IMAD - Institution Genevoise de Maintien à Domicile

IMAD provides care, assistance, and support services that enable people to remain in their own homes and maintain their independence.
These services are provided at home, in home care centers and their branches, and in intermediate facilities, in collaboration with the attending physician, family, and loved ones. Our objectives

 

• to reduce the length of your hospital stay or avoid it altogether

• promote your recovery

• Delay or even avoid your placement or that of your children in an institution

• to listen to your caregiver.

 

Our services

• Nursing care (nursing care is provided only on the basis of a medical prescription and/or a medical mandate):

• preventive (health checks), educational, curative (injections, dressings), palliative (pain management)

• basic care (help with washing, getting up and going to bed

• 24/7 home hospitalization

• Hospital/home liaison and needs assessment

• Practical assistance with daily activities

• Reaching out to family, friends, and social circles

• Support for parents, supervision, care for sick children, and weekly parent-child consultations

• Occupational therapy (occupational therapy services are provided only on the basis of a medical prescription and/or medical mandate): rehabilitation, prevention, and environmental adaptation

• Health promotion, disease and accident prevention initiatives

• Home meal delivery and organization of group meals at a local restaurant

• Home safety: emergency call system and light signaling

• Local support and night-time presence in buildings with support

• Temporary accommodation for people of retirement age whose natural caregiver is temporarily unavailable, with staff who have solid experience in geriatric care

• Comprehensive response to social emergencies

• 7 days a week, from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. on weekdays and 24 hours a day on weekends and public holidays.

Our professionals

Services are provided by a multidisciplinary team led by a manager. Each team is made up of home helpers, family helpers, nursing assistants, community health care assistants (ASSC), social security workers, occupational therapists, nurses, and clinical nurses. These teams interact with professionals from intermediate structures: stewards and social managers, night staff, and those from specific programs: HAD (home hospitalization), UMUS (mobile social emergency unit), meals and dietetics.

Our partners
We work on a daily basis with the attending physician, the healthcare network, the client's family, relatives, and friends, local authorities, and community organizations.

Find us, contact us
Every day of the year, 24 hours a day, IMAD professionals are available in the canton of Geneva and a hotline is available at 022 420 20 00.

IMAD welcomes you to its four home care centers, regardless of where you live:

• Bachet Home Care Center
  Avenue Cardinal Mermillod 36 – 1227 Carouge
  Tel.: 022 420 20 11 – Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Pâquis Home Care Center
  Rue de Lausanne 45-47a – 1201 Geneva
  Tel.: 022 420 20 12 – Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

• Eaux-Vives Home Care Center
  Rue des Vollandes 38 – 1207 Geneva
  Tel.: 022 420 20 13 – Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

• Onex Home Care Center
  98 rte de Chancy – 1213 Onex
  Tel.: 022 420 20 14 – Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.