spitäler fmi ag – Your Partner for Health in the Heart of the Bernese Highlands

As a public regional hospital centre [RSZ], the main duty of spitäler frutigen meiringen interlaken ag is to ensure extended primary medical care in the regions Frutigen, Interlaken and Meiringen. This includes a 24-hour emergency service at the fmi sites in Interlaken and Frutigen, and the medical specialties surgery, orthopaedics, internal medicine and cardiology as well as gynaecology and obstetrics and a psychiatric service with a day clinic. spitäler fmi ag operates a health centre in Meiringen with a focus on outpatient surgery as a contact point for the regional population.

The Berner Oberland hospital group has also developed into a centre of competence in numerous specialties. These include, for instance, the Locomotor Apparatus Centre which includes sports medicine and hand surgery, visceral surgery, a modern dialysis ward, an oncology ward, a wide range of offers of treatment and advice, highly modern radiological diagnostics, a multimodal centre for pain medicine, an interdisciplinary sleep laboratory or special services in paediatric surgery.

Thus the majority of the medical needs of the population and holiday guests in the regions Frutigen Interlaken and Oberhasli can be met locally, without long journeys. spitäler fmi ag is also linked with the university Inselspital Bern, the radiotherapy centre at “Radio-Onkologie Berner Oberland” and, together with Bern University and the hospitals in Thun, Basel and Solothurn, is involved in the Aare senology centre.

The organisation of the rescue services provided by spitäler fmi ag is exemplary. A modern fleet of emergency vehicles are in constant readiness at the ambulance stations in Frutigen and Meiringen and at the rescue centre in Interlaken. Together with the private ambulance services in Adelboden, Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen they provide a wide-ranging offer in terms of medical competence and call-out times. In 2008 the rescue services of spitäler fmi ag responded to 3,397 calls, travelling a total of 206,804 kilometres. In addition, the Swiss Air Ambulance REGA and Air Glaciers, the “Saviours in the sky”, can be on the scene quickly anywhere in the region where these services are provided. Apropos of emergencies: The Alpine Emergency Centre in Interlaken treated almost 10,000 patient in 2008.

With 900 employees, spitäler fmi ag is one of the largest employers in the Berner Oberland. However, the group is not just an employer of qualified specialists in more than 50 occupational groups, with about 40 traineeships for different occupations the hospital group also plays a major role in the regional offer of trainee positions.
In addition to salaries and taxes, the flow of funds into the region from the fmi sites amounts to several million Swiss Francs. This benefits not only the many small and larger vendors or craftsmen and service providers, but also the consumer sector and the communities in the fmi region.