St. Josef Hospital in Braunau
(Austria)
Grander Technology in hospitals 
Some eight years ago St Joseph’s Hospital in Braunau, near the Austrian-German border, had water probems. Excessive germ contamination in the water-supply system caused the technical manager of the hospital, Wolfgang Plunger, to incorporate a water revitaliser into the central drinking-water plant. He tells about his experience: “We use our own well for our water supply. This well contains very good water, which can, however, develop a special, rather unpleasant odour. Owing to our widely branched supply network and the warm conditions here in the hospital we always had to fight against germ contamination due to water stagnation.” “We had to add chlorine, which in turn led to a change in taste and a bad odour. Both patients and staff found this very annoying.”
The hospital management trusted in their technical manager’s judgement and decided to install the Grander Technology. Since then, all the drinking water of St Joseph’s hospital in Braunau has been passing through the Grander water revitaliser before entering into the system. The central chlorine-addition plants, which had been mechanically controlled by measuring probes, were removed and have been out of service since then.
“This was an argument that convinced the management as well. Up to then we had to spend about 4000 to 6000 Euros annually on chemicals. The water revitaliser paid for itself within a very short time period. On top of that the chlorine quantity in the hospital indoor swimming-pool was also considerably reduced. The savings in running costs are about 50 percent,” Wolfgang Plunger enthusiastically states.
“Since the water quality is within our own responsibility, we are obliged to carry out an annual extensive bacteriological check. Amongst other things, the germ rate is monitored. This means we must prove that our water is drinkable. The results have always been perfect. The same is true of the additional internal tests, which analyse the germ contamination due to stagnation.”
Press article in "clinic management" magazine | 