Privatklinik Hohenegg AG

Assessed 2026-10-01

Headline basis: Public evidenceThe headline number is the public score, not the extended score., LROAS 1.0.0, edition 2026-10-01

Public-evidence total: 50

The sum of the ten criterion scores, from 10 to 100, using evidence anyone can check, including the clinic's own pages as self-declared statements. For the licence element of C2 only, it can also use an authority ruling held in our sealed evidence room. It is the only number used for the rank.

ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low. ProvisionalA check was still open when the edition closed, for example a register lookup or a video not yet received, or evidence under embargo.: C10.

C1 Client separation and occupancy · 2

General-insurance clients are placed in twin rooms with shower, with a single room only at extra cost, and group psychotherapy and milieu therapy are core modalities on the ward, which is band 2: shared bedrooms at one price tier with group work at the core. Dining rooms, lounge, sauna and park are shared, and the grounds carry publicly accessible footpaths. No sole-occupancy tier is offered, so there is no uplift. No deduction applies because the clinic makes no one-client claim; bed counts are not used as a signal.

ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low

Sources (7 cited items):

• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: Accommodation across four buildings: private and private-superior single rooms plus suites, standard and standard-plus single rooms for semi-private clients, and the general Attika ward.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The foundation fact sheet of February 2026 describes four houses and an operating licence from the Zurich Health Directorate as a listed hospital open to all insurance classes.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: General-insurance clients are placed in twin rooms with shower, with a single room at extra cost, and receive group-based specialist therapies; private and semi-private clients have single rooms, dining halls and weekend brunch.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The clinic fact sheet describes individual and group psychotherapy and milieu therapy as therapeutically guided living together on the ward.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The depression programme lists interpersonal psychotherapy in a group and psychoeducation on depression in a group.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: An anonymous stay can be requested; visits are recommended in the client's room to protect fellow clients' privacy; cultural, sporting and social activities are described as enabling encounters; sauna times are separate for men and women.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The foundation maintains the heritage-protected park with extensive, publicly accessible footpaths.

C2 Clinical governance and medical cover · 7

Privatklinik Hohenegg AG is listed on the Zurich hospital list 2023 for psychiatry, version 2026.1, in force from 1 January 2026, which meets the licence element, and a physician medical director is named. Three further elements are met: round-the-clock medical cover inherent in a listed psychiatric hospital licence (the clinic also states that medical and nursing care is ensured around the clock), non-psychiatric care by general internal medicine physicians for somatic conditions and emergencies, and the clinic's own hospital listing. Band 8 would need a fourth: there is no on-site medically managed withdrawal, EFQM and Swiss Leading Hospitals are quality recognitions rather than an accreditor's register entry, and no complex-psychiatry programme exists (bipolar disorders are outside the service mandate).

ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: high

Known gapsFacts the assessment needed but could not establish.:

• The clinic's round-the-clock statement names physicians but not whether they are on site or on call at night.

Sources (10 cited items):

• zh.ch: The Zurich hospital list 2023 for psychiatry, version 2026.1, in force from 1 January 2026, includes Privatklinik Hohenegg with the operator Privatklinik Hohenegg AG.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The clinic has been on the Zurich hospital list since 1 January 2023, and its leadership comprises a CEO, a medical director and a nursing director.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The privacy notice names the CEO and the medical director as the legal representatives of Privatklinik Hohenegg AG.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: Physicians in general internal medicine treat pre-existing somatic conditions during hospitalisation, treat somatic emergencies, and arrange physiotherapy or nutrition counselling on indication.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The team page names a lead physician for somatic care.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The referrer information, valid from 1 March 2025, states that the clinic treats hospitalised adults up to 64, that bipolar disorders are not part of its service mandate, and lists absolute and relative contraindications.
• zh.ch: Place of care named as: Privatklinik Hohenegg, Hohenegg 1, 8706 Meilen
• Zuercher Spitalliste 2023 Psychiatrie, Version 2026.1: Search of Zuercher Spitalliste 2023 Psychiatrie, Version 2026.1. Scope: register entry for the clinic or its operator (licence class). Result: record found.
• BAG Kennzahlen 2024: Search of BAG Kennzahlen 2024. Scope: register entry for the clinic or its operator (licence class). Result: record found: Typ K212.
• Zefix: Search of Zefix. Scope: register entry for the clinic or its operator (licence class). Result: record found: Privatklinik Hohenegg AG, Meilen; Zweck 'Betrieb einer Privatklinik zur Behandlung von psychisch und psychosomatisch Erkrankten'.

C3 Diagnostic depth on admission · 6

A preliminary outpatient consultation of about one hour with one of the clinic's physicians or psychologists checks the indication before admission and is billed with a written report, each treatment begins with psychiatric diagnosis, physical assessment and individual treatment planning, all physicians are specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy delivering pharmacotherapy, and neuropsychological testing is available externally for private and semi-private clients. Band 7 is not reached because no laboratory panel on admission is published (laboratory work goes to external laboratories) and no written formulation for the client is published.

ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium

Sources (6 cited items):

• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: A preliminary outpatient consultation of about one hour, usually before admission, with one of the clinic's physicians or psychologists, checks the indication for inpatient admission; clients also complete an online health questionnaire before admission.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: Preliminary consultations are billed at outpatient tariffs, including preparation, follow-up and a report.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: In doubtful cases the final admission decision follows the preliminary consultation; referrers receive a written summary with the client's consent, and the discharge report is sent within two weeks of discharge.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: Each treatment begins with careful psychiatric diagnosis, physical assessment and individual treatment planning; medication includes antidepressants and ketamine for treatment-resistant cases.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The treatment concept describes comprehensive diagnostics, with external neuropsychological testing for private and semi-private clients.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: All physicians are specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy, delivering physician-led psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy.

C4 Clinical intensity · 3

The criterion scores the individual attention every client receives, so the general-ward offer is scored: two individual psychotherapy sessions a week, which is band 3. Private and semi-private clients receive three a week, which would support band 4, but that applies only to one tier. Each client has an assigned physician or psychologist and a primary nurse, but the team is ward-based and pooled, no session length or daily clinical-hour figure is published, and the group share is not established, so no cap applies.

ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low

Known gapsFacts the assessment needed but could not establish.:

• The score reflects the general-ward tier; the private and semi-private tier publishes a higher session count.

Sources (4 cited items):

• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: Psychotherapy three times a week for private and semi-private clients and twice a week for general-insurance clients, as individual sessions, couple and family conversations and group therapies; an assigned physician or psychologist from admission to discharge; a primary nursing system; physicians and psychologists stationed on specific wards.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: Length of stay is set by the need for hospitalisation, matched to the condition, treatment goals and course, and varies between three and eight weeks.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The clinic applies to the insurer for an extension when one is needed.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The private and semi-private tier offers expanded individual therapy options including single sessions; the general ward offers group-based art, movement, sport and meditation therapies.

C5 Continuity and aftercare · 5

The clinic contacts the referrer one to two weeks before discharge and sends the discharge report within two weeks, and the operating company's Zollikerberg outpatient centre runs a group offering with psychotherapeutic and pharmacological follow-up for clients after an inpatient stay in Meilen. These give four aftercare elements and band 5. The band above is not reached: follow-up is normally handed back to the referring clinician, and no written aftercare plan for the client, defined aftercare duration or structured six-month contact is published.

ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium

Sources (5 cited items):

• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: Outpatient follow-up is adapted to the individual situation; after the stay clients are usually cared for by their referring clinician, and where that is no longer possible suitable follow-up is found.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The clinic contacts the referrer one to two weeks before discharge to plan discharge and further steps, and sends the discharge report within two weeks.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The Zollikerberg outpatient centre runs a group offering for clients after an inpatient stay in Meilen, with psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatment covered by basic insurance and self-payment possible, and states that it currently takes no new external referrals.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The Zollikerberg outpatient centre is part of the operating company, as listed on the clinic fact sheet.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: Programme described by the clinic: Zentrum für psychische Gesundheit, outpatient step-down

C6 Admission integrity and commercial conduct · 4

The sweep of the clinic's own domains found no violation: no ranking site linked to the clinic, no assistant-directed content at /ai-instructions/ or in the magazine, and awards presented as employer or quality recognitions rather than clinical accreditation or press. No positive signal is credited: base daily rates are negotiated individually with each insurer so no complete price is published, no referral-fee position is published, and the contraindication list names who is declined without saying where they are referred, so it counts as a statement of limits under C7 rather than a declining policy. A clean sweep with no positive signal gives band 4.

ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low

Sources (7 cited items):

• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: Absolute contraindications are acute suicidality, self-harm and danger to others, people who need another form of therapy, and diagnoses not listed; relative contraindications are decided after a preliminary consultation.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The general-ward tariff sheet, valid from 1 January 2026, gives daily supplements of CHF 270 and 390 and states that TARPSY daily flat rates rest on base rates negotiated individually with insurers and approved by the Canton of Zurich.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The private and semi-private tariff sheet gives supplements set by contract with each insurer, a private upgrade at CHF 120 per day, suites at CHF 70, 120 and 170 per day, and a reservation fee equal to the base rate of CHF 810 semi-private and CHF 930 private per day.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The clinic's magazine carries clinical and event articles and award news, with no ranking, sponsored or assistant-directed content.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The /ai-instructions/ path returns a generic site page with no content addressed to AI assistants.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: A news item presents a Swiss employer award as an employer recognition.
• clinic and group domains, web search: Search of clinic and group domains, web search. Scope: domains checked hohenegg.ch (ueber-uns, behandlungskonzept, depression, zuweisung, infos/leistungsuebersicht, infos/fuer-privat-und-halbprivatversicherte, infos/fuer-allgemeinversicherte, zentrum-fuer-psychische-gesundheit, zentrum-fuer-psychische-gesundheit/zollikerberg, stiftung, mediathek.... Result: sweep recorded; outcome per the C6 V elements.

C7 Transparency toward the client · 7

Six elements are met: fee inclusions and extras with deposit and reservation-fee terms on the tariff sheets, the legal entity Privatklinik Hohenegg AG with its registered address, an external ombuds and complaints office under contract, a client privacy notice with record retention periods, and a candid statement of regulatory status and limits (hospital-list status, age limit, bipolar disorders outside the mandate, contraindications). Not met: no licence number or register link, no statutory inspection results, and no fee term for extending or leaving early. The two tariff sheets cover different insurance classes and do not contradict each other, so no deduction applies.

ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium

Known gapsFacts the assessment needed but could not establish.:

• The fact sheet states that the company is wholly owned by Stiftung Hohenegg, but no commercial register record of that ownership is among the evidence, so the ownership element was not credited.

Sources (7 cited items):

• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The general-ward tariff sheet sets out statutory out-of-pocket costs, supplements, a deposit agreed where no cost approval exists (offset against the final bill, not interest-bearing), a reservation fee of CHF 500 per day for unauthorised absences, personal extras billed directly, billing after discharge, and no general-ward admission for residents abroad.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The private and semi-private tariff sheet states that insurer contracts cover treatment and single-room accommodation, and sets out deposit terms, the reservation fee cases, personal extras and billing.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The imprint gives Privatklinik Hohenegg AG, Hohenegg 1, Postfach 555, CH-8706 Meilen.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The clinic fact sheet of February 2026 gives a public limited company wholly owned by Stiftung Hohenegg, founded 28 September 2005 with share capital of CHF 1.6 million, with profits flowing entirely to the foundation.
• eqb.hplus.ch: The 2024 quality report records a contract with an external advice office acting as ombuds and complaints office.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The client privacy notice, last updated November 2024, names Privatklinik Hohenegg AG as controller, states that data are used only within the clinic, and gives record retention of at least 10 years in the Canton of Zurich with 20 years recommended and transfer of complete records to the Zurich State Archive.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The referrer information publishes the limits: adults up to 64, bipolar disorders outside the mandate, no mother-and-child hospitalisation, and the contraindication list.

C8 Track record and regulator standing · 5

No final court, regulator or tribunal outcome against Privatklinik Hohenegg AG was found within ten years, which places the clinic at band 5. No standing element lifts it: EFQM, Swiss Leading Hospitals recertification and a coding audit are not statutory inspections, and no first-hand bylined reporting from inside the facility or independent review platform profile was captured. The operating company was founded in 2005 as successor to an association dating from 1912.

ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: low

Known gapsFacts the assessment needed but could not establish.:

• The court and regulator search is not represented as an evidence item.

Sources (9 cited items):

• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The clinic fact sheet of February 2026 records that the operating company was founded on 28 September 2005 and opened the clinic on 1 January 2006 as successor organisation of the earlier Hohenegg clinic.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The foundation fact sheet records that the foundation was constituted on 30 April 1975 as legal successor of the association founded in 1912.
• eqb.hplus.ch: The 2024 quality report's certification overview lists EFQM (2024), Swiss Leading Hospitals recertification by SQS on 11 November 2022, REKOLE (2024), SIWF training site category B (2024) and a 2024 coding audit with no objections.
• bger.ch: Search of bger.ch. Scope: "Privatklinik Hohenegg" (certificate error). Result: no record found.
• general web search: Search of a general web search engine. Scope: "Privatklinik Hohenegg" Urteil OR Entscheid OR Gericht OR Beschwerde. Result: no record found.
• general web search: Search of a general web search engine. Scope: "Hohenegg" Meilen Klinik Gesundheitsdirektion Verfahren OR Busse OR Urteil 2020..2026. Result: no record found.
• nzz.ch: Search of nzz.ch. Scope: articleCVFBB-ld.347182 (HTTP 402). Result: no record found.
• press and news search: Search of press and news search. Scope: first-hand bylined reporting from inside the facility, last 5 years. Result: record found: a Tages-Anzeiger article of November 2025, in which a client of the clinic describes treatment for smartphone overuse, was found by search but could not be retrieved (redirect loop), so its byline....
• statutory regulator records: Search of statutory regulator records. Scope: inspection history and grades of this site. Result: no record found.

C9 Environment, safety and nutrition · 5

Environment and safety scores five elements, band 6: a heritage park, fitness room and sauna, a strict alcohol and drug ban, visiting rules, and a 24-hour emergency department at Spital Maennedorf about 10 minutes and 5.4 km by road from Hohenegg 1, Meilen (route derived by the publisher, destination verified on the hospital's own page). No emergency equipment, life-support training, medication storage policy or self-harm risk assessment is published. Nutrition reaches band 3: medical diets on physician order and nutrition counselling on indication, with no named nutrition professional or protocol. The mean of 6 and 3 is 4.5, rounded to 5.

ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium

Known gapsFacts the assessment needed but could not establish.:

• The drive time is derived, not a clinic statement, and does not establish that the hospital takes psychiatric or toxicology emergencies.

Sources (6 cited items):

• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: Stay information for the private wards: the preliminary consultation takes place in the physicians' centre; visits until 22:00 with a visitor room assigned per ward; a strict alcohol and drug ban including alcohol-free imitations; a site plan listing physiotherapy and fitness, reception and dining rooms.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: Stay information for the general ward: visits until 20:00 with a visitor room on the Attika ward; the somatic service arranges physiotherapy or nutrition counselling on medical indication; balanced regional and seasonal meals with a vegetarian option; clients needing a medical diet contact admissions.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: A fitness room, a gender-separated sauna, walking trails, bicycles and mountain bikes, with medical diets available on physician order.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The team page names hospitality roles: head of hospitality, deputy head of hospitality, head of restaurant service and head chef.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: A heritage-protected site with a park and publicly accessible footpaths.
• spitalmaennedorf.ch: Spital Männedorf states "Auf unserer Notfallstation sind wir rund um die Uhr für Sie da!"; Leading Rehabs derived a route of about 10 minutes and 5.4 km by road from Hohenegg 1, 8706 Meilen.

C10 Clinical seniority and academic standing · 6

The team page names the medical director, a deputy medical director, heads of treatment focuses and a large physician and psychologist roster; the clinic states that all physicians are specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy, the medical director's profile gives a specialist title in psychiatry and psychotherapy, and two scientific advisory board members are confirmed as full professors at the University of Zurich. The facility licence is proven on the cantonal hospital list. This supports a specialist-led team with research-active clinicians at band 6; higher bands are not reached because register lookups for the named physicians and psychologists were not retrievable and remain open, and no university affiliation is shown for the medical director or the third advisory board member.

ProvisionalA check was still open when the edition closed, for example a register lookup or a video not yet received, or evidence under embargo.: Clinician register lookups for this criterion were still open at the edition cut-off (see known_gaps). The points count as assessed on the evidence available; the band may change when the lookups are completed, which is resolved in a later edition.

ConfidenceHow well the evidence supports the score.: medium

Known gapsFacts the assessment needed but could not establish.:

• 21 MedReg and 12 PsyReg lookups were not complete at publication; the C10 band may change when they are completed.

Sources (8 cited items):

• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The team page names the medical director and his psychosomatics focus, a deputy medical director and chief physician of the general ward, heads of treatment focuses and ward co-leads, 17 further physicians, 12 psychologists, the nursing director and nursing leads, and a three-member scientific advisory board.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The medical director's profile gives Facharzt FMH für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie with a focus in consultation-liaison psychiatry, and names no university affiliation.
• Privatklinik Hohenegg AG: The clinic fact sheet of February 2026 states that all physicians are specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy.
• zh.ch: Facility licence: the Zurich hospital list 2023 for psychiatry, version 2026.1, in force from 1 January 2026, lists Privatklinik Hohenegg with the operator Privatklinik Hohenegg AG.
• healthreg-public.admin.ch: MedReg practitioner lookups for the named physicians were not retrievable by plain fetch on 15 September 2026; 21 browser lookups remain open.
• healthreg-public.admin.ch: PsyReg practitioner lookups for the named psychologists were not retrievable by plain fetch on 15 September 2026; 12 browser lookups remain open.
• psychologie.uzh.ch: The University of Zurich clinical psychology area page confirms two scientific advisory board members as full professors each heading a clinical psychology chair.
• med.uzh.ch: The University of Zurich Medical Faculty members and emeriti lists carry no entry for the medical director or for the third advisory board member, and the clinic names no university for either, so their professorial rank is not established.