Waiting times Ade: Wiener Health Association starts fast operating initiative!

Waiting times Ade: Wiener Health Association starts fast operating initiative!

An exciting innovation for patients with long waiting times for operations in Vienna: The Vienna Health Association (WigEV) has created a cooperation with the Premiqamed private clinics in order to advance the flow of planned interventions. As the Krone , up to 500 Viennese, who are the longest waiting for relatively simple operations, should already have the chance to be treated in a private hospital at the beginning of April while the city pays the costs.

The measure serves to relieve the city's hospitals, which are overloaded due to the continuing backlog of predictable routine operations and an increasing number of acute interventions. Between 2020 and 2022, the cooperation during the Covid pandemic had already proven itself; More than 2400 operations have been successfully carried out in private clinics, as stated in a message from the Wigev. The medical director Michael Binder emphasizes that this strategy will help patients take their treatment without additional costs. Patients whose operations are laid can also maintain treatment in the WigEV hospitals if they already have a fixed appointment.

flexibility and efficiency for patients

With the new partnership with Premiqamed, additional surgical capacities are now available. Patients who like waiting lists for predictable interventions benefit from the advantages. The success rate of this cooperation is regarded as pioneering for the organization of the healthcare system in Vienna, since 90 % of all rescue drives take place during the day and 96 % at night in Wigev clinics, such as gesundheitsverbund.at reported.

The cooperation includes interventions from various medical disciplines such as orthopedics, general surgery and ENT, whereby the patients are being overdoors. This comprehensive support is intended to ensure that patients are not only well cared for during their stay in the private clinic, but also receive a complete aftercare by the WigEV clinics after the operation.