Hirslanden Private Hospital Group

Hirslanden Private Hospital Group

Type	Joint-stock company
Industry	Medicine
Founded	1932 / 1990
Headquarters	Seefeldstrasse 214, Zurich, Switzerland
Key people	Ole Wiesinger (CEO)
Revenue	1'647 billion CHF (2015/2016)
Number of employees	8'573 (2016)
Website	Hirslanden

Hirslanden is Switzerland's largest private hospital group. The Group has 16 clinics in 11 districts, 2’033 physicians, 8’753 employees and 1’680 beds.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

During the 2015/16 financial year, Hirslanden recorded a turnover of CHF 1'647 millions. The distribution of patients for this year included 43.5% of uninsured patients, 31.9% of patients with semi-private insurance and 24,6% of patients with private insurance. The Hirslanden Group has 11 emergency rooms and contributes to the fundamental needs of the Swiss population.^[6]

The Hirslanden Private Hospital Group was formed in 1990 following the merger of several private clinics.^[7] The South African hospital group Mediclinic International Ltd bought it in 2007.^[8] To date, the Group has over 2’033 physicians and 8’753 employees from 92 different countries.^[5][1][9]

Hirslanden is among the largest private hospital groups in Europe with 98'609 patients for the 2015/16 period.^[5][10]

Location of the different clinics

History

Klinik Hirslanden Zurich

The name Hirslanden comes from the Klinik Hirslanden in Zurich opened in 1932 and was at that time located in the Hirslanden district (today Weinegg). The Hirslanden Private Hospital Group was launched in early July 1990 by merging the Hirslanden Klinik with four hospitals then owned by the AMI Group (American Medical International): Klinik Aarau (opened in 1988), Klinik Beau-Site in Bern (opened in 1945), Clinique Cecil in Lausanne (opened in 1931) and Klinik Im Park in Zurich (opened in 1986).^[1][11] The majority shareholder of the newly formed group was UBS.

In the following years, the group acquired many other private clinics: Klinik Permanence in Bern in 1997 (opened in 1978), Clinique Bois-Cerf in Lausanne in 1998, Klinik Belair in Schaffhausen and AndreasKlinik in Zug in 2001, Klinik Am Rosenberg in Heiden, Klinik Birshof in Basel and the Salem-Spital in Bern in 2002, Klinik St. Anna in Lucerne in 2005, Klinik Stephanshorn in St. Gallen in 2010, Klinik Meggen and Clinique La Colline in Geneva in 2014.^[12][13]

Within the Group's shareholders, two major changes can be noted so far: in 2002, the British investment group BC Partners Funds took over UBS^[14] and sold the Hirslanden Hospital Group to the South African Mediclinic Corporation in 2007.^[15][16]

Number of patients by medical field

Official Website

• Hirslanden Private Hospital Group

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