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Helios Medical Group
Berlin, Germany
Clinic Review
HELIOS is the largest private clinics network in Europe. Helios has been working for 30 years in the medical market of premium quality services. All 112 clinics of the group carry out an intensive interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge, as well as experience for the rapid and effective implementation of innovations. Helios Health Care Center is an expert in all fields of medicine, from outpatient and inpatient emergency therapy, to rehabilitation and professional care for the elderly patients. HELIOS is the leading operator of private hospitals in Europe with more than 100 thousand staff of highly qualified personnel. The Helios Health Care Center includes HELIOS clinics in Germany and Quirónsalud in Spain.
Helios Clinic's infrastructure
112 emergency hospitals and postoperative care clinics, including maximum care hospitals in Berlin, Duisburg, Erfurt, Krefeld, Schwerin, Wiesbaden and Wuppertal;
78 outpatient clinics;
18 prevention centers;
13 homes for the elderly.
Annually in the Helios Health Care Center more than 5.2 million patients are treated, of which about 1.3 million patients are treated on stationary basis. The group's hospitals are designed for a total of 35,000 seats.
The Spanish network Quirónsalud has 43 clinics, 39 ambulatory medical centers and 300 corporate healthcare management facilities. The group is represented in all economically important cities of Spain. Quirónsalud employs 35,000 people. Helios hospitals annually accepts more than a million foreign patients
10th anniversary of the Helios network achievements in facts
2016: the conclusion of the agreement on the purchase of the Spanish hospital group Quironsalud (43 hospitals with a turnover of about 2.5 billion) enabled the network of Helios hospitals to become the largest hospital operator in Germany; Helios initiated a program for the correct treatment of antibiotics.
2015: three HELIOS modeling centers have been established to implement high standards of staff training; In Leipzig, a new cooperation agreement has been signed between the university, the university hospital and the heart center for the sustainable development of cardiology.
2015: the new Helios hub platform is launched - the first in Germany database for developing digital solutions and integrating them into the life of hospital networks.
2013: in the clinics of the network, the number of cases of infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, per 1000 patients, was reduced by 33% compared to 2009.
2012: Helios Hospital Group has achieved more than 90% of its targets.
2011: 5 million euros were additionally allocated for further education and training of Helios employees.
2009: Unique cooperation with the University Medical Center of Göttingen was initiated; The Quality Management Initiative (IQM) showed good results.
2008: Switzerland, based on the indicators of the Helios group, introduces quality parameters as a pilot project throughout the country; The Helios group becomes a corporate member of Transparency Internationally.
2007: construction and opening in a three year period of the Helios Berlin-Buch clinic - the most modern clinic in Europe, to which the Helios medical group invested 200 million euros.
Features of the Clinic
Helios hospital in Berlin-Buch
Clinic Helios Berlin-Buch is considered one of the most modern clinics in Europe. In the construction of this medical institution the Helios group invested more than 200 million euros. In Berlin-Buch there are 1,000 beds available. About 52,000 inpatients and 113,000 outpatients visits annually.
Clinic uses a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment, in which doctors communicate with this medical institution, as well as all the experts that are available in other partner clinics of this network and partner academic institutions. Helios Berlin-Buch has the availability of complex diagnostics and latest medical technologies for treatment.
Helios Berlin-Buch has a certificate of the German Society of Oncology, and is also accredited by the Diabetes Association of Germany as "Clinic for Diabetics of DGG".
BASIC CHECK-UP |
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10 lab tests |
Consultation with a mammologist/proctologist |
Hormone tests |
Echocardiogram, diabetes test |
All departments, institutes and centers of the clinic are located in the new and adjacent buildings. Neighboring polyclinics, specialized clinics, the Center for Pediatrics and the Social Center work closely with the hospital and are in constantly exchanging technical assistance with it. The main goal of the clinic is to provide a high quality medical care. For this purpose, clinic regularly assess all the parameters on the basis of which it optimizes its activities and enters a new level. Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch is versatile, but demonstrates really good results in areas such as the treatment of heart disease, surgery on the abdominal organs, vascular surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics and traumatology and urology.
The clinic does not keep secret of what landmarks it has achieved as compares them with the average results for Germany.
Quality indicators of the Helios Berlin-Buch clinic (Jan.-Dec. 2016):
mortality rate in the initial diagnosis of heart failure - 4.2 in Helios, with an average of 8.2 for Germany;
mortality rate in primary diagnosis of myocardial infarction with left cardiac catheterization without cardiac surgery - 7.3 in Helios with an average of 7.9 in Germany;
mortality in rectal colon cancer surgery - 2.3 in Helios with an average of 4.3 in Germany;
mortality in the case of intestinal obstruction without an abscess - 0 in Helios with an average of 1.1;
mortality in cases of uninterrupted aneurysm of the abdominal aorta (open surgery) - 0 in Helios, with an average of 6.8 in Germany;
mortality in the initial diagnosis of hip fracture - 2.8 in Helios with an average of 5.1 in Germany;
mortality in the removal of the bladder (G-IIC 50.31 and 50.32) - 0 in Helios, with an average rate in Germany of 5.2.
Also it is important to note that the clinic prefers minimally invasive operations. Thus, the proportion of the use of laparoscopic surgery to remove the gallbladder due to stones was 98 cases, with an average of 90 cases by Germany. And the share of laparoscopic surgery in hysterectomy is 91 cases with an average score in the country less than 83.
Endoclinic Helios in Hamburg
HELIOS ENDO-Klinik Hamburg is the largest in specialized orthopedics clinic in Europe. The best specialists in diseases of bones, joints and spine surgery work here. Endoclinic Helios annually carries out more than 80 000 procedures of endoprosthetics. Here, the hip joint replacement, knee, shoulder, ankle and elbow joints are replaced.
Endoclinic Helios in Hamburg entered the TOP- orthopedic clinics in Germany in 2017 according to the magazine Focus.
Annually about 7,000 patients for 40 years trust Endoclinic Helios for their health care.
Over the course of time, more than 140,000 artificial joints were implanted in this medical institution. Also, 700 patients with a diagnosis of "herniated discs" are treated successfully every year.
The advantages of the Endoclinic Helios in Hamburg:
minimally-invasive surgery methods are used here (minimal cuts allow to protect muscles from injury);
surgical treatment is performed here, after which the patient is quickly restored;
the clinic has a rehabilitation center;
here plans for individual prosthetics are being developed;
the clinic has its own donor bone bank;
when detecting pathogens, the whole spectrum of antibiotics is available;
safe methods of anesthesia are used in the clinic;
the best specialists of microsurgery work here.
Statistics of the executed procedures for the year:
hip replacement 3,039 cases;
knee replacement 2,108 cases;
spinal surgery of 480 cases;
foot surgery 339 cases;
shoulder surgery 98 cases;
other types of surgery 48 cases;
interventions without implant 860 cases.
JOINT REPLACEMENT |
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Complex diagnostics |
Individual prosthesis selection (DePuy, Zimmer, etc.) |
Minimally invasive surgery |
Post-op rehabilitation |
Prices for medical procedures in the Helios Network
Procedure | Cost |
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Aortocoronary bypass surgery | from €18,500-25,000. |
Knee endoprosthetics | from €18,000. |
Intervertebral disk replacement | from €15,000. |
Aortic aneurysm / open abdominal aortic prosthesis | from €16,000. |
Reconstructive aortic surgery for stenosis or blockage | from €4,000 |
Reconstructive surgery on femoral artery, without prosthesis | from €2,000 |
Surgical treatment of astrocytoma of the brain | from €16,000 |
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Doctors
The clinic is located in the heart of Berlin-Brandenburg, northeast of Berlin and in the immediate vicinity of Barnima, the hospital can be reached by train on the S2 commuter line and the bus line 893 or by car (about 20 km from the Brandenburg Gate). The main train station of Berlin is about 30 minutes drive from the hospital. Berlin's Tegel and Schönefeld airports can be reached by car in about 50 minutes.
Endoclinic Helios in Hamburg: ENDO-Klinik Hamburg GmbH Abteilung für Intensivmedizin / Schwerpunkt Chirurgie, Holstenstraße, Hamburg, Deutschland