Spitex approved under basic insuranceZurich · Aargau · Schwyz · St. Gallen
As a Spitex approved under basic insurance, we bill your relative’s health insurer for the basic care you provide. In return, you receive pay of up to CHF 35.00 gross per hour – depending on the canton of the person you care for. You are also covered by social insurance and supported by a qualified nurse.
Free and without obligation – together we look at whether we can employ you.
With professional support
How you get employed
From the first conversation to your first pay, we are with you personally.
Call us on 044 500 49 27 or sign up online. We talk about your situation and answer your questions – with no obligation.
A qualified nurse assesses the care needs together with you and your relative – using the interRAI HC Schweiz instrument. This sets how much basic care is paid for.
You receive an employment contract with Spitex Medimex. Your nurse introduces you to the care and shows you how to keep the care records.
You care for your relative and receive your pay every month. Your nurse is there for you – on the phone and in person.
What you get
You provide the care, we provide the framework: pay, insurance, training and a qualified nurse at your side.
Up to CHF 35.00 gross per hour – depending on the canton of the person you care for – for the basic care you provide, no more than the hours set in the assessment. Paid every month.
You are covered by AHV/IV/EO (old-age and survivors’ insurance, disability insurance and income compensation) and unemployment insurance, and insured against occupational accidents. From 8 hours a week also against non-occupational accidents, and in the pension fund from an annual wage of CHF 22’680 (2026).
You do not need a nursing diploma: we introduce you to the care. If you take a care assistant course – compulsory within the first 12 months in the cantons of Zurich and Aargau – we pay for it up front and cover half of the cost; your share is deducted from your wage in agreed monthly amounts.
A qualified nurse is there for you: they call you at least every 2 weeks and visit you at least once a month – more often if needed.
Need a break, for example for a holiday or when you are ill? We plan cover with you – where possible with Spitex Medimex staff.
Daily care records, regular calls and visits and a new assessment at least every 6 months ensure the quality of care.
Basic care
You are paid for helping with tasks your relative can no longer manage alone because of illness, as defined in the Swiss Health Insurance Benefits Ordinance (Art. 7 para. 2 let. c no. 1 KLV):
A qualified nurse sets them during the assessment at your home – based on the time an outside carer would need. Basic care does not require a doctor’s order; we send the result of the assessment to your family doctor for information.
If your relative needs treatment care, our qualified nurses provide it.
Who can be employed
Relatives include family members, spouses and partners, and people from your close circle. What matters is not whether you are related, but that you already support your relative regularly and reliably today and take responsibility for them.
You can combine the employment with an existing job.
Who counts as a relative?Professional Spitex as well
Preparing medication, dressing wounds, giving injections: the qualified nurses of Spitex Medimex take care of this. You provide the basic care, we provide the treatment care – everything from one provider.
Care aids
Together with VivitaCare, you can rent or buy care aids for use at home.
Care aids from VivitaCare (opens in a new window)Frequently asked questions
The key answers about family caregiving. We are happy to talk through everything else with you in person.
You receive a wage of up to CHF 35.00 gross per hour – depending on the canton of the person you care for. You are paid for the basic care you provide – up to the time a qualified nurse sets in the assessment at your home. Your wage is paid every month.
Family members, spouses and partners, and people from your close circle. What matters is not being related, but that you already support the person you care for regularly and reliably and take responsibility for them. You must be at least 18 years old.
You are paid for basic care under Art. 7 para. 2 let. c no. 1 KLV: help with activities that the person you care for can no longer do on their own because of their illness – for example personal hygiene, dressing and undressing, eating and drinking, positioning and mobilisation.
Not paid: treatment care (such as preparing medication, dressing wounds, giving injections), companionship and support, housework and simply being present. Treatment care is provided by our qualified nurses.
Yes, it contributes to basic care. Since the Federal Supreme Court ruling of 18 April 2019 (BGE 145 V 161, 9C_187/2019), it has been clear: relatives employed by a Spitex organisation may provide basic care even without nursing training. The Spitex organisation must support and supervise them professionally.
As a Spitex organisation approved under basic health insurance, Spitex Medimex bills your relative’s health insurer directly. You receive your wage from us.
For your relative, the same applies as with any Spitex service: the deductible, the co-payment and the cantonal patient contribution – even if you have so far cared for them without pay. You will find the amounts for each canton on the Spitex Medimex prices page.
Prices and patient contribution by canton (opens in a new window)
Free and without obligation
Call us or sign up online. Together we will look at whether we can employ you – personally and without obligation.
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