High-end medicine: To Vienna for treatment

Excellent medical services have a long tradition in Vienna. Nowadays, patients travel from around the world to make use of high-end medicine in Vienna's hospitals. Surgical interventions of almost every kind are on the list, as is safe and comfortable childbirth. Short waiting times and excellent supplemental services make a health trip to Vienna just as attractive as the possibility to enjoy the city's tourist offerings before, during and after treatment.

It is mostly the private hospitals that offer a broad range of interventions and treatments. Childbirth and sophisticated diagnostic interventions are as much as part of the range of services as all surgical disciplines - from plastic to orthopedic, gynecological and urological to vein, eye and ENT surgery. In addition, some clinics, such as the Academy for Oral Implantology, have specialized in specific medical disciplines.

Apart from the high quality of the services, particularly appealing are the relatively short waiting times for treatment and a wealth of attractive ancillary services for a medical intervention in Vienna. The medical and nursing staff in most hospitals that treat visitors to Vienna are well versed in foreign languages - English is spoken everywhere. The hospitals can also quickly arrange for an interpreter to attend as required.

Comfort from visa to limousine

Furthermore, most hospitals offer a wide range of supplemental services - from obtaining visas to making hotel reservations for outpatient treatments or for companion travelers through to the organization of airport and limousine services. Extensive information on rehabilitation measures is a matter of course if the rehabilitation is to take place in Vienna or Austria, and is also helpful for organizing it. Payment options are straightforward, but vary from clinic to clinic. Prompt contact with the Viennese hospital of choice is essential for clarifying all the details (information to bring with you, dietary requirements, existing medication, etc.).

The extensive medical offering of Vienna's hospitals is also based on a tradition with close ties to the "Vienna school of medicine". Its representatives established the city's global reputation as a center for medicine well over a century ago. Today, for example, Gerhard van Swieten (1700-1772), the favorite doctor of Empress Maria Theresia, the physician Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865) and the surgeon Theodor Billroth (1829-1894) are household names outside of specialist circles.

The website www.medical-vienna.com offers a comprehensive overview of Vienna's private clinics with information on the medical specialisms.

Golden Cross Private Clinic (Goldenes Kreuz Privatklinik)
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Entrance of a hospital — Golden Cross Private Clinic (Goldenes Kreuz Privatklinik)
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Academy for Oral Implantology (Akademie für orale Implantologie)

Lazarettgasse 19/DG
1090 Vienna

Comments
- - Specialisms: Oral implantology and implant prosthetics
  - Languages: English, French, arrangement of interpreters for other languages

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Confraternität – Private Clinic Josefstadt (Confraternität – Privatklinik Josefstadt)

Skodagasse 32
1080 Vienna

Comments
- - Full range of medical services, graded system: inpatient, day clinic, outpatient or medical center (simple consultations)
  - Languages: all doctors speak English, in-house interpreters for Russian, Ukrainian and Romanian
  - Possibility to obtain a detailed picture of one's health status within 1-2 days, integrated care system (everything under one roof)
  - Contact especially for visitors to Vienna:
    medical inquiries: Elena Pappenreiter, tel. +43 1 40114-5509
    organizational issues: Sonja Fürnsinn, tel. +43 1 586 28 40

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Döbling Private Clinic (Privatklinik Döbling)

Heiligenstädter Straße 55-63
1190 Vienna

Comments
- - Full range of medical services, graded system: inpatient, day clinic, outpatient or medical center (simple consultations)
  - Languages: all doctors speak English, in-house interpreters for Russian, Ukrainian and Romanian
  - Possibility to obtain a detailed picture of one's health status within 1-2 days, integrated care system (everything under one roof)
  - Contact especially for visitors to Vienna:
    medical inquiries: Yulia Pötzelberger, tel. +43 1 36066-7755
    organizational issues: Sonja Fürnsinn, tel. +43 1 586 28 40

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Evangelical Hospital (Evangelisches Krankenhaus)

Hans-Sachs-Gasse 10-12
1180 Vienna

Comments
- - Standard hospital with extended basic provision, departments: see website
  - Languages: Staff speak Russian and English, other languages through interpreters
  - Contact specially for visitors to Vienna:
    Peter Munk, p.munk@ekhwien.at, ext. 602
    Anita Baumann, a.baumann@ekhwien, ext. 4500

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Golden Cross Private Clinic (Goldenes Kreuz Privatklinik)

Lazarettgasse 16-18
1090 Vienna

Comments
- - Focal points: Obstetrics & gynecology, obstetric anesthesia and pain therapy, newborn ward, fertility center with certified tissue bank, practice for prenatal medicine (Two Care), certified breast health center, certified endometriosis center, surgery, anesthesiology and intensive medicine, internal medicine, nutritional advice, institute for physical medicine, X-rays & imaging diagnostics, medical laboratory
  - Languages: English generally, also: Czech, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croat, Slovakian, Spanish and Turkish
  - Various documents also in English and Russian, "Time for me" program for more wellbeing
  - Contact especially for visitors to Vienna:
    Regina Forchtner-Zawodsky, rforchtner@goldenes-kreuz.at, ext. 9440

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Rudolfinerhaus Private Clinic (Rudolfinerhaus Privatklinik)

Billrothstraße 78
1190 Vienna

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Vienna Private Clinic (Wiener Privatklinik)

Pelikangasse 15
1090 Vienna

Comments
- - Covers all medical spectra and offers all examinations and treatments at the very highest medical level, from medical check-ups to major operations or internal treatments.
  - Languages: Russian, Romanian, English with and without interpreter, interpreter can be organized for all languages
  - Complete medical stay organized, also for external examinations
  - Contact especially for visitors to Vienna:
    Tatjana Worster, worster@wpk.at, ext. 7055