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Saint-Amé Your admission Please find below some useful advance information to prepare for your stay in hospital and to facilitate your admission. You can also obtain further information from the nurse in charge of admissions; please call +41 24 486 26 22 from Monday to Friday from 14:00 to 16:00. Generally, your referring doctor or a partner hospital will decide on your hospitalisation. As a rule, patients are admitted between 10:00 and 11:00. Information concerning your arrival Documents required Personal belongings Money…
Sierre Your admission You can obtain administrative information prior to your admission by calling +41 27 603 7792 from Monday to Friday between 06:30 and 20:00. Please come to the hospital reception centre (next to Accident & Emergency) at the time specified by your referring doctor or by the hospital. Generally, admissions take place between 06:30 and 10:00 and between 14:00 and 15:00. If you are required to have fasted before your admission, you must neither drink, nor eat, nor smoke, for the 6 hours preceding your…
Visp Your admission If you have any questions in advance about your upcoming hospital stay, we will be happy to help you on +41 27 604 33 33 . Your admission to the hospital will be discussed with your attending physician. As a rule, inpatient admissions tend to take place in the afternoon, outpatient admissions in the morning from 07:00. Please come to our patient reception on the first floor at the time agreed with your doctor. After your registration and various formalities, you will be picked up by the staff of the…
Brig Your admission If you have any questions in advance about your upcoming hospital stay, we will be happy to help you on +41 27 604 33 33 . Your admission to the hospital will be discussed with your attending physician. As a rule, inpatient admissions tend to take place in the afternoon, outpatient admissions in the morning from 07:00. Please come to our patient reception on the first floor at the time agreed with your doctor. After your registration and various formalities, you will be picked up by the staff of the…
Radiology Radiology is a medical speciality mainly aimed at providing support for diagnosis by means of imaging techniques. It is as varied as the devices and technologies that it uses: these range from scanners to MRI, and include, among others, ultrasound, angiography or echography. Radiology is known as a ‘support’ speciality, and caters to patients of all ages, coming from Accident & Emergency, from the various departments in the hospital, or sent by their doctor for a check-up or an outpatient intervention. In…
Intensive Care Medicine Valais Hospital has two intensive care units, one at the Sion site and the other at the Visp site. Each one is equipped according to the location as well as in respect of medical and surgical treatment. In cases of severe failure of vital organs such as the brain, the heart, the lungs, the kidneys, the intestine or the liver, patients are cared for in the intensive care department of Valais Hospital. There is a particularly high quota of highly specialised medical and nursing staff here, and the…
Infectiology Infectiology is the field of medicine which takes care of patients suffering from infectious diseases, that is to say diseases that are due to micro-organisms such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or yeasts. Infectiology is part of the Infectious Diseases Department, which includes, as well as infectiology, all the fields connected to these diseases: microbiology, infection prevention and control (or hospital hygiene or hospital epidemiology), travel medicine, HIV/AIDS testing and combating communicable diseases.…
Infectious Diseases All of the fields connected to infectious diseases, i.e. diseases caused by micro-organisms such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or yeasts, are concentrated within the Infectious Diseases Department, which is based in the Central Institute of hospitals. This department brings together different areas of activity for patients, doctors, health institutes and the state: Medical infectiology consultations are carried out by doctors who are FMH specialists in infectiology. The consultations are for outpatients…
Organ and Tissue Donation While everything is always done to save and maintain life, it is unfortunately unavoidable that some patients do not survive. The assessment of brain death must be made by a doctor who is not involved in the transplant. This usually happens within the framework of intensive care hospitalisation. Once this diagnosis has been established in accordance with very strict criteria, organ donation can be considered. In Switzerland, every individual is free to decide whether or not to be a donor and to…
Your admission Please find below some useful information which will help you prepare for your admission to the hospital. our admission will be organised in cooperation with your doctor, and you will be asked to come to the hospital admissions desk at the agreed time. Following your registration, you can go to the department concerned and introduce yourself to the healthcare staff. You will then be taken to your room. In order to help us to admit you, Valais Hospital would be grateful if you could prepare certain documents…