- The Clinique Générale-Beaulieu was founded in August 1899.
- Multi-disciplinary in its approach, the clinic counts more than 400 staff and nearly 600 licensed physicians. A total of 134 beds are available.
- The facilities include six nursing units, seven operating theatres, one reanimation center, as well as six specialty centres of international reputation :
- The Institute of Radiology;
- The Institute of Nuclear Medicine;
- The Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery Center;
- The Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) Center;
- The Maternity Unit;
- The Physiotherapy and Functional Rehabilitation Center.
- The Institute of Radiology has seven radiologists working with the latest magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan for investigating the central nervous (brain and spinal cord), digestive, urinary and osteo-articular systems.
- Institute of Nuclear Medicine, the largest privately owned structure for nuclear medicine in Geneva, has its own team and was proud to own the first positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scanner in Switzerland. This state-of-the-art isotopical imaging technique is considered as the most sensitive method available in modern oncology.
- The Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery Centre that opened in 2003, features the Da Vinci S® robot, one of the world’s best technologies. This equipment is notably used in the treatment of prostatic cancer (urology).
- The ART center, which is managed in partnership with Unilabs laboratories and a team of gynecologists specialised in reproductive medicine, a urologist and a biologist, was inaugurated in 2005.
- The Maternity Unit, modernized in 2005, has three delivery rooms, a nursery and one neonatal unit.
- The Physiotherapy and Functional Rehabilitation Center is run by team of dedicated physiotherapists and counts a unit devoted to sports medicine.
- The operating room performs an average of 7500 operations a year, backed-up by the latest equipment, notably in the new integrated theatres.
- More than 50 medical practices established in the neighbourhood and covering all specialties collaborate with the clinic.
- Over 6000 patients with an average stay of 5 days were treated in 2006. The Maternity Unit saw the birth of 557 babies the same year.
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