| CHU UCLouvain Namur | |
|---|---|
| University of Louvain | |
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 Sedes Sapientiae, seal of UCLouvain | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Namur,Belgium |
| Coordinates | 50°21′29″N4°52′57″E / 50.358129°N 4.882544°E /50.358129; 4.88254450°51′07.4″N04°27′08.5″E / 50.852056°N 4.452361°E /50.852056; 4.452361 |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Private non-profit (ASBL) |
| Funding | Government hospital |
| Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | UCLouvain |
| Network | Réseau Santé Louvain |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 936[1] |
| Helipad | Yes |
| History | |
| Opened | 2015 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.chuuclnamur.be |
| Other links | List of hospitals in Belgium |
TheCHU UCLouvain Namur orCHU UCL Namur (also calledUCLouvain Namur by theUniversity of Louvain[2] and officially namedCentre hospitalier universitaire Dinant Godinne Saint-Elisabeth - UCL-Namur)[3] is ageneral hospital with academic beds located in the cities ofNamur,Dinant,Yvoir andCiney, in theBelgian province ofNamur. Established in 2015, it is UCLouvain's second hospital.[3]
CHU UCLouvain Namur counts 4.996 employees,[4] making it the largest employer in theNamur province.[5] It is part of the Réseau Santé Louvain network of hospitals.
The psychiatric hospital of Beau Vallon, established inSaint-Servais in 1914, is also part of theSaint-Luc - UCLouvain hospital group as well as the UCLouvain Namur site, as a training centre for medical assistants since 1974, and as a research centre inpsychiatric medicine.[11]
The Saint-Elisabeth nursing school (today called the ECNAS,École Namuroise de soins Sainte-Élisabeth) was founded byroyal decree in 1922, by theSisters of Charity in the village of Salzinnes, on Charles Zoude street,[7] which still today leads to the Sainte-Élisabeth site. The Foyer Saint-Françoispalliative care centre was founded south of the Sainte-Élisabeth site in 1989.[8]
In 1903, asanatorium opened in Mont-sur-Meuse (Yvoir), and was bought in 1919 by the National Alliance of Christian Mutual Societies (ANMC).[14] The Mont-Godinne hospital in Yvoir was then founded on 1 January 1928 by thenon-profit organization Solidarité Mutualiste Chrétienne,[15] a member of the ANMC. Its headquarters are located at 1031Brussels (postal code reserved for Christian associations). In 1967, an agreement was signed between Solidarité Mutualiste Chrétienne and theCatholic University of Louvain, still established inLouvain (Leuven).[16] Since then, the hospital has maintained privileged links with theUniversité catholique de Louvain and itsDutch-speaking equivalent, theKatholieke Universiteit te Leuven.[14] Its 300 beds becameuniversity beds in the counting by theMinistry of Public Health.[17] In 2004, the Mont-Godinne hospital changed its name toCliniques universitaires UCL de Mont-Godinne, in reference to UCLouvain'sSaint-Luc University Hospital (Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc) on theBrussels campus ofUCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe.[18] The hospital changed its name once again to become theCentre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Mont-Godinne in 2011, still jointly managed byUCLouvain and the Christian Mutual Societies.
The Dinant Hospital Centre (Centre hospitalier de Dinant, CHD) was founded on 15 May 1987 as apublic hospital of theCity of Dinant. Its functioning is initially governed by the municipality's Public Social Action Centre (CPAS).[19] In 2012, theCHU Mont-Godinne inYvoir merged with theCentre hospitalier de Dinant, forming theCHU UCL Mont-Godinne Dinant (CHU-UCL-MGD).[20]
Mergers are necessary to comply with the "healthcare basin" policy desired by theregional andfederal governments.[21]
In 2015, the CHU-UCL-MGD and theClinique et Maternité Saint-Élisabeth in Namur merged into theCentre hospitalier universitaire Dinant Godinne Saint-Elisabeth - UCL-Namur,[22] a new structure with 5 different hospital facilities.[23] The institution's headquarters is maintained in Mont-Godinne,Yvoir.[24] From that moment, the UCLouvain Namur University Hospital became the largest employer in theprovince of Namur.[5] The entire CHU UCLouvain Namur is recognized asuniversity hospital and attached toUCLouvain, but only the 300 beds of Mont-Godinne are counted as "university beds".[23]
Since 2017, thanks to abiomass gasification process, the Mont-Godinne site is powered by clean energy fromecological production.[25]
From November 2018 onwards, to face the shortage of doctors in rural areas ofnorthern France, specialists from the Godinne andDinant sites are also at work in the French municipality ofGivet, in the small Givet Medical Center.[13] 15% of the patients at the Dinant site areFrench.[26]
At the scientific level, the UCLouvain Namur University Hospital is linked with the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (MEDE) of theUniversity of Louvain, established on theUCLouvain Brussels Woluwe campus. However, the hospital also maintains relations with the nearby Faculty of Medicine of theUniversity of Namur (UNamur).[27] Itde facto serves as ateaching hospital for both universities.[citation needed]
La résidence "Les Lauriers" fait partie de l'offre de services du CHU UCL Namur
