Hospital and Medical Hub: Nancy Brabois Regional Hospital University Teaching Centre in the Urban Community of Greater Nancy

CHRU, CHU, CHR: 40 medical specialities: organ and tissue transplants, cardio-paediatric surgery, neuro-vascular emergencies, retina, cell therapy, bone marrow transplants, brain surgery

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Nancy Train Station District

Rives de Meurthe District

Nancy Brabois Science Park

Hospital University Teaching

In 2004, the Regional University teaching Hospital (CHRU) saw over 111,748 patients, for a total of 534,563 hospitalisation days, with the average stay lasting 5.14 days.

60% of the patients came from the Meurthe-et-Moselle area.

In the same year, 68,463 patients came to the Emergency Room and 13,844 were hospitalised following this. Nearly 8,000 people work there, including 1,000 physicians and 2,000 nurses.

A budget exceeding 538 million euros
2,073 beds
62 operating rooms
25 radiotherapy rooms where 12,500 IRMs and 57,000 CAT-scans were carried out.

A Medical Excellence Centre

The medical renown of the Nancy CHRU extends far beyond our region's borders. It is an innovative establishment that has succeeded in developing highly-specialised skills, recognised at the international level. It can be seen, in particular, in the following areas :

- Organ and tissue transplants

- Cardio-paediatric surgery

- Neuro-vascular emergencies

- Retinal surgery

- Cell and bone marrow therapy

- Brain surgery.

The Nancy CHRU was one of France's first establishments to buy PET Scan equipment and a cyclotron, a tool offering images of rare precision in locating cancerous tumours. An ultra-modern neurology ward and a cardio-paediatric surgery unit have just been created.

The Nancy CHRU does not attract patients alone : future physicians also sing its praises for the quality of its medical training.

Alongside the healthcare and educational services, the CHRU takes part in a large number of research programmes, which already yield discoveries that impact everyday patient care.

Building the Hospital of the Future

The Nancy CHRU operates in nearly 40 medical disciplines, spread over 8 sites. It covers a total of 140 hectares of land in the metropolitan area.

The CHRU now wishes to reorganise its activities into several divisions, by bringing most of them together on the Brabois and Central sites. The oldest sites (Marin Hospital and Maringer, Fournier and Villemin hospitals) and those located outside the Greater Nancy (Lay-Saint-Christophe and Dommartin-lès-Toul) will be freed up. Studies are already being carried out to put site conversion and development potential into perspective.

The new structure comes in response to two major objectives :

- Economic efficiency : optimising resources (human, material, equipment) and minimising patient travel.

- Medical efficiency : improving the quality of healthcare through better consideration for healthcare requirements and medical progress.

110,000 m² of additional useable space is planned by 2020, including 65,000 m² by 2010. The Cardiology Unit is one of the flagship projects. With capacity of 273 beds, it will house several operating rooms, resuscitation, anaesthesia, endoscopy and radiology activities in a new building. It is expected to be operational by 2010.

Lastly, the hospital's future will be governed by an urban revamping project, which calls for more extensive parking facilities (over 1,000 spaces on the Brabois site, at the southwest entrance to the Greater Nancy).