Hirslanden Klinik.

A different category

Hirslanden is the Swiss private hospital group — sixteen sites, several thousand beds — and the Longevity Health Check it runs out of its Zürich and Aarau locations is, structurally, a different proposition to anything in this directory.

You are not at a clinic. You are at a hospital that has decided to take the longevity question seriously, partly because its existing patients started asking it. That distinction shapes everything.

What you get

The base programme, at roughly CHF 6,500, runs across one or two days and includes the diagnostic spread you would expect from a 3T MRI hospital: whole-body imaging, cardiac MRI, coronary calcium scoring, the full oncology screen, deep bloodwork. The cardiology component is unusually rigorous — coronary calcium combined with cardiac MRI is a more complete assessment than most longevity-only clinics bother with.

The treatment side is conservative. Peptides and hormone optimisation are available, selectively, by referral inside the network. NAD+ infusions are administered. But the marketing energy is on diagnosis, not prescription, and the practice reflects it.

Where it earns the bill

Three patient profiles in particular:

• The forty-five-plus reader with a family cardiac history. Hirslanden’s cardiology workup is the most rigorous in Europe within this price band. The coronary calcium plus cardiac MRI pairing is, on its own, worth the visit.
• The patient with a vague but persistent symptom. The hospital infrastructure means abnormal findings get triaged in days, not weeks. We’ve watched it happen.
• The second-opinion patient. If a Lausanne or Mayfair clinic has flagged something, Hirslanden is a credible place to verify it without the marketing surcharge.

Where it doesn’t

Hirslanden is the wrong choice for the reader who wants the experience of longevity medicine. There are no welcome rituals, no lakeside lunches, no second-by-second concierge. There is a hospital, with hospital flooring, and a doctor who runs late because something genuinely came up.

Many readers will prefer this. Many will not.

The verdict

If you suspect there is something to find, find it here. If you suspect there is nothing to find but want a programme, Clinique La Prairie and YEARS Evolve both compose the day better.

A hospital is the right setting for a serious answer. It is also a hospital.