the Hospital District and of its hospitals were transferred to the new Administrative Centre. Moreover, catering services for the Hospital District were consolidated by merging the catering services of the regional hospitals to Turku University Hospital catering services.
New organization levels were introduced at the beginning of 2009: the medical services public utility TYKS-Sapa, regional specialist medical care, and Maintenance Services and Technical Services serving the entire Hospital District.
Regional specialist medical care includes the Loimaa and Salo Regional Hospitals, Turunmaa Hospital and Vakka-Suomi Hospital. Their operations are coordinated by a Division Director, but hospitals still each have their own Medical Director and Leading Director of Nursing. They also each have their own Board of Directors except for Vakka-Suomi Hospital, for which a steering group has been appointed.
Several municipalities were merged at the beginning of 2009, as a result of which the number of member municipalities of the Hospital District of Southwest Finland decreased from 55 to 29. At the same time, the membership of the Council, the highest decision-making body of the Intermunicipal Hospital District, decreased from 105 to 75.
Turku University Hospital is preparing for a substantial reorganisation based on the lines of treatment to be introduced at T Hospital. The current divisions, profit centres and clinics will be dismantled. The new organization is intended to be introduced as of 1 January 2013.
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