Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital

Coordinates: 48°50′42″N 2°18′56″E / 48.84500°N 2.31556°E / 48.84500; 2.31556
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Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital
Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris
Map
Geography
Location149 rue de Sèvres
75015 Paris, France
Organisation
TypeTeaching
Affiliated universityUniversity of Paris
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds600
SpecialityPediatrics
History
Opened1920 by merger of Necker Hospital (founded 1778) and Sick Children's Hospital (founded 1801)
Links
Websitehopital-necker.aphp.fr
ListsHospitals in France

The Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital (

Suzanne Necker, with the physically contiguous Sick Children's Hospital (Hôpital des Enfants Malades), the oldest children's hospital in the Western world
, founded in 1801.

History

The Hôpital Necker was founded in 1778 by Madame Necker, born

Madame de Stael and wife of Jacques Necker, minister of Louis XVI. Jacques Necker was a leader in the movement to reform crowded hospitals by building smaller treatment centers closer to the patients' neighborhoods. Madame Necker subsequently remodeled an old monastery into the hospital,[1] which prior to the French Revolution was known as the Hospice de Charité. It was a Catholic institution where a baptism certificate and a confession were requirements for admission. Many poor parishioners would come to the hospital for their last rites before death. Hospitals at the time were seen as "gates to heaven" which were run by the Catholic Sisters of Charity, rather than the scientific institutions run by doctors they would later become.[1] Male and female patients were kept separate from each other, as many hospitals of the time did. Triage procedures, established all over Paris in 1802, systematically excluded pregnant women, the mentally ill, and venereal patients. Patients were divided into four categories: fever, malignant fever, surgical, and convalescent.[2]

The Hôpital des Enfants Malades (Hospital for Sick Children), not to be confused with the foundling hospital, the Hôpital des Enfants Trouvés, was created by the Conseil général des Hospices (General Hospices Council) in January 1801 to help manage the health and social structures of Paris. With the aim of reorganising the hospital, the Council proposed a new classification based on the common distinction between hospitals and special hospitals and announced the creation of a hospital "for the children of both sexes under the age of fifteen years" (4 December 1801). The newly formed Hôpital des Enfants Malades opened in June 1802 on the site of the previous orphanage hospital Hôpital de l'Enfant Jésus ("Baby Jesus hospital"). It was the first paediatric hospital in the Western world.[3]

The two physically contiguous hospitals were merged in 1920, but the Necker division continued to care for adults and Enfants malades for children.[citation needed]

Mural

Main article: Tower (Keith Haring)

In 1987, American artist,

Centre Pompidou.[5][6]

The stairwell became derelict over time and paint worn off and was condemned by hospital's administrators.[7] However, it was conserved and fully restored in September 2017. The attached surgery center the stairwell had once attached to had been demolished and a new hospital building had been constructed. The mural now stands as a "totem" and centerpiece of the hospital gardens.[7]

Famous Physicians

French physician

Phthisis pulmonalis.[9] This was because Laennec discovered with his stethoscope that patients who developed the disease first displayed a particular irregularity how their voices were manifested within their bodies, thus allowing patients to be diagnosed earlier.[10]

Among eminent physicians working at the Hôpital des Enfants Malades were Auguste Chaillou, Eugène Bouchut, Director Jacques-Joseph Grancher), Director Victor Henri Hutinel, Eugène Apert and Édouard Kirmisson.

Gallery

  • The entrance of Hôpital des Enfants malades in Rue de Sèvres.
    The entrance of Hôpital des Enfants malades in Rue de Sèvres.
  • Laennec's memorial tablet in the front of the old hospital. "Here, Laennec discovered the Stethoscope".
    Laennec's memorial tablet in the front of the old hospital. "Here, Laennec discovered the Stethoscope".
  • Entrance of the historical Necker hospital ("Carré Necker").
    Entrance of the historical Necker hospital ("Carré Necker").

See also

References

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  3. ISBN 0-88167-695-0
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  4. ^ Juliette Hardy & Marine Leroy. "PRESS RELEASE: Inauguration of "Tower", the restored tower of the American artist Keith Haring, thanks to the support of numerous sponsors and partners" (PDF).
  5. ^ "The complex preservation of Keith Haring's 1987 mural at the Hopital Necker des Enfants Malades, Paris by Will Shank + Antonio Rava | International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works". www.iiconservation.org. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  6. ^ "Paris Mural | Keith Haring". www.haring.com. Retrieved 2018-05-26.
  7. ^ a b Sulcas, Roslyn (7 September 2017). "An 88-Foot-High Keith Haring Mural Is Restored in Paris". The New York Times.
  8. PMID 17048358
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  9. ISBN 978-0-521-27205-6
    . "The relevance of the hospital to his work was obvious; so was the relevance of the work to the hospital, where Bayle had reported, of 696 deaths, 244 were from phthisis.
  10. ^ Laennec, René (1962). A Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest. New York: Hafner Publishing Company. pp. 297–301.

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