Clinique Générale welcomes you. All of our teams have your well-being and your safety as their priorities. Everything will be done to ensure that your stay takes place in the best possible conditions.
Our establishment provides care for all insured persons in Switzerland. As a listed hospital, accessible to all patients regardless of their insurance coverage, the clinic provides public service mandates and is involved in a quality and safety improvement process.
We wish you a speedy recovery.
Here you will find all the information you need to know before your stay at Clinique Générale.
Our admissions staff will be happy to answer any questions you may have:
If all the necessary steps have been taken before your arrival, all you have to do is go to the clinic's reception desk at the time indicated.
Please bring the following with you
We would like to draw your attention to the recommendations made by the anaesthetists regarding the rules to follow from the day before the operation: from midnight onwards, you must stop eating. However, you are allowed to drink clear liquids (still water, tea or black coffee) until you leave home.
Our teams will provide you with excellent care. We will provide you with coordinated and multidisciplinary care, thanks to the professionalism and friendliness of our teams, in collaboration with our partners.
For your comfort, we suggest that you bring the following items:
The arrangements for your departure will be determined in consultation with your doctor.
Here you will find all the information you need to know before your outpatient surgery at the Clinique Générale.
To find out what time you are due to arrive at the Clinique Générale, please call the admissions office between 13:30 and 16:00.
If, in the week before your operation, a change in your state of health (cold, sore throat, cough, fever, etc.) occurs, you must contact the clinic.
Follow carefully the recommendations given by the anaesthetists of Anesthesia SA:
For safety reasons, make sure that you have someone available to accompany you home.
Check with our staff that you have the following documents:
Before leaving the clinic, please inform the reception desk of your departure.
If you need to call your surgeon's office. In the evening or at night you can call the Clinique Générale:
Our reception is open from Monday to Friday from 07:00 to 20:00, on Saturday from 09:00 to 17:00 and on Sunday from 10:00 to 19:00.
From Monday to Friday from 07:30 to 18:00.
The secretariat is open from Monday to Friday from 13:00 to 16:00.
The Clinique Générale is located in the centre of the city of Fribourg and is accessible by :
Equally distant from Zurich and Geneva (approx. 01h 30), the Clinique Générale is less than ten minutes from the A12 motorway exit «Fribourg Sud».
It is about 45 minutes from Lausanne and 20 minutes from Bern.
Public parking spaces with a maximum duration of 2 hours are available in the vicinity of the Clinique Générale. The car park of the Pérolles shopping centre is also available.
Two connections per hour with the Intercity trains to Lausanne (45 min), Geneva (1 h 20), Bern (20 min) or Zurich (1 h 30).
The Clinique Générale is a five-minute walk from the SBB station.
From Fribourg station: Lines 1, 3, 7, 8 and 9 / stop «Fries» or «Vogt»
