admissions desk

16:29 May 5, 2010 

Thanks ;-)

16:21 May 5, 2010 

is kinda difficult as both girls have got both parts of the answer correct.
BTW, Katja, your new photo is just great (Susanne, yours already was a great one)!

15:11 May 5, 2010 

I'd call it Empfang and in hospital (Patienten-)aufnahme

15:01 May 5, 2010 

Thank you for clarifying that "admissions desk" refers to hospitals, I wasn't aware of this. I think "(bei der) Patientenaufnahme" is a good solution when describing the process in hospitals, and for the work station in hospitals "Empfang" or "Rezeption" seems fine. So the question remains: What do you call the reception desk at your doctor's office? "Empfang"?

09:07 May 5, 2010 

With Armorel. Admissions clearly = Aufnahme, but in a clinic often the actual "admission" has already been effected via a referral or over the phone, and the actual "admissions desk" is much of a "reception desk" in *that* context. Put some sort of disambiguation note in your glossary?

08:36 May 5, 2010 

I would say that Susanne's quotation gives us a clue. The new patient can acquire his or her telephone either at the reception desk (in the foyer of the hospital) where not only patients but all visitors are "received" (= Empfang), or later on when he or she is actually officially "aufgenommen" or admitted for the hospital stay. This usually happens in a separate office near the Empfang, or might even be on the ward (I seem to remember we had a KudoZ question recently referring to the Schwestern-Stützpunkt?) but what is its name?
"Bei der Aufnahme" may not be a geographical term at all but a temporal one meaning "during the registration process" .

08:14 May 5, 2010 

It isn't clear to me what is required here - "admissions" refers quite specifically to someone who is being admitted to a hospital or clinic as an in-patient (so it is hard to see how an Arztpraxis could have an admissions desk, since presumably they aren't admitting people as in-patients). If you are just arriving for an outpatient or doctor's appointment, then you would go to "reception" or the "reception desk".