Clinique La Colline

Hirslanden Clinique La Colline is a Swiss hospital located in Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in 1903,[1] it has been part of the Hirslanden Private Hospital Group since 2014.[2][3]

Clinique La Colline

Industry	Medicine
Founded	1903 / 2014
Headquarters	Switzerland
Key people	Stéphan Studer (CEO)
Revenue	64 million CHF (2015/16)
Number of employees	281 (2015/16)
Website	Clinique La Colline

History

In 1903, a group of nuns from the Trinitarian Order of Avignon, forced to leave France as a result of religious persecution, took up residence in Geneva. Aided by local doctors, they founded a home to care for sick people of all religious beliefs. This home was Clinique La Colline, and included 15 rooms.[1] In 1904 the first operating room was installed. Geneva doctors schooled the nuns in how to provide medical care. Clinique La Colline’s success meant that it very rapidly became necessary to build an annex, in order to have more rooms, and add a second operating room. The newly-enlarged Clinique La Colline had a capacity of 40 beds. A new wing was added in 1925, and in 1950 the nuns began to be assisted and gradually replaced by laypersons. In 1974, the north wing was extended to accommodate the operating theater and the radiology department, and in 1990 an outpatient clinic, a physiotherapy department and a fourth operating room were added. With the arrival of computers in 1984, the administrative aspects of Clinique La Colline were also entrusted to laypersons.[4] In 2011, it was bought by the families Picciotto, Gherardi and Paul Hökfelt. The clinic then grew consistently with the creation of about 30 associated medical offices and an emergency department in 2012.[5] Subsequently, an extension of the clinic was inaugurated in 2013.

The Hirslanden Private Hospital Group acquired Clinique La Colline for $146 million in 2014.[6][7]

Stéphan Studer became Clinical Director of Clinique La Colline in 2015.[8]

Key figures & infrastructure

Following an extension in 2013, Clinique La Colline has 100 rooms and suites, one emergency department, six operating rooms and one polyclinic. It has 281 employees and 150 physicians[6][9][10] for 3'784 patients in 2015.[11][12]

Centres and institutes

Clinique La Colline houses over 20 consultation practices, an analysis laboratory and medical samples, an orthopedic department, a neurosurgery and back surgery department, a general surgery department as well as many other specialised centers such as an emergency department, a radiology department, a physiotherapy unit, a spa pool and a check-up department.[13][14][15][16]

Centre d'urgences, an Emergency Center, at the Clinique la Colline

Specialisations

The main specialties of Clinique La Colline are anesthesiology, angiology, cardiac and thoracic vascular surgery, cardiology, checkup, clinical emergency medicine (SGNOR), dermatology and venereology, gastroenterology, general internal medicine, general surgery and traumatology (accident surgery), geriatrics, gynaecology, hematology, hand surgery, infectology, intensive care, maxillo-facial surgery, medical analysis laboratory FAMH, medical oncology, neurology, neurosurgery, ophthalmic surgery, ophthalmology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthopaedic surgery and traumatology, otorhinolaryngology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, plastic, reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, pneumology, psychiatry and psychotherapy, radiology, rheumatology, spine surgery, sports medicine, surgery, urology, visceral surgery.[17][18]

Number of patients by medical field

Medical field	Number of inpatients in 2015 / 2016
Orthopedics / Sports medicine	2174
Gynaecology / Obstetrics	55
Surgery / Visceral surgery	488
Internal medicine	397
Urology	156
Neurosurgery	220
Otorhinolaryngology	14
Heart surgery / Thoracic surgery / Vascular surgery	43
Gastroenterology	17
Ophthalmology	129
Plastic surgery	45
Oral and maxillofacial surgery	46

ANQ

Clinique La Colline is a member of the National Association for the development of quality in hospitals and clinics (ANQ).[19]

Official Website

• Clinique La Colline

References

1. "Clinique La Colline". British Swiss Chamber of Commerce. 2016.
2. "Dopé par de bons chiffres, Hirslanden s'étend en Suisse romande". Le Matin. 2 July 2014.
3. "Company Overview of Clinique La Colline SA". Bloomberg. 11 May 2016.
4. "History". Hirslanden. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
5. "La clinique La Colline grandit et ouvre un centre d'urgences". Association des médecins du canton de Genève. 2 June 2012.
6. "Hirslanden met la main sur la clinique genevoise La Colline". Bilan. 25 June 2014. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
7. "Le sud-africain Mediclinic rachète la clinique genevoise La Colline pour 146 millions $". Agence Ecofin. 26 June 2014.
8. "Rencontre avec Stéphan Studer: au sommet de La Colline". Tribune de Genève. 22 September 2015.
9. "Hirslanden Clinique La Colline". Geneve Cliniques. 2016.
10. "Le groupe zurichois Hirslanden s'offre la clinique La Colline à Genève". RTS. 25 June 2014.
11. "Après La Colline à Genève, Hirslanden acquiert la clinique Swissana à Lucerne". Le Temps. 2 July 2014.
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13. "Hirslanden Clinique La Colline". RC Genève PLO. 2016.
14. "Hirslanden Clinique La Colline, l'expertise en toute confiance". Centre Epaule. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-06-09. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
15. "Clinique La Colline, Genève". Swiss Checkup. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-02-05.
16. "Centres and Institutes". Hirslanden. 2016.
17. "Leading orthopedics clinic in Geneva with the best treatments". Premium Switzerland. 2016.
18. "Range of treatment". Hirslanden. 2016.
19. "Hirslanden Clinique La Colline". Care Mondo. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-05-11.