Our mission
Our mission is to bring to our community, a dedicated medical home consultation structure that best serves the needs of its patients and medical professionals, upholding integrity, trust and the highest standards in health care.
Our values
Improving patients’ well-being and overall quality of life.
Seeing patients in their familiar surroundings helps to ease many of the stresses and difficulties involved in getting to medical appointments, especially for the elderly population. By providing an alternative to often complex hospital admissions and emergency visits, we work to keep patients healthy and happy at home.
Encouraging medical efficiency through teamwork and collaboration.
The advantage of locally trained doctors
Our biggest advantage is that the doctors who work with us have been trained and currently practice in Geneva. Their vast knowledge of the local health community and emergency network is invaluable. They know which specialists to call, what hospital structure to direct patients to in case of need and the various in-home care organisations to solicit, should a patient require home hospitalisation.
Our story
The beginning – a new approach to house calls
In 2004, a small group of local doctors gathered around a kitchen table in Geneva, discussing their experiences with house calls and the added value this type of service brought to health care. The demand for mobile doctors was growing, they agreed, but they had also learned through experience, that the true benefit of house calls was one that complemented the patient’s existing care network. Knowing that a home consultation structure which functioned both with and within the local medical community did not yet exist, these like-minded doctors decided to join forces and create Genève-Médecins.
Unique philosophy – creating an ‘ideal care network’ for the patient
Genève-Médecins approached the home consultation sector with a unique and humble philosophy. By placing their service primarily at the disposition of health care professionals, they attempted to recreate an ‘ideal care network’ for patients – one that held the patient’s best interest as its central objective.
GE-MED was there – on call for patients and professionals
When patients were unable to seek necessary, urgent care outside of their home, Genève-Médecins would rapidly respond. When local GPs were unable to see their patients for urgent matters, they mandated Genève-Médecins to step in. When in-home nursing organisations required a doctor’s immediate intervention, Genève-Médecins was there.
A solid reputation among their peers and the population
With altruistic perspectives and a firm conviction to provide the highest quality care, Genève-Médecins built, brick-by-brick, a solid reputation among their peers and the population, and has become today, a reference in the domain of medical house calls.
A sense of community – federally accredited training centre ISFM/FMH
In favor of simplicity, Genève-Médecins, in 2015, decided to publicly adopt their internal nickname ‘GE-MED’, and has since operated under this easy reference. Today, GE-MED’s sense of community continues to expand. As a federally accredited training centre, and in close collaboration with Geneva’s hospitals, GE-MED offers young doctors, postgraduate ISFM/FMH certification and in-the-field training.
Press
Visites à domicile : la compétence-clé des médecins de famille!
Bulletin des médecins suisse
Mai 2011
Genève-Médecins déménage
et recrute
Tribune de Genève
Décembre 2010
Genève-Médecins : Ça déménage
Communiqué de presse
Décembre 2010
Médecin de nuit
Planète Santé –
Mars 2010
La colère des médecins de famille
Le Temps
Mars 2006
Médecins à domicile: une nouvelle structure est-elle nécessaire ?
Entreprendre, ‘Spéciale Santé’
Printemps 2005
Des médecins réinventent la consultation médicale à domicile
Tribune de Genève
Décembre 2004
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