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Admission

What type of room would you like? What should you bring? Who should you inform about your admission? What can you expect during your hospital stay? How does the payment work?

Have you returned from an orange or red area abroad?

There are additional guidelines if you are returning from a red area abroad for planned surgery, a consultation or an examination in UZ Leuven. For anyone returning from an orange area, there are currently no specific guidelines, but we request you to remain cautious.

Screening corona

For certain consultations and admissions you need to come to the hospital for an advance preventive screening for COVID-19. If you need a screening, you will be informed by telephone by the admission department.

Coronavirus: general measures

Read the general guidelines regarding face masks, hand hygiene, keeping your distance and specific measures in the hospital.

Visits and visiting hours

Guidelines for visitors have been made less strict as of 15 September. Please follow the guidelines regarding visits strictly.

Collecting and picking up personal belongings

On the Gasthuisberg campus, you can bring items for hospitalized patients or pick them up at the to-and-from desk. This is only possible on campus Pellenberg during the visiting times.

Arrival

The kiss and ride zone where patients can be picked up or dropped off is located in the visitor car park (follow the blue line).

Taxi services (inclusing secondary transport) are allowed to drop off and collect patients from the central reception hall.

Departure

After admission to a non-COVID-19 ward you can collect the patient at the door of the ward. The kiss-and-ride area in the visitors' parking is at your disposal for this.

  • You can park half an hour for free.
  • Wheelchairs are available from the kiss-and-ride area and in the reception hall.

Registration

When you arrive from the visitors' parking the different flows will be split up in the glass walkway. Follow the signs ‘Day patients, inpatients and visitors’. You will arrive in the reception hall where you can register. You don't have to see reception staff first.

Preparing your admission

Choice of room

Your choice of room has important consequences for your hospital invoice. Depending on the room you choose, additional charges and fees will be calculated.

What should you bring?

Always bring your eID and contact details of a close relative and your doctor. Read what you have to bring to ensure that your admission runs smoothly, what you must bring for your child and what you must do in the event of a work-related accident.

Who should you inform?

Remember to inform your health insurance provider, hospitalisation insurance and your GP as soon as your admission is planned and arranged.

Your stay on the ward

Read more about meals and facilities on the ward.

Going home

Your discharge from the hospital is always determined in consultation with the attending physician. Before your dismissal, clearly discuss which care you need to continue at home.

Paying

You will not need to pay for your admission during your stay in the hospital. There is also no need to pay immediately after your admission: we will send your invoice directly to your health insurance provider and your hospital insurance provider first. You will then receive an invoice for your personal share.

International patients

It is important to make the necessary arrangements in advance with your health insurance policy, so you don't have to waste time on administrative and financial aspects during your admission. Without a payment guarantee or advance we cannot plan a withdrawal for you.

What should you arrange for your admission as an international patient?

More information

Care

Who will you meet during your stay? When are blood samples taken? How do we conduct scientific research through residual material and tissues? What about organ donation?

Your patient record

UZ Leuven keeps a single, central record for every patient, across all specialisms. This record is fully electronic and is drawn up by physicians, nurses and paramedics. Read more about who uses your record, the advantages of a single record and how you can get access to your own record.

Quality and safety

Learn how we make our care as safe as possible and how you can help us.

House rules

Smoking ban - Alcohol and drugs - Pets - Photography, video and audio recordings
Last edit: 31 August 2020