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Rehabilitation Rehabilitation involves restoring the patient to a good physical condition, as well as enabling him/her to recover his/her capacity to be independent. Rehabilitation medicine involves the medico-social, medico-surgical, psychosomatic and pedagogical fields, allowing the patient to recover function as close as possible to his/her original state preceding an accident, major surgery, a disability, a handicap or a chronic disease. Rehabilitation starts as soon as any lesions appear, and only ends once the patient…
Physiotherapy Physiotherapy is a specialist practice aimed at combating pain and promoting movement and mobility. The procedures offered by physiotherapists allow us to treat and/or correct the loss or degradation of functions and mobility (disease, accident and/or poor posture) in an opportune and targeted manner. These professionals address their patients’ complaints in the most straightforward way, and identify and clarify the contextual factors related to them. They offer each patient a tailor-made solution.…
Sierre Discharge The date of your discharge will be decided on in consultation with your hospital doctor, who will send a report about your stay in the hospital to your referring doctor and, if necessary, will call him/her; you should then contact your referring doctor regarding the continuation of your treatment. Before you leave the hospital, please: Ask the nurse to ensure that you have been provided with all necessary documents (prescriptions, medical letters, x-rays, hospitalisation certificate, blood group card,…
Le Service de neurologie du Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand (CHVR) et l’Association Suisse des Infirmières et Infirmiers – Section Valais (ASI-VS) invitent la population valaisanne à une conférence publique sur le thème de l’accident vasculaire cérébral et le risque lié à la problématique de l’hypertension, le jeudi 9 mai 2019. L’accident vasculaire cérébral représente un véritable fléau mondial. Il constitue la première cause de handicap chez l’adulte et la deuxième cause de démence. Un quart des patients décède à la…
Department of Anaesthesiology of the Hospital of Sierre The Anaesthesiology Department of the Sierre Hospital is an integral part of the Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Department (SAR) of the Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand (CHVR). The senior doctors work mainly at the Sierre and Sion sites, while the junior doctors spend periods at the three sites of Sierre, Martigny and Sion. The operating block in Sierre operates 3 operating rooms on weekdays and performs around 3,000 operations per year. On nights and weekends,…
Visp Visiting times Visits Visitors are welcome to the Centre hospitalier du Haut-Valais. Visits are one of the pleasures of daily life in the hospital and contribute to patients’ well-being. In order to ensure that our patients get enough calm and rest, we have defined the following visiting times: Visits are permitted every day from 13:00 to 19:00. All departments and sectors have a daily visiting time of 13.00 - 19.00. Intermediate Care / Intensive Care Unit 13:00 to 15:00 and 16:00 to 19:00. If, for exceptional reasons,…
Pathology / Cytology The histocytopathology department examines tissue/histological samples (biopsies, resections and surgical parts, etc.) as well as cytological samples (smears, cytopunctions, body fluids, etc.) from the hospital and outpatient sectors of the French-speaking Valais, the Upper Valais and the Riviera-Chablais region, offering a complete range of services, from outpatient or inpatient diagnosis to the examination of surgical parts. The team is made up of a dozen pathologists and several doctors in training /…
Clinical chemistry Clinical chemistry is the discipline of laboratory medicine which consists of measuring the concentration of numerous molecules of interest in blood and the various biological fluids produced by the body. Based at the Central Institute, the clinical chemistry and toxicology service of Valais Hospital aims to help doctors confirm a diagnosis for the patient, compile a prognosis of the disease and its development and verify the efficiency of treatments. The analytical measures used make it possible to detect…
Memory Clinic Memory Clinic Following the appearance on the market of medicines which slow down, even if only very partially, the effects of diseases like Alzheimer’s disease, memory clinics or memory consultations have developed all over the world, including in Valais Hospital, with the aim of providing better diagnosis and more holistic care, tailored to the specific situation of the patient and of his/her next of kin. For the Valais romand region, Valais Hospital has been equipped since the end of 2011 with a…
Pneumology Department Upper Valais Hospital (SZO) At the Pneumology department of the Centre hospitalier du Haut-Valais on the Visp site, patients suffering from pneumological diseases benefit from a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services. Patients are offered outpatient consultation, treatment and care for lung diseases such as COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, smokers' lung), bronchial asthma, interstitial lung disease (ILD) and sarcoidosis. For specific issues such…