HUS hospitals run emergency clinics providing specialist medical care to children and adolescents as well as emergency health centers.
Emergency clinics providing specialist medical care
The New Children’s Hospital and Jorvi, Hyvinkää, Länsi-Uusimaa and Porvoo Hospitals run emergency clinics providing specialist medical care. As a rule, patients need a referral for these emergency services.
In emergencies (severe shortness of breath, profuse bleeding from a large cut, or a seizure), call the emergency number 112. Paramedics will assess the care need and take the patient to the appropriate care facility.
Emergency health centers
During office hours, the primary care facility for a child or an adolescent with an acute illness is the local health center. Outside office hours, emergency care is available without a referral in the emergency health centers at the hospitals. The New Children’s Hospital and Jorvi and Porvoo Hospitals offer emergency helath center services to children and adolescents outside office hours. At Peijas and Hyvinkää Hospitals, emergency health center services are available around the clock.
Patients arriving without a referral will be assessed for care needs by a triage nurse, who will instruct the patient to see a GP (at the local health center during office hours, or an emergency health center outside office hours) or a nurse, or to attend an emergency clinic providing specialist medical care. Patients not requiring emergency care are instructed to visit their local health center.
When to contact emergency service
Emergency services are intended for patients who cannot wait until the next day or over the weekend to get treatment. If a baby aged 3 months and under has a fever, it is always advisable to contact emergency service. However, a child suffering from earache does not need constitute an emergency at night; it is better to give the child pain medication and contact the local health centre in the morning.
Medical Helpline 116 117
You can call the toll-free number 116 117 before you go to the emergency clinic. During office hours, the primary care facility with an acute illness is the local health center. When your local health center is closed, you can call Medical Helpline 116117 in sudden health issues. Medical Helpline will instruct you to the correct place of care and give advice on self-care. Medical Helpline answers 24/7.
Waiting periods
During peak hours, visitors may have to wait a long time for emergency service. Patients are treated according to the urgency of care need, not on a first-come first-served basis. Any examinations or tests, such as blood samples, also take time to be completed and processed. In many cases, it is also important to monitor the child's condition before a decision is made on further care or procedures required.
Clinical units
Please check each hospital’s emergency services site for more detailed information on service provision arrangements.
Hyvinkää Hospital |
- Emergency health center around the clock for Hyvinkää residents, also to other people in the hospital area from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m.
- Emergency clinic providing specialist medical care (pediatrics) around the clock
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| Jorvi Hospital |
- Joint emergency services including specialist medical care (pediatrics and surgery) around the clock, and a GP emergency health center on weekdays from 4 p.m. to 8 a.m., on weekends around the clock.
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| Länsi-Uusimaa Hospital |
- Emergency clinic providing specialist medical care around the clock
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| New Children's Hospital |
- Emergency health center on weeknights and on weekends
- Emergency clinic providing specialist medical care (pediatrics, pediatric surgery, pediatric neurology, pediatric psychiatry, adolescent psychiatry) open around the clock
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| Peijas Hospital |
- Emergency health center from 4 p.m. to 8 a.m. on weekends around the clock
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Porvoo Hospital |
- Emergency health center available from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
- Emergency clinic providing specialist medical care around the clock
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