The Hirslanden Hospitals in Switzerland
August 2026, 5 min read
Hirslanden is the largest private hospital group in Switzerland, with seventeen sites from Geneva to St Gallen. A plain list of where they are, and what that means when you are choosing where to be treated.
What Hirslanden is
Hirslanden is the largest private hospital group in Switzerland. It is not part of our network, and we have no commercial relationship with it, but patients ask about it often enough that a plain answer is more use than silence.
The group runs seventeen hospitals and outpatient centres across the German-speaking cantons, the Lake Geneva region and Ticino's neighbours. Its scale is the point: a Hirslanden hospital is usually the nearest private option in a Swiss city, and several of its sites hold genuine specialist reputations.
Where the hospitals are
Aarau: Klinik Aarau. Berne: Klinik Beau-Site, Klinik Permanence, Salem-Spital and the Praxiszentrum am Bahnhof. Cham and Zug: AndreasKlinik. Düdingen: Praxiszentrum Düdingen.
Geneva: Clinique La Colline. Heiden: Klinik Am Rosenberg. Lausanne: Clinique Bois-Cerf and Clinique Cecil. Lucerne: Klinik St. Anna and St. Anna im Bahnhof. Meggen: Klinik Meggen.
Münchenstein near Basel: Klinik Birshof. Schaffhausen: Klinik Belair and a Praxiszentrum am Bahnhof. St Gallen: Klinik Stephanshorn. Zurich: Klinik Hirslanden and Klinik Im Park.
What scale does not bring is a single standard.
How to think about scale
A large group brings breadth: if a diagnosis moves in an unexpected direction, the next specialty is usually in the same building or the same city. That is a real advantage, and it is why our own network includes a full private hospital rather than only destination clinics.
What scale does not bring is a single standard. Reputations inside a large group vary by site and by department, which is why a group name on its own is a weak signal when you are choosing where to be treated.
What we would ask instead
The useful question is not which group a hospital belongs to but who will treat you, how many times a year that person performs the procedure in question, and what happens if the case escalates. Those answers are specific to a department, not to a brand.
If you want that checked for a particular Swiss hospital, inside our network or outside it, write to us and we will tell you what we know and what we do not.
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