Spital Affoltern

What Spital Affoltern does

Spital Affoltern is a regional non-profit hospital located in Affoltern Am Albis, in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 1902. The facility operates an emergency ward and provides outpatient clinic services in gynecology and obstetrics, geriatrics, psychiatry, and psychotherapy. With 501-1000 employees, it functions as a community anchor hospital serving the Affoltern am Albis district and surrounding catchment.

The hospital's service mix — emergency care, women's health, elder care, and mental health — indicates a general hospital model covering both acute and chronic care needs. Its 120+ year operating history and status as a non-profit suggest an entrenched community role with established referral relationships with local physicians. As a Swiss Spital, it is likely subject to cantonal hospital planning (Spitalliste) and operates under the federal mandatory health insurance framework (OKP/KVG), though the specific ownership (cantonal, regional, or independent non-profit) is not confirmed in the available data.

The business model is consistent with Swiss non-profit regional hospitals: revenue is generated through a combination of cantonal subsidies, Swiss DRG-based case reimbursements from mandatory health insurers, and patient co-payments. No financial figures, technology stack, product launch history, leadership details, or partnership data are available in the input — the primary underlying source is a placeholder/loading page on the hospital's website with no substantive content, which limits further specificity.

Name

Spital Affoltern

Legal name

Spital Affoltern

Website

https://spitalaffoltern.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

1902

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Spital Affoltern is a Swiss non-profit regional hospital founded in 1902 in Affoltern Am Albis, providing emergency care, gynecology/obstetrics, geriatrics, psychiatry, and psychotherapy services to the local community with 501-1000 employees.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Affoltern Am Albis

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Core offering

Spital Affoltern is a regional hospital in Affoltern am Albis, Switzerland, providing an emergency ward, an outpatient clinic for gynecology and obstetrics, geriatrics, psychiatry, and psychotherapy. The facility delivers acute, scheduled, and specialty outpatient medical care to local residents across multiple clinical disciplines, operating as a non-profit community hospital.

Differentiator

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• Emergency Ward Services

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Technology focussed No

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Emerging players

• Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich (PUK): Specialty psychiatric hospital adjacent to the Zurich metro region; directly comparable to Spital Affoltern's psychiatry/psychotherapy service line and a potential partner for capacity overflow.

Direct peers

• GZO Spital Wetzikon: Regional Zurich-area hospital with comparable acute care, OB/GYN and geriatric offerings; serves as a near-substitute for Spital Affoltern for residents in adjacent catchment zones.
• Spital Uster: Cantonal hospital in the eastern Zurich region offering a similar mix of emergency, gynecology/obstetrics, geriatrics and psychiatry services to a comparable catchment population.
• Spital Limmattal: Public regional hospital in the Zurich metropolitan region providing emergency, OB/GYN, geriatrics and psychiatric outpatient services, directly comparable in scale, ownership form and service mix to Spital Affoltern.
• Spital Bülach: Non-profit regional hospital in northern Zurich canton offering emergency, obstetrics and geriatric services; competes for overlapping catchment patients and operates under a similar cantonal mandate.
• Spital Zollikerberg: Non-profit regional hospital in the Zurich area offering comparable multi-specialty inpatient and outpatient services including obstetrics, geriatrics and emergency care; very similar size and catchment profile to Spital Affoltern.

Broad incumbents

• Universitätsspital Zürich (USZ): Switzerland's largest university hospital; functions as a tertiary referral destination for cases that exceed Spital Affoltern's capabilities, making it both a partner (for transfers) and a competitor (for higher-acuity patients).
• Klinik Hirslanden: Switzerland's largest private hospital group, operating broad multi-specialty facilities including in the Zurich area; competes for privately insured OB/GYN, surgical and geriatric patients who might otherwise use Spital Affoltern.
• Kantonsspital Winterthur (KSW): Large cantonal hospital in the greater Zurich region providing an extended specialty and emergency portfolio; competing incumbent for Zurich-region secondary care referrals.
• Stadtspital Zürich (Triemli & Waid): Larger city-of-Zurich public hospital group offering a much broader specialty and emergency portfolio; competes with Spital Affoltern for complex cases and physician recruitment across the metro region.

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Key risks5 records

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