Philosophy

WE MAKE HOSPITALS A BETTER PLACE

Personal, innovative and integrative: the Swiss hospital and private clinic group is committed to a sustainable healthcare system, permanent innovation and an appreciative approach in order to preserve the most valuable asset - health.

We are working to develop an integrative and multidisciplinary medicine that enables better management of our patient's health capital. We ensure that all our steps align with sustainable social and environmental policies, putting people and the environment in the spotlight.

Vision

Integrated care

People Management

Actions for the climate

Genolier Innovation Hub

Our Vision

All in one: Integrated Care

«The philosophy of the Swiss Medical Network is to put patients at the centre of everything we do. In integrated care, patients are accompanied throughout their lives and all health services are coordinated from a single source. The main aim is to promote the patient's health and not to take action only when the patient is ill.» Antoine Hubert, Member of the Board of Directors

«Swiss Medical Network never had the goal of profiting from the system and watching it collapse. We are a company, but a company whose most fundamental value is to bring about change at all levels - local, regional and federal. We believe that Switzerland deserves a stronger health system.» Raymond Loretan, President of the Board of Directors

Successful introduction of integrated care

The Réseau de l'Arc is setting new standards with its innovative care model: the Réseau de l'Arc is the first integrated healthcare organisation in Switzerland to have impressively demonstrated that networked and coordinated care improves quality while reducing costs.

By working together with service providers along the entire treatment pathway, resources are used efficiently and patients benefit from needs-based care.

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Vision and mission

Following its successful launch, the model is now being rolled out across Switzerland. The VIVA health plan offers a patient-centred alternative to basic insurance that provides both first-class healthcare and significant cost savings. This holistic concept should benefit everyone in Switzerland in the future.

Despite the success, challenges remain: misplaced incentives and rising costs are putting pressure on the healthcare system, while demographic change is further increasing the demand for healthcare services. However, the integrated care model shows that sustainable solutions are possible to overcome these problems.

People Management: A diverse network - a common goal

The Swiss Medical Network spans many different cultural and linguistic regions of Switzerland. The clinics and centres traditionally have a great deal of autonomy and their own historically evolved culture. However different each clinic and region may be, they are all united by common values and the goal of promoting and maintaining patient health.

Professional values

Patients entrust us with their most valuable asset: Their health. Therefore, it is essential for Swiss Medical Network that the patient is at the centre of all efforts and receives personalised medicine. In the course of this, quality and excellence have the highest priority in all our clinics. Furthermore, the Integrated Care project aims to strengthen prevention and thus prevent diseases. In order to achieve these ambitious values every day in all areas, team spirit is at the centre of all professional activities.

Human values

Whether dealing with patients or staff: Interactions should always be characterised by goodwill and trust. At the Swiss Medical Network, people treat each other with respect and appreciation. This recognition is reflected in the company through the promotion of our employees and the strengthening of entrepreneurial spirit or internal mobility. Finally, the compatibility of family and career is important to the Swiss Medical Network in order to provide the conditions for the advancement of women and the strengthening of families.

Corporate values

In the ever-changing healthcare landscape, it is important as a company to promote an agile approach and constantly re-evaluate processes to strengthen effectiveness and efficiency. The local anchoring of the clinics gives them a lot of autonomy and allows them to operate close to the community. Finally, Swiss Medical Network attaches great importance to the sustainability of all actions in order to respect the environment, nature and the individual.

Dominique Sartori, Chief Sustainability Officer of SwissMedical Network

Dominique Sartori is a recognised specialist in alternative energies and has carried out various ecological projects in his capacity as Director of the Hôpital du Jura bernois.

He has been helping to implement our sustainability strategy :

Sustainability of the health system in the sense of its quality and economy: only a health system that is able to contain the explosion in costs and place the health of the individual at the centre of its concerns can survive in the long term. Our integrated healthcare project in the Bernese Jura is precisely in line with this perspective and is taking concrete forms.
Sustainability of our corporate culture: we empower and encourage our employees and patients. We encourage cooperation based on respect and mutual trust. This will be expressed in our new charter.
Sustainability of our ecosystem: we promote energy efficiency and biodiversity, we are committed to reducing waste, and we focus on a healthy lifestyle for our patients, physicians and employees.

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Actions for the climate

We strive to be environmentally friendly and to continuously improve our environmental impact reduction across our organisation. In particular, we take action in the way we power our facilities; purchase food, medical supplies and equipment; manage waste and promote soft mobility amongst our staff.

Preservation of natural resources

Implementing practices and equipment to reduce and/or recycle their energy use
Progressively replacing oil-fired boilers
Optimising light sources: sun, LED, motion detectors

Transition to the circular economy

Programmes to reduce, reuse and/or recycle waste from food as well as from medical equipment and utensils. For example:

Eliminating the use of plastic cutlery
Zero food waste policy in partnership with our partners

Procurement of local products

This is one of the Group’s important purchasing principles and most clinics put it into practice by purchasing products with a short supply chain.

Soft mobility

Most clinics offer a mobility programme and a contribution to public transport season tickets (SBB) to encourage employees to use public transport.

In some clinics, electric bicycles are also available to employees. Electricity charging points have been installed and company cars are all electric.

Genolier Innovation Hub – A platform for healthcare companies

«We strongly believe that innovation is a key driver for creating shared value for patients, researchers and the medical profession as a whole, with direct benefits for society.»

Campus Genolier, consisting of Clinique de Genolier, Clinique Nescens and Genolier Innovation Hub, as well as Swiss Visio, is a place where research and practice merge. Its unique location in Health Valley makes it possible to combine research in companies and laboratories with application in the context of tests and clinical studies in a practical environment. This should enable patients to access the latest products, technologies and services more quickly.

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