Cardiac Medicine Hospitals Schaffhausen

Schaffhausen hospitals join forces with Hirslanden in cardiac medicine

Media release from 17.02.2021

From March 2021, the Schaffhausen hospitals will be working together with Hirslanden in the field of cardiac medicine, thus providing the population of the canton of Schaffhausen with an extended range of high-quality care close to home as well as a connection to the medical network of the Hirslanden Group.

The aim of the cooperation is to further improve outpatient and inpatient medical care for the population of Schaffhausen in the field of cardiac medicine. To this end, the Schaffhausen Hospitals are investing in a state-of-the-art catheter laboratory at the Schaffhausen Cantonal Hospital and in an upgrade of the existing CT machine. Together with MRI diagnostics and echocardiography, this will create a centre for imaging procedures in the field of cardiac medicine. These steps will make it possible in future to carry out extensive outpatient diagnostic investigations. At the same time, the possibility for invasive cardiological interventions at the Cantonal Hospital Schaffhausen is opened up.

The Herzklinik Hirslanden will provide the specialists needed for this purpose, who will now only work in Schaffhausen or at both locations - both at the Hirslanden Clinic in Zurich and in Schaffhausen. Patients in Schaffhausen will thus benefit from a broad range of examinations and treatments in the field of cardiac medicine by proven specialists from the Hirslanden Clinic and the Schaffhausen Hospitals, close to home.

Patients requiring cardiac surgery or more complex invasive cardiological procedures will in future be treated as a priority at the Hirslanden Clinic in Zurich. Follow-up care will again be provided at the Cantonal Hospital Schaffhausen. In this way, the cooperation partners ensure high-quality cardiological and cardiosurgical care for patients in Schaffhausen across the entire diagnostic and therapeutic spectrum. Arend Wilpshaar, Chairman of the Hospital Management of the Schaffhausen Hospitals, emphasizes: "With this cooperation, we are further strengthening healthcare for the regional population." And he adds: "Cooperation in this area not only brings benefits in terms of regional healthcare, but also helps to ensure the highest possible quality against the backdrop of cost developments in the healthcare sector."

Dr. Stephan Pahls, Chief Operating Officer East of the Hirslanden Group, says: "We are very much looking forward to this further cooperation with the hospitals of Schaffhausen, after we already informed them about our cooperation in urology in September. It shows once again that cross-institutional cooperation is able to promote high-quality, integrated medical care and that this results in real added value for patients."

Source: Media release Hirslanden