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Orthopedic Department, Arendal

Orthopedists investigate and treat diseases, injuries, and malalignments in the body's musculoskeletal system. Activities include acute injury and fracture treatment, and planned procedures such as hip and knee prostheses, microsurgery for disc herniation in the back, and arthroscopic surgery in the knees and shoulders.

Contact

Telephone

Postal address

P.O. Box 416 Lundsiden, 4604 Kristiansand

Email

postmottak@sshf.no

How to find us

Meeting point

Orthopedic outpatient clinic, 1st floor in the main building of the hospital, E-Wing.
Sørlandet sykehus Arendal sett fra luften.

Sørlandet Hospital Arendal

Hospital Road 1

Hospital Road 1, 4838 Arendal

Find your way

You can reach our locations by public transport. Go to Agder public transport to find your route:akt.no

You may be entitled to have necessary expenses covered when traveling to and from the treatment location.

You should initially use public transport, and you must pay a deductible. To get reimbursement for expenses incurred during the trip, you must fill out a travel expense form and send it toPatient travel.

Practical information

At the hospital pharmacy in Arendal, you can drop off prescriptions and purchase pharmacy goods.
You will find us on the 1st floor of the main building, just inside the entrance.
Open every weekday from 08:30-16:00.

Hospital Pharmacy Arendal

Does the appointment not work? Now, if you receive the letter of invitation digitally on helsenorge.no, you can directly message the department you are going to if you need a new time for the appointment. You must be a registered user on helsenorge to access the service.
You can also contact the department where you have an appointment or call the switchboard on the phone: 38 07 30 00
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Children and young people are affected when someone in the family is ill and needs to understand what is happening. It may be that you yourself are a patient, a caregiver, or that you are a parent of sick children with siblings. We at the hospital will contribute to ensuring that children and young people in your family are well cared for.

Children as caregivers

The patient library in Arendal is located in the basement of the main building. It is self-service and open 24 hours a day. Here you can borrow books and read newspapers and magazines.

Many people want to give a floral greeting when visiting a patient at the hospital, but due to allergies and infection risk, several of our departments are flower-free. We appreciate it if you who want to bring a gift to the patient choose something other than flowers.

Some patients also react allergically to perfume or creams with perfume. We ask that this be taken into consideration.

Have you worked in healthcare or received healthcare outside of Scandinavia in the last year?

For example, this could be hospitalization, extensive outpatient treatment, or a visit to the dentist. Then your family doctor must test you for bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics (for example, MRSA).

Ask your family doctor to send you the test results before your appointment with us and bring them with you when you come to the hospital.

For day stays or hospitalizations, we ask you to bring the following to the hospital:

  • Bring indoor shoes, a change of clothes, and toiletries
  • Bring your regular medication. It may take time to obtain the equivalent medication from the pharmacy.
  • Bring a medication list/overview of your regular medications
  • Medical equipment for daily use

Kiosk
The kiosk is located in the vestibule on the 1st floor.

Here you can buy kiosk items such as newspapers, weekly magazines, fruit, chocolate, cookies, ice cream, soft drinks, cards, flowers, some toiletries, and various souvenirs.

In addition, you can buy buns, chicken wraps, rolls, salads, calzones, paninis, and sausages.

Opening hours:
Monday-Friday: 07:00-21:00
Saturday and Sunday: 09:00-20:00

If you have a serious illness that needs to be treated or followed up for a certain period, you may be entitled to be assigned a contact physician in specialist healthcare services.

Contact physician in specialist healthcare services is a scheme that aims to ensure that follow-up of you as a patient becomes better, safer, and more efficient. A contact physician is a right for you as a patient and an obligation for specialist healthcare services.

Contact physician's tasks

The contact physician has a special responsibility to follow you up during treatment or follow-up in specialist healthcare services. The tasks of the contact physician are to:

  • be your fixed medical contact throughout the patient's course
  • be involved in the treatment or follow-up of you
  • stay informed about the status of your treatment
  • contribute to ensuring that the patient's course goes as planned
  • contact relevant personnel / treatment unit if there are challenges with your patient's course
  • inform you and relatives
  • be available to you and healthcare personnel in medical questions
  • contact physician does not replace your family doctor

Guidelines for contact physician in specialist healthcare services

 

Smoking can cause discomfort to others. Thank you for showing consideration and contributing to Sørlandet Hospital being a smoke-free hospital environment.

The service desk in Arendal is located right by the main entrance. Here you can contact us with questions about your appointment at the hospital.

Opening hours:
Weekdays: 07:00-21:00.
Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays: 09:00-20:00.

If you need an interpreter, you must notify the hospital of this well in advance of the appointment. Expenses for the interpreter are covered by the healthcare service.Helsenorge.no

Patients not fluent in Norwegian are entitled to an interpreter.Helsenorge.no/interpreter