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Crestcare Malmesbury Contact Details

Verified 3 September 2026Official source onlyIndependent directoryReport a wrong number

Crestcare Malmesbury is a private hospital on Piketberg Road in Malmesbury, serving the Swartland. It publishes separate numbers for emergencies and for admissions, and the emergency line has two alternatives, which is worth noting before you need it.

Official contact channels

Save both emergency numbers rather than one. The 087 line is a voice-over-IP number and the 022 line is a Swartland landline, so if a network problem affects one there is a second route to the same emergency unit.

What this organisation provides

  • An 84-bed private hospital with a 24-hour emergency unit
  • Four operating theatres, including a laminar flow theatre used for procedures needing the cleanest air, such as joint replacement
  • Surgical and medical disciplines including general surgery, neurosurgery, cardiology and ophthalmology
  • Obstetrics and gynaecology
  • Dermatology, ear nose and throat, and general medicine
  • On-site radiology through SCP Radiology and pathology through Pathcare

Radiology and pathology are provided by separate companies working on site. That matters for billing: scans and laboratory tests are usually invoiced by those providers rather than by the hospital, so a single admission can produce several accounts.

Address and operating information

  • Piketberg Road, Malmesbury, 7300, in the Swartland region of the Western Cape
  • General visiting hours: 10:30 to 11:30, 15:00 to 16:00 and 19:00 to 20:00
  • The emergency unit operates continuously, unlike the visiting windows
  • Admissions are handled at a dedicated desk with its own number
  • The hospital publishes a patient and visitor guide on its website

The three visiting windows are short, the morning one only an hour. If family are travelling from Cape Town or the surrounding farms, the afternoon slot is the most practical to aim for.

Support and escalation routes

  • Account and admission queries: the admissions desk on 087 210 0100
  • Complaints: the hospital manager at hospitalmanager@crestcare.co.za, which puts it in writing
  • Confirm pre-authorisation with your medical scheme before an elective admission, and check whether this hospital is in your scheme network
  • Complaints about the standard of care go to the Office of Health Standards Compliance and the Health Ombud
  • Conduct by a named practitioner is a matter for the HPCSA or the South African Nursing Council
  • Disputes about what a medical scheme will pay go to the Council for Medical Schemes

Ask whether every practitioner treating you charges at your scheme rate. Specialists at a private hospital bill independently of the hospital, and a surgeon or anaesthetist charging above scheme rates is the usual source of an unexpected shortfall.

Sources

  • Crestcare Malmesbury hospital page, crestcare.co.za, read 4 September 2026