GenevaLunch » hospitals http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 07:51:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Geneva hospital gets its own Hollywood Boulevardhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/04/geneva-hospital-gets-its-own-hollywood-boulevard/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/04/geneva-hospital-gets-its-own-hollywood-boulevard/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 12:03:49 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=69905 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – To celebrate World Hand Hand Hygiene Day, the Geneva University Hospital (HUG) is finding inspiration from Hollywood to create its own “hand hygiene boulevard”  Monday 7 May. The HUG says its goal is to alert the public, patients and its own staff to the dangers of infections contracted at hospital and the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/04/geneva-hospital-gets-its-own-hollywood-boulevard/feed/ 0 Valais has second A9 deadly accident this weekhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/16/valais-has-second-a9-deadly-accident-this-week/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/16/valais-has-second-a9-deadly-accident-this-week/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:31:51 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=67842 GenevaLunch.com Accident just 24km from Sion, where injured children, families were being prepared to fly to Belgium GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It has been a particularly deadly week on Swiss roads, and canton Valais, still reeling from the Sierre autoroute tunnel crash Tuesday that killed 28 people, had a second fatal accident on the A9 Friday, bringing [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/16/valais-has-second-a9-deadly-accident-this-week/feed/ 0 A glimmer of hope in the bus crash sadness, as 8 children go home to Belgiumhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/16/a-glimmer-of-hope-in-the-bus-crash-sadness-as-8-children-go-home-to-belgium/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/16/a-glimmer-of-hope-in-the-bus-crash-sadness-as-8-children-go-home-to-belgium/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:04:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=67766 GenevaLunch.com Swiss government to review safety of tunnel pullover emergency areas GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Eight of the children injured in the 13 March bus crash in Sierre, canton Valais, that killed 28 people are heading home in specially-equipped planes, police said in a statement issued Thursday evening. They were discreetly taken to say goodbye to their [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/16/a-glimmer-of-hope-in-the-bus-crash-sadness-as-8-children-go-home-to-belgium/feed/ 0 British public sector strike cripples UKhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/30/british-public-sector-strike-cripples-uk/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/30/british-public-sector-strike-cripples-uk/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:49:57 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64246 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Some 2 million public sector workers are slated to walk out Wednesday 30 November in the UK, affecting schools, hospitals, government offices and public transport, among other services. The strike is over changes to government pension plans, with workers being asked to work longer hours to earn their pensions. The government announced [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/30/british-public-sector-strike-cripples-uk/feed/ 0 Swiss health spending outstripped only by US, Francehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/10/swiss-health-spending-outstripped-only-by-us-france/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/10/swiss-health-spending-outstripped-only-by-us-france/#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:55:30 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=49674 GenevaLunch.com Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Switzerland spent CHF58.5 billion on health care in 2008, or CHF632 per person, figures published 9 November by the federal government show. Healthcare accounted for 10.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), a share that remains virtually unchanged, although spending itself rose by 5.9 percent and was above the 3.5 percent [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/10/swiss-health-spending-outstripped-only-by-us-france/feed/ 0 Lausanne hospital to double surface area in 20 yearshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/04/lausanne-hospital-to-double-surface-area-in-20-years/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/04/lausanne-hospital-to-double-surface-area-in-20-years/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:32:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=43030 GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Swtizerland (GenevaLunch) – Vaud’s cantonal university group of hospitals, Chuv, will double its surface area by 2020, the canton announced 4 June. The cantonal development plan will be open for public consultation this autumn, but the outline of it, just released, shows Chuv scheduled to have nine new buildings and taking up 20 hectares, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/04/lausanne-hospital-to-double-surface-area-in-20-years/feed/ 0 Race against time in search for Sumatra quake survivorshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/02/race-against-time-in-search-for-sumatra-quake-survivors/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/02/race-against-time-in-search-for-sumatra-quake-survivors/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:47:23 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=29006 GenevaLunch.com Assistance from around the world is arriving in the western city of Padang, Sumatra in Indonesia as time runs out for the thousands of people believed still trapped underneath buildings and houses after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck 30 September. The official death toll exceeds 1,100 according to UN Humanitarian Affairs chief, John Holmes. Rescue efforts [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/02/race-against-time-in-search-for-sumatra-quake-survivors/feed/ 0 Cantons likely to pick up unpaid hospital billshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2008/10/14/cantons-likely-to-pick-up-unpaid-hospital-bills/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2008/10/14/cantons-likely-to-pick-up-unpaid-hospital-bills/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:42:39 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=5985 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) – The bulk of a tab for CHF80 million in unpaid hospital bills will most likely be picked up by Swiss cantons. The bills, for 120-150,000 people, are the result of a 2006 change to the law that allowed insurance companies to leave bills unpaid if insured clients’ premiums were [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2008/10/14/cantons-likely-to-pick-up-unpaid-hospital-bills/feed/ 0 Non-urgent hospitalization delays provoke debatehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2008/09/17/non-urgent-hospitalization-delays-provoke-debate/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2008/09/17/non-urgent-hospitalization-delays-provoke-debate/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:42:13 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=4935 GenevaLunch.com Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) – Reports that paying for a private room for non-urgent surgery reduces the waiting time before the operation is scheduled appear to be unfounded. Le Temps, in interview with the head of surgery at the university hospitals in Geneva (HUG) and Vaud (CHUV) was told that the current [...]

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