Services

Swiss Ambulance Rescue is first and foremost a service designated to assist and help others. Our emergency teams, available 24/7, are always ready to bring help to those that are sick or have been injured.

Mandated by 144, the central emergency call unit, our teams are trained to aid people that are physically or mentally suffering.

In addition, our teams are attentive to and support the entourage of the person that is ill. It should be noted that our teams are led to provide care both during the day and at night, in public or within health care institutions (including both public and private clinics).

With the goal of providing patients with complete care, our emergency teams regularly collaborate with different rescue partners, such as SMUR, firefighters, police officers, or Rega.

We respond to more than 9,000 emergency cases and 5,500 non-emergency cases and transports (bariatric and incubator) per year.

IMPORTANT: Our teams wish to remind you that the emergency phone number to call for their assistance is 144.

Our transport teams are available 24/7 to provide transportation to and from another health care site for all hospitalized patients.

This transportation is for immobile patients or those that require continuous medical surveillance.

The crew comprising of an ambulance technician and an ambulance driver with extensive CPR training will do everything possible to provide a comfortable and safe journey.

Swiss Ambulance Rescue provides the 144 call center with a Geneva University Hospital transport team. This team is mandated by the 144 call center to transport patients from one Geneva University Hospital to another.

Swiss Ambulance Rescue also provides a “private” transport team in order to respond to requests from outside partners, such as private clinics. However, this team can also provide inter-Geneva University Hospital transports in cases of high demand. Swiss Ambulance Rescue’s two main goals are to preserve the well-being of the patient and to be available for our different partners.

If you are hospitalized abroad and wish to return to your home canton or city, our department will undertake the organization of your full repatriation by means of transportation that is most adapted to your needs, whether that be by airplane, train, ambulance, or patient transport car.

For cases of ambulance transport, you will be taken care of a team comprised of an ambulance technician and an ambulance driver, both who have followed extensive CPR training.

CeThese teams are created to provide you with a journey that is both medically and personally comfortable. This particularly appreciated service is made possible thanks to cooperation with the following partners: Rega, SOS International, Europe Assistance, CNAS, amongst others.

Note: if you do not have health insurance, it is always possible to receive a quote for private repatriation.

Swiss Ambulance Rescue is always at your disposal to provide you with personalized service for any situation which requires permanent availability of qualified medical personnel or an ambulance, whether that be a sports event, private affair, presidential guard, or other.

Our teams have great experience participating in these sorts of events and are trained to help you in case of any medical situation. Here are just some of the events for which we assure medical support: the Vovinam Viet Vi Dao European championship, the Course de l’Escalade, Glisse en Ville, the Geneva Open at Parc Eaux-Vives, the Supercoss, etc.

Our call center team provides you with the following tasks:

• Management or redirection of company telephone lines.
• Drawing up of daily documents.
• Repatriation and private transportation management and follow-up (daytime).
• Computerization of task data.
• Ensure records of call-response and pre-invoicing.
• Responsible for triggering the emergency plan at the behest of 144 (following established procedure).

• Create the daily team and vehicle document for 144.
• Share any operational set-up modifications with 144.
• Respond to repatriation insurance requests, create and organize the circuit, crew, and adapted vehicle for the specific repatriation, and ensure the following of the course to its end as indicated in the established procedures.
• Supervise the personnel’s daily operations.