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The University Children's Hospital Basel (UKBB) is an independent, university centre of excellence for paediatric and adolescent medicine as well as for teaching and research and one of the three independent children's hospitals in Switzerland. With its high-quality medical services, the UKBB ensures cantonal paediatric and adolescent medical care and also serves regional and supra-regional healthcare. The UKBB is one of the leading university paediatric and adolescent medical centres in Switzerland.
Rising cost pressure, an increasing shortage of specialists, advancing digitalisation: UKBB is facing up to these key challenges in the Swiss healthcare system with its "Strategy 2022++". It shows how the UKBB can continue to provide the best possible care for its patients in the future.
The cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft are responsible for the UKBB. The UKBB is an independent institution under public law with its own legal personality and is based in Basel.
The UKBB is managed in accordance with Swiss and cantonal law and in particular the state treaty between the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft on the University Children's Hospital of both Basel (Children's Hospital Treaty) of 22 January 2013.
The Board of Directors is the highest governing body of UKBB. It is elected jointly by the governments of the two sponsoring cantons by means of identical resolutions. Its tasks are as follows State treaty regulated.
Members of the Board of Directors
Secretariat
Committees of the Board of Directors
Three standing committees support the work of the Board of Directors.
The Executive Board consists of the CEO and the heads of the individual divisions. The CEO heads the Executive Board. He is responsible to the Board of Directors for the management of UKBB. The Executive Board is responsible for the running of the hospital.
Members of the Executive Board
The UKBB maintains a close partnership with the following organisations and foundations and would like to thank them for their kind support.
Pro UKBB Foundation
The treatment of sick children is demanding and causes higher costs compared to adult patients. In order to ensure comprehensive care, UKBB is dependent on additional donations and funding from sponsors. Thanks to the generous support of the Pro UKBB Foundation, we are able to permanently cover the costs in all areas where public funds or other sources of financing are insufficient.
The inauguration of the children's hospital on the banks of the Rhine took place on 2 January 1862. It initially had 40 beds and was long regarded as a model building for a children's hospital. Around 30 years later, the children's hospital finally opened its first operating theatre and soon after installed its first X-ray machine. As the population grew, so did the number of patients: from 120 in 1862 to around 6,500 in 2009.
Merger to form the University Children's Hospital of both Basel
Around 100 years later, at the beginning of 1999, the children's hospital took the next big step: the two cantonal children's hospitals in Basel and on the Bruderholz merged to form the University Children's Hospital of Basel (UKBB), a public organisation with three sites. While general paediatrics, an emergency department and an outpatient clinic were housed at Römergasse in Basel, paediatric surgery, paediatric orthopaedics, intensive care and a further emergency department and outpatient clinic were located at Bruderholz (Baselland). The NeonatologyThe department for premature and sick newborn babies, with its 16 beds, was integrated into the new building of the Basel Women's Hospital and officially became the third site of the UKBB. However, it soon became clear that spreading operations across different sites would cause certain problems. For this reason, an optimal solution was sought: finally, in August 2000, the two governments came out in favour of a new hospital at a single location on the site of the former women's hospital in Basel.
State-of-the-art paediatrics
After several years of planning and construction, the UKBB started operations in the building at Spitalstrasse 33 in Basel on 29 January 2011. The new hospital offers a child-friendly infrastructure, state-of-the-art equipment and qualified specialist staff.
058 387 78 82 (Costs are settled via the health insurance company)
In the event of an emergency abroad, call the emergency number of your health insurance company. You will find the contact details on your health insurance card.
145 (Poison and Information Centre)
University Children's Hospital of both
Basel, Spitalstrasse 33
4056 Basel | CH
Phone +41 61 704 12 12
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The Medgate Kids Line provides quick and uncomplicated medical advice if your child is unwell. The medical team of our partner Medgate is available to you by telephone around the clock.
For emergencies abroad: Call the emergency number of your health insurance company. You will find this number on your health insurance card.
More information: On the Page of the emergency ward you will find everything you need to know about behaviour in emergencies, typical childhood illnesses and waiting times.
144 Outpatient clinic
145 Tox Info Suisse (Poisonings)
117 Police
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