TCS Ambulance Opens New Base in Bern
26.11.2025 | from Touring Club Suisse (TCS)
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26.11.2025, Following Biel, TCS Ambulance Services Mittelland opens a second base in the canton of Bern. The subsidiary, specializing in medical transport, was founded just over a year ago and now also operates from the city of Bern. The TCS Ambulance Group is the largest national terrestrial organization in the field of emergency rescue and patient transport, now boasting 23 bases across Switzerland.
In autumn 2024, TCS Ambulance's first specially founded subsidiary for medical transport began operations in the Biel-Seeland region. After a successful development of business activities and an increased volume of operations, expansion is set to occur just a year later: From December, the company will operate from an additional base in the city of Bern. 'Demand in the city and agglomeration of Bern is high,' comments Philippe Klaus, CEO of TCS Ambulance. 'Proximity to our clients such as hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes is very important.' The subsidiary has 20 employees. Nationwide, the TCS Ambulance Group employs around 400 people across seven companies.
Guidelines of the Canton
The separation of emergency rescue transports and simpler patient transports meets a directive in the canton of Bern. For this reason, Spitalzentrum Biel AG partnered with TCS Ambulance and founded in 2024 the TCS Ambulance Services Mittelland AG. Since then, the newly founded company has primarily been active in the Biel-Seeland region for secondary patient transports in categories S3 and S4. An S3 transport refers to a scheduled transfer of stable patients with low risk of health deterioration; S4 transport is categorised as the transfer of a stable patient without risk of deterioration and without medical monitoring apparatus.
About TCS Ambulance
TCS Ambulance is the largest national terrestrial organization in the field of emergency rescue and patient transport. It operates in nine cantons - Aargau, Basel-Landschaft, Bern, Lucerne, Zug, Zurich, Vaud, Geneva, and Fribourg - and now operates from 23 bases with approximately 45,000 deployments annually. TCS Ambulance employs 400 staff throughout Switzerland.
For over 60 years, TCS has been active in the medical field, in particular through medical advice and repatriations associated with the ETI protection letter. Thanks to TCS support, the University of Bern established an assistant professorship for tele-emergency medicine in 2019. TCS operates the independent medical information site tcs-mymed.ch.
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Since its founding in 1896 in Geneva, the Touring Club Suisse has been serving the Swiss population. It is committed to safety, sustainability, and self-determination in personal mobility, both politically and socially. With more than 2000 employees and 23 regional sections, Switzerland's largest mobility club offers its over 1.6 million members a wide range of services related to mobility, health, and leisure activities.
Every 70 seconds, help is provided. Annually, 200 patrol officers perform about 361,000 operations on Swiss roads, enabling immediate continuation in more than 80% of cases. The ETI Center organizes around 63,000 assistance services annually, including 3500 medical clarifications and over 1300 repatriations. TCS Ambulance is the largest private player for rescue service and patient transport in Switzerland with 400 employees, 22 logistics bases, and around 45,000 deployments per year. The legal protection offices handle 52,000 cases and provide around 10,000 legal consultations.
Since 1908, TCS has been committed to safer mobility - made possible thanks to membership. It develops educational materials, awareness and prevention campaigns, tests mobility infrastructures, and advises authorities. Each year, TCS distributes around 115,000 luminous belts and 90,000 reflective vests to children, ensuring that their mobility is also safe. The training centres annually account for 42,000 training and further education participants in all vehicle categories.
With 32 sites and about 900,000 overnight stays, TCS is also Switzerland's largest provider of camping facilities. The Mobility Academy of TCS researches and designs transformations in transport, such as the vertical mobility of drones or shared mobility, e.g., with the 400 electric cargo bikes 'carvelo' and 43,000 users. TCS is a co-signatory of the Roadmap Electromobility 2025.
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Source: Touring Club Suisse (TCS), Press release
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