Academic Hospital Helios Weisseritztal Freital

The Academic Hospital Helios Weisseritztal Freital is a general hospital in the idyllic Ore Mountains of Saxon, Switzerland, just ten kilometers from the city center of Dresden. The hospital's philosophy is to work with the latest patient-centered tools and see everyone achieve the best patient care results. The hospital has a wide range of services, mainly in surgery,  orthopedics, and internal medicine. More than 680 employees treat about 17,000 inpatients and about 40,000 outpatients every year. In the maternity hospital clinic, more than 500 babies are born yearly. The Helios Weisseritztal Clinic is a 340-bed emergency hospital with standard care and an academic teaching hospital of the Technical University of Dresden. The clinic has high competence in various medical fields, which many awards and certificates confirm.  The Helios Obesity Center in Saxony is certified by the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery as a competent center for obesity treatment and metabolic surgery. The certified vascular center of the Freital Hospital is also nationally renowned. The medical team works on an interdisciplinary basis to treat patients with all acute and chronic diseases of the arterial and venous vascular systems.  The modern department of physiotherapy of the clinic includes various methods of movement therapy, physiotherapy, and holistic therapy. The department's range of services consists of individually selected treatment methods for each patient. In internal medicine, surgery, orthopedics, vascular surgery, geriatrics, pediatric and adolescent medicine, gynecology, and obstetrics, patient care is carried out in close interdisciplinary collaboration between individual clinics and centers. Outpatient diagnostics and surgical options complement the inpatient offer at the clinic. In addition, emergency departments are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for inpatient and outpatient emergency care.