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5 Partial move to UHZ Airport/“The Circle” and relocation of laboratories to Schlieren “WAGI site”
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Partial move to UHZ Airport/“The Circle” and relocation of laboratories to Schlieren “WAGI site”
a. Relocation to out-patient setting to UHZ Airport/
Partial move/relocation to the airport – “The Circle”
After more than six years of planning and about 18 months of detailed preparatory work, the dermatology clinic of the UHZ has moved with most of its outpatient department to the largest free-standing outpatient clinic in Europe – the UHZ Airport – in the building complex “The Circle”. As the largest department at the UHZ Airport, the dermatology clinic moved to an entire floor on the top floor of the building complex. The areas – laser, light and X-ray therapy, the outpatient clinic, dermatooncology, research including the day clinic and allergology – are now spread over area of over 3000 m2. In preparation for the move, operations were interrupted for the affected areas for four days. In the weeks prior to the start of operations, 25 walk-throughs took place, during which the clinic’s employees were able to get to know the premises and conditions. A moving company assisted the clinic with the move, transferring over 450 moving boxes and 98 pieces of medical equipment. After a test operating day and a gradual increase in clinic operations over a period of three weeks, up to more than 300 dermatological patients per day have been treated again since the end of November 2020.
As the old Dermatology building at Gloriastrasse 31 is the first to be demolished in order to build the new UHZ, the laboratories of our department also had to find a new location, which was found at Wagi-Strasse in Schlieren. All our laboratories, the routine diagnostics and the research labs, will move into the brand-new WAGI18 tower (see photo) in spring 2021.
The Wagi site has become a research and laboratory area where several new buildings have been built in the last few years, among them three such towers. The UHZ will rent labs in several of these buildings. The dermatology labs will be located on the first two floors in WAGI18. Our new labs will be fully equipped and enable state-ofthe-art diagnostics and research. The routine diagnostics with dermatopathology, allergology, mycology and serology and the biobank team with a total of approximately 30 employees will occupy the ground floor, while the various research groups with a total of almost 50 scientists will be placed on the first floor.
