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Clinique de La Source

Lausanne (Vaud)

The largest private multidisciplinary acute-care clinic in the canton of Vaud, founded in 1891 in Lausanne. A private non-profit institution with 150 beds, 12 operating theatres, cardiac surgery heritage and one of the biggest radiology institutes in the canton, treating more than 100,000 patients a year.

Founded

1891

Beds

150

Specialty

Full-service private hospital (acute care)

Fees

Outpatient care is billed at the same rates as public hospitals under basic insurance; contact the clinic for inpatient pricing.

About the clinic

Clinique de La Source is the largest private institution offering multidisciplinary acute care in the canton of Vaud. It was founded in 1891 by Dr Charles Krafft, a European pioneer of appendectomies, who opened a clinic in his apartment in Lausanne. Today it belongs to the Fondation La Source, a private non-profit institution that also runs a renowned nursing school (now part of HES-SO). The clinic has 150 beds, 12 operating theatres plus 2 delivery rooms, a cardiac catheterisation laboratory, intensive care and imaging and interventional radiology. Its specialities span cardiology and cardiac surgery (a centre directed in its day by Prof. Charles Hahn, pioneer of coronary surgery in Europe), oncology and radio-oncology, orthopaedics and traumatology, gynaecology and obstetrics, urology (with a dedicated prostate centre), digestive diseases and more. It treats more than 100,000 patients every year.

Highlights

·Largest private multidisciplinary acute-care clinic in the canton of Vaud
·Founded 1891; belongs to the non-profit Fondation La Source
·150 beds, 12 operating theatres and 2 delivery rooms
·Historic centre for cardiac surgery and largest private imaging institute in the canton