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Hospital social services Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand The hospital social services unit offers support and assistance in connection with hospitalization, working in a multidisciplinary manner. Who we are The hospital social services unit is made up of four HES social workers, based at the Sierre, Sion and Martigny sites and at the Saint-Amé clinic. The department's staff provide discreet support to patients and their families during their stay in hospital, to help them make the administrative transition back home as…
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.…
Psychiatric Emergencies Emergency Number: 0800 012 210 Outpatient Services Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Skills Centre: Outpatient Psychiatric Department for Adults, Children and Elderly People. Competence centres for psychiatry and psychotherapy Sierre Sion Martigny Monthey Sierre Sion Martigny Monthey Av. du Général-Guisan 8 3960 Sierre Tel: 027 603 84 70 Rue de Lausanne 63 1950 Sion Tel: 027 603 84 40 Rue de l'Hôpital 14 1920 Martigny Tel: 027 603 63 00 Av. de France 49 1870 Monthey Tel: 027 604 73 90 Psychiatric and…
Social services The Hospital Social Service, available at both the Centre Hospitalier du Haut-Valais (SZO) and the Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand, provides free and confidential support to patients and their families. Both services focus on support during hospitalisation and social and professional reintegration, with an emphasis on autonomy, integration and material security. The two services work in a multidisciplinary way and are available to inpatients and long-term outpatients, as well as their families, for any…
Sleep medicine Sleep Clinic We spend roughly 30% of our lives sleeping. Sleep medicine can be beneficial when sleep is disturbed or when it doesn’t properly fulfil its role of giving us rest. Excessive fatigue, insomnia, constantly waking up at night, sleep apnoea, snoring, abnormal behaviour at night, jet lag and restless limb syndrome are some of the many conditions we deal with every day. The Sleep Clinic is certified by the Swiss Society of Sleep Research, Sleep Medicine and Chronobiology. The clinic is part of the…
Operating suite The hospitals of the French-speaking Valais The operating suite is the structure accommodating all the operating theatres, a recovery room, a location for equipment storage, management offices and training rooms. As a veritable hub for the day-to-day management of patients undergoing a scheduled or emergency surgical intervention, the operating suite is a location that supports a very wide range of activities. It occupies a central location in a hospital due to its continual interactions with the various…
Speech Therapy Speech Therapy is the speciality which treats conditions affecting swallowing, speech, the voice, language and communication, whatever they are caused by, in children, adults, and elderly people. At Valais Hospital, speech therapists provide services and cooperate with numerous departments (ENT and cervico-facial surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, palliative care, acute and intensive care, geriatrics, medicine, pneumology, cardiac surgery). Establishing a preliminary assessment allows staff to evaluate the…
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care of the CHVR Purpose of the service Since 2004, the anaesthesiology service of the hospitals of Martigny, Sierre and Sion have combined to form the Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation service (‘Service d'anesthésiologie et de reanimation’, SAR) of the Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand (CHVR). Its purpose is to ensure that patients are provided with optimal care for any intervention involving anaesthesia in and outside the operating block, on all three sites. The service's level…
Le 5 décembre prochain, l’événement « La vie au cœur des soins palliatifs : et si on en parlait ? » réunira les partenaires principaux dans le domaine des soins palliatifs du Valais romand dans les halls d’entrée des hôpitaux de Sion et Martigny. Le Service de médecine palliative du Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand (CHVR), en collaboration avec l’association palliative-vs, La Maison Azur, les bénévoles du Groupe ACCOVIMO et La Passerelle de l’AMIE, invitent la population à cette journée d’informations et d’échanges dans…
Gastroenterology Gastroenterology is the medical speciality concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of all diseases of the digestive system, which includes not only organs such as the oesophagus, the stomach, the small intestine, the large intestine, the rectum and the anus, but also digestive glands such as the liver, the bile ducts and the pancreas. Patients suffering from digestive afflictions can be treated by Valais Hospital gastroenterologists on the Sion, Sierre and Martigny sites for the Valais romand region and…