Care

Patients are welcomed at 8 hospitals, 2 clinics and 40 healthcare locations spread across the canton

Intake capacityCare - 2016 key figures at HUG in Geneva

  • 1,835 beds, including 112 beds for people awaiting placement
  • 137 day hospital beds
  • 136 private beds

97% of patients satisfied

hospitalisation beds - graphic

 

Medical activitygraphic - impatient cases

Hospitalisation

  • 4’101 births (Switzerland’s leading maternity hospital)
  • 6.8 days (average length of stay in acute care)

Emergency department

  • 95,035 emergencies, i.e. 66,687 adults and 28,348 children
  • 1 emergency every 6 minutes

1'037'402 outpatient care

 

Surgical activitygraphic - breakdown of surgical operations

  • 26,583 surgical operations including 7,110 performed on an outpatient basis(one day surgery)

3'273 operations in paediatrics

Technical facilities

  • 38’133 CT examinations
  • 17’821 MRI examinations
  • 2’247 PET-CT examinations
  • 6’605’362 laboratory analyses

 

graphic - transplantsTransplants

  • 72 patients transplanted
  • 81 organs transplanted

9 cornea transplants

Last update : 20/12/2018