American Hospital Paris

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The American Hospital Paris

The American Hospital Paris ( French Hôpital américain de Paris , English American Hospital of Paris ) is a well-known private hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine , only 3.1 kilometers west of the French capital ( calculated from the Triumphal Arch ).

history

On July 3, 1907, AJ Magnin and others acquired the property, in September 1909 the hospital, initially with only 24 beds, was ready for operation, on October 28, 1909 the opening took place in the presence of the American ambassador Henry White . American citizens no longer wanted to accept the poor hygiene conditions in French hospitals. On March 19, 1918, the clinic was licensed by the French authorities ( French Reconnaissance d'utilité publique ) and later examined by the United States' Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations . The hospital was the site of the Neuilly-sur-Seine Treaty , which was signed here on November 27, 1919. The bypass operation was first used in 1948 at the Hôpital américain de Paris . She served the Red Cross in both world wars . The associated foundation was established in New York in 1976 . In 1979, 74 beds and facilities for in vitro fertilization and prenatal diagnosis were added.

While it served the US Army as a military hospital during World War I , it was used by the French under German occupation during World War II . Thanks to generous donations, a pavilion with 24 beds became a 190-bed hospital. On April 5, 2012, Romy Schneider's former lover Alain Delon was released after a heart operation; she herself had been treated in an American hospital in March 1961. Every year around 36,000 patients from around 100 countries are treated here. Prominent patients such as Gertrude Stein , Georges Bernanos , Aristotle Onassis , François Truffaut , Bette Davis , Philippe de Broca , Angus Maddison , France Gall and Karl Lagerfeld spent their last hours in the hospital.

Today's organization

The operator is a non-profit organization that does not depend financially on either the US or the French side, but is financed through donations . The clinic now has 197 beds and over 400 doctors from all specialties treat the patients.

literature

  • Charles Glass: Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-44 . HarperCollins, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-00-722853-9 .
  • Dorothée Lagard: American Hospital of Paris 1906-2006. A century of adventures . Le Cercle midi, Paris 2006, ISBN 978-2-7491-0844-5 .
  • Hal W. Vaughan: Doctor to the Resistance: The Heroic True Story of an American Surgeon and His Family in Occupied Paris . Potomac Books, Dulles 2004, ISBN 978-1-57488-774-7 .
  • Michael Kleeberg: The American Hospital. Novel. DVA, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-421-04390-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Povacz: history of trauma . 2007, p. 360
  2. ↑ Healing on Credit Card . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1978, p. 116 ( online ).

Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 34 ″  N , 2 ° 16 ′ 21 ″  E