Mottagningens

Mottagningens denotes the genitive form of mottagning, a Swedish noun with several related senses. In healthcare, mottagning often refers to an outpatient department or the reception area of a clinic or hospital. The possessive form mottagningens is used to indicate ownership or association, such as mottagningens öppettider (the clinic's opening hours), mottagningens personal (the clinic's staff), or mottagningens lokaler (the clinic's facilities). It is common in administrative texts, signage, and forms.

In practice, a mottagning can function as the first point of contact for patients, including triage, registration, and scheduling, and may comprise professionals such as doctors, nurses, and reception staff. Within hospital organization, separate mottagningar may exist for different specialties (for example a family medicine mottagning or a dermatology mottagning), each with its own routines and opening hours; the possessive form would apply to descriptions of their operations.

Origin: mottagning comes from the verb mottaga, meaning to receive, and the suffix -ning forms nouns indicating a process or place. The genitive ending -ens marks possession.

Usage notes: Outside healthcare, mottagning can also mean reception in the sense of receiving guests or events, where mottagningens logistik or mottagningens program would appear in notices.

See also: mottagning, mottagningar.