Hirslanden Clinique La Colline to receive "Sport Medical Base" certification from Swiss Olympic on 1 January 2017. The quality of Hirslanden Clinique La Colline's sports-related care and commitment have been recognised by Swiss Olympic. From 1 January 2017, Hirslanden Clinique La Colline will hold the "Sport Medical Base" certification.

Geneva, 29 November 2016

For many years, Hirslanden Clinique La Colline has been committed to several sports-related medical specialties such as orthopaedics and physiotherapy, and now the hospital has received accreditation from Swiss Olympic allowing it to advise young and experienced athletes on medical and medical-sports matters.

"We are very proud to receive this important recognition, confirming the quality of our medical-sports services and the strategic direction that we have taken," says Stéphan Studer, Hospital Manager of Clinique La Colline.

This accreditation will be granted to Hirslanden Clinique La Colline in mid-December and will be valid from 1 January 2017.

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Clinique La Colline is located just a few minutes from the centre of Geneva and offers multidisciplinary medical and surgical services through more than 20 different specialties. Following an extension at the end of 2014, the hospital has state-of-the-art facilities, with 100 bedrooms and suites, an emergency department, six operating theatres and its own outpatients department. Around 280 members of staff and 400 affiliated doctors oversee the health and wellbeing of patients.

Clinique La Colline is part of the Hirslanden Private Hospital Group, which has belonged to South African hospital group Mediclinic International Limited since 2007. The Hirslanden Private Hospital Group has 16 hospitals in 11 cantons, with 2,000 affiliated doctors and employed doctors, and nearly 8,450 members of staff. The foremost private hospital group in Switzerland, Hirslanden also represents the biggest medical network in the country.