Children’s Hospital Zurich – The Hospital of the Eleonore Foundation

The Children’s Hospital Zurich is the largest pediatric university hospital in Switzerland and one of the leading pediatric medical centers in Europe. Founded in 1874 under the patronage of the privately organized Eleonore Foundation, the Children’s Hospital Zurich is committed to provide the highest quality medical care. A total of thirty divisons is offering the entire spectrum of pediatric medical and surgical care focused on highly specialized medicine and rare diseases. Several areas of highly specialized medicine have been officially assigned to the Children’s Hospital Zurich by the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Health Directors, some exclusively, such as the pediatric burn unit or the highly specialized diagnostics for children with congenital immunodeficiencies. With its own rehabilitation center in Affoltern am Albis, a psychosomatic-psychiatric clinic specialized in the treatment of eating disorders, as well as the Children’s Research Center with its internationally renowned research teams dedicated to clinical translational research, the Children’s Hospital is one of a kind in Europe.