The lawyer and profound expert on the Austrian healthcare system has taken over the operational management of the health center in Vienna Margareten, which is tailored to the needs of the self-employed.
Edith Lachinger, 42, from Upper Austria, has extensive management experience and many years of expertise in the healthcare sector. She has been with the PremiQaMed Group for around ten years, where she has since been entrusted with various management functions in areas such as legal, compliance and HR.
"I am looking forward to the task of successfully developing the health center together with the excellent team. In addition to the range of medical services, for me this also includes further improving the quality of service tailored to the needs of the self-employed," outlines Edith Lachinger.
The health center for the self-employed offers comprehensive outpatient and digital services that are specifically geared towards the needs of the self-employed and give them access to top medical care. Edith Lachinger is now continuing the continuous expansion of the wide range of services and further digitalization together with her Managing Director colleague Tibor Klein, BSc MA.
Edith Lachinger studied law at the University of Salzburg and lives with her family in Vienna. She also contributes her knowledge of the Austrian healthcare system as a lecturer in university continuing education.
Health center for the self-employed
The health center offers comprehensive outpatient services that are specially tailored to the needs and requirements of the self-employed: Preventive medical check-ups, rapid specialist appointments in a wide range of disciplines, outpatient rehabilitation and therapy. Top medicine is complemented by attractive digital services. Everything under one roof in the shortest possible time - this is how the health center presents itself as the first point of contact for the self-employed in all health matters. Together with the Social Insurance for the Self-Employed (SVS), the health center is operated by the PremiQaMed Group in the form of a public-private partnership model (PPP). www.gesundheitszentrum-selbstaendige.at
Social insurance for the self-employed (SVS)
A healthy country needs healthy self-employed people - and someone who is committed to their social security: That is the SVS. A community of 1.3 million insured persons who are there for each other from birth to old age under the motto "Healthier together". As a health, accident and pension insurance company, the SVS covers all sectors and is organized as a nationwide, professional institution. Nine healthcare facilities with over 1,000 beds, 8,000 contract doctors, 3,000 dentists and a further 9,000 contractual partners, such as physiotherapists and speech therapists, are available to insured persons throughout Austria. The volume of expenditure amounts to 10.3 billion euros. Chairman is Peter Lehner, General Director is Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Hans Aubauer. www.svs.at
PremiQaMed Group
The PremiQaMed Group is a leading operator of private healthcare facilities in Austria and is part of UNIQA Insurance Group AG. Around 2,000 employees work for the group of companies. The group of companies includes Privatklinik Döbling, Ambulatorium Döbling and the private clinics Confraternität and Goldenes Kreuz in Vienna, Privatklinik Wehrle-Diakonissen in Salzburg and Privatklinik Graz Ragnitz. As part of private-public partnership (PPP) models with SVS, the PremiQaMed Group operates the Malcherhof Baden clinic, which specializes in rehabilitation medicine, and the health center for the self-employed in Vienna. www.premiqamed.at/de/
Queries:
Nicole Rauchlechner, MA Bakk.phil.
Marketing & Communication
PremiQaMed Holding GmbH
Heiligenstädter Straße 46-48 - 1190 Vienna, Austria
+43 664 629 57 45
nicole.rauchlechner@premiqamed.at - www.gzsvs.at
