2024 Key figures
1st Swiss University Hospital
- 11 hospital sites
- 20 care sites
- 65 539 hospital cases
- 1 279 713 outpatients treated
- 30 621 surgical procedures
- 4 102 births
- 146 767 emergencies
- 2 083 beds
- 13 086 employees where 2 224 are physicians and 7 289 in nursing care, medical technology, medical treatment and social services staff
For more information, see 2024 Key figures.
Key dates
The HUG Hospital Group was created in 1995 via a merger of the Geneva public sector hospitals. It continues a tradition of excellence in medicine and science that dates back hundreds of years. Some key dates.
| 1535 | Creation of the General Hospital |
| 1712 | Rebuilding of the General Hospital on the site of the current Palais de justice |
| 1856 | Opening of the Canton Hospital, following the separation of social work, the task of the General Hospice, from medical assistance |
| 1875 | Opening of The Maternity opened at rue Prévost-Martin |
| 1876 | Creation of the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine |
| 1898 | First outpatient consultations (polyclinics) |
| 1900 | Opening of two asylums outside city limits: Loëx ("for incurable and non-contagious patients", and Bel-Air ("for mental health patients") |
| 1913 | Construction of Surgery Department |
| 1943 | Construction on the Cluse-Roseraie site began, which carried on for the next fifty years |
| 1961 | Opening of the Children's Hospital |
| 1972 | Opening of the Geriatrics Hospital |
| 1992 | Opening of the Opéra building containing 12 operating theatres (including four for Emergency) |
| 1995 | Creation of the Geneva University Hospitals |
| 2015 | Opening of Laboratory and Research Building (BATLab) |
| 2016 | Integration of Joli-Mont and Crans-Montana clinics into the HUG |
| 2017 | Opening of Gustave Julliard Building |
| 2021 | EXTOP Project |
Five key publications
150 ans. De l'Hôpital cantonal aux HUG. Une vision politique pour un hôpital public [150 years: from Canton Hospital to HUG. A political vision for a public hospital], by Bernard Lescaze, Médecine+Hygiène, Geneva 2006
A l’orée de la vie - 100 ans de gynécologie et d’obstétrique à la Maternité de Genève [On the cusp of life: 100 years of obstetrics and gynecology at the Geneva Maternity], edited by Philip Rieder, Médecine+Hygiène, Geneva 2007
Loëx. L'Asile, la Maison, l'Hôpital dans la presqu'île [Loëx: Asylum, Home, Hospital on the peninsula], by Armand Brulhart, Georg Editeur, Geneva 2000
Du Mal de Saint-Antoine à Belle-Idée. 2 siècles de psychiatrie à Genève [From Mal de Saint-Antoine to Belle-Idée: 2 centuries of psychiatry in Geneva]. Volume 1, by Armand Brulhart, Georg Editeur, Geneva 2002
De Bel-Air à Belle-Idée. 2 siècles de psychiatrie à Genève [From Mal de Saint-Antoine to Belle-Idée: 2 centuries of psychiatry in Geneva]. Volume 2, edited by Armand Brulhart, Georg Editeur, Geneva 2003
These publications can be ordered from the "L'art à l'hôpital" website (FR).
