page_title: Geneva University Hospitals
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Geneva University Hospitals / Description
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vue générale de «&#160;l'Hôpital des Trois-Chênes&#160;», hôpital de gériatrie sur la commune de Thônex en Suisse.
context_page_description: The Geneva University Hospitals is one of the five university hospitals of Switzerland, and the largest one in the country. It is one of the largest hospitals in Europe.
  First founded in 1535, the creation of the HUG dates back to 1995 as a merger of all public hospitals in Geneva. The HUG operate 8 hospitals in the Canton of Geneva as well as 40 outpatients clinics.
context_section_description: The Geneva University Hospitals includes 8 public hospitals, 2 clinics and 40 outpatient care centers with more than 11,000 employees (including 5,100 nurses). This hospital is not only a local hospital for the city of Geneva, but also the reference hospital for the rest of the canton and, together with the CHUV Lausanne, the reference hospital for French-speaking Switzerland.
  It is attached to the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine, and is one of five university hospitals in Switzerland; the others are in Basel, Bern, Lausanne and Zurich.
caption: General view of Trois-Chênes Hospital geriatrics or rehabilitation treatments for Geneva University Hospitals
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