Outpatient surgical centre «OPERA Baselland» under the public private partnership between Kantonsspital Baselland and Hirslanden Klinik Birshof

The current trend is clearly towards medicine on an outpatient basis. One reason for this is medical advances, which allow patients who have undergone surgery to go home again the very same day. The other is that outpatient surgical interventions are set to become even more important in future due to state regulations.

This is why the cooperation partners are bringing together their outpatient procedures in a new outpatient surgical centre at the Bruderholz site, OPERA Baselland. To ensure optimal use of the available capacities, the range of services will not just include orthopaedics, but also other fields of surgery.

In the context of a premium-quality setting all treatments will be completed in a matter of hours. If efficient procedures are to be ensured, numerous details need to be right for both patients and medical staff. This calls for simple integration, a modern infrastructure, standardised lean processes, trained staff and short distances. All requirements on high-quality, state-of-the-art medicine will be fulfilled at the new joint surgical centre for outpatients. It will offer its medical staff first-rate conditions for treating and looking after patients to optimum effect in an attractive environment. In anticipation of the trend towards increasing outpatient care, it will be possible to extend the building, if needed, quickly, economically and sustainably thanks to its modular design.

Hirslanden CEO Daniel Liedtke and Madeleine Stöckli, Chairman of the Board at KSBL, are both looking forward to their common project. Liedtke comments: «With this outpatient surgical centre we are greatly boosting added value for everyone in need of outpatient surgery in the canton Basel-Land. This unit will also allow us to offer all qualified doctors in the region a modern, top-quality working environment.» Stöckli stressed: «We are catering for the shift from inpatient to outpatient health care, following the «Focus» strategy that is entirely in line with this trend. Our patients benefit from short hospitalisation periods and top treatment quality at cutting-edge facilities specially created for them.» Both Liedtke and Stöckli are in no doubt about their shared goal of spearheading outpatient surgery in terms of medical and economic quality in the canton Basel-Land.

About Hirslanden

The Hirslanden Group operates 17 hospitals in 10 cantons, many of which have an emergency department. It also operates 4 outpatient surgical units, 17 radiology institutes and 5 radiotherapy institutes. Together with public and private cooperation partners, Hirslanden focuses on the continuum of care and the promoting of high-quality, responsible, personalised and efficiently integrated healthcare. The Group has 2 506 affiliated doctors and 10 417 employees, 498 of whom are permanently employed doctors. Hirslanden is the largest medical network in Switzerland. In the 2019/20 financial year, the Group generated turnover of CHF 1’804 million. As at 31.3.2020, the Group had treated 107’491 patients, amounting to a total of 471’717 inpatient days. In insurance terms, the patient mix consists of 49.2% basic, 29.3% semi-private, and 21.5% private insured patients.

Hirslanden is synonymous with first-class medical care provided by highly qualified medical specialists with many years of experience. As a system provider, the Group stands out from the rest of the market: interdisciplinary medical centres of expertise and specialised institutes enable it to offer the best possible individualised treatment, even in highly complex cases. The Hirslanden Group was formed in 1990 through the merger of several hospitals. Since 2007, it has been part of the international hospital group Mediclinic International plc, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

About KSBL

Kantonsspital Baselland provides primary care and other medical services for the canton of Basel-Land with facilities in Liestal and Bruderholz and an outpatient unit in Laufen. Our mission is to ensure the provision of healthcare services for the residents of Basel-Land. We offer the full range of diagnostic, outpatient and inpatient care in twelve specialised clinics and institutes. Our emergency departments and emergency services are available around the clock. KSBL’s services are complemented by wide variety of specialist consultations and therapies that are also available to outpatients. All three locations are equipped with the relevant infrastructure for performing outpatient surgery. KSBL is also committed to teaching and research, which is why we have a number of structural professorships and maintain close ties with universities.