verein-stiftung

SWICA Healthcare Organisation Association

The SWICA Healthcare Organisation Association is one of SWICA's owners. As the main shareholder of SWICA Holding AG, it upholds customers' interests and ensures that their needs are at the centre of all that we do. The delegates meet annually at the Assembly of Delegates, made up of 80 delegates from among the association's members, to carry out their tasks under the Articles of Association, which include electing the members of the managing committee. Election to the managing committee constitutes nomination to the Board of Directors of the SWICA group companies.

SWICA Healthcare Organisation Foundation

The SWICA Healthcare Organisation Foundation, which has its registered office in St. Gallen, is the charitable partner of the SWICA Healthcare Organisation Association and the second shareholder of SWICA Holding AG. The goal of the foundation is to promote a healthcare system that is fit for the future. To achieve this, it supports education and research projects focusing on integrated care and prevention.


The members of the Board of Trustees are:

• Dr. med. Ruth Fleisch (Chair)
• Dr. iur. Carlo Conti (Vice-Chair)
• Barbara Bolliger
• Petra Geiser
• Dr. med. Urs Stoffel

The foundation is currently funding three projects:

PROMs and PREMs @ SWICA
This project, which has already been successfully completed, has created the basis for systematically incorporating PROMs (Patient-Reported Outcome Measures) and PREMs (Patient-Reported Experience Measures) into SWICA's treatment management processes in a targeted and practical fashion, thus taking a decisive step towards participatory, quality-oriented and value-based healthcare.

Measuring volume trends
Research into how «volumes» are recorded, feeding into value-based treatment and funding concepts for hospitals.

Monitoring of cardiac insufficiency patients
Monitoring of cardiac insufficiency patients via telemedicine – pilot project in conjunction with the University Hospital Basel.