Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris


Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris is the university hospital trust operating in Paris and its surroundings.
It is the largest hospital system in Europe and one of the largest in the world; it provides health care, teaching, research, prevention, education and emergency medical service in 52 branches of medicine. It employs more than 90,000 people in 44 hospitals and receives more than 5,8 million annual patient visits.
It is linked with the University of Paris and its seven colleges of medicine, two of odontology and two of pharmacy as AP-HP is the university hospital for the capital and its surroundings.
AP-HP is organized in several hospital local trusts, each associated to a faculty to offer integrative care to its population.
As a teaching hospital, AP-HP Trust is in charge of training healthcare professionals and doctors, and plays a prominent role in French healthcare research alongside Inserm.

History

Succeeding to the conseil général des hospices de Paris, the Administration générale de l'Assistance publique was created by a law of January 10, 1849.
In 1961, the AP-HP became the public hospital system of Paris and its suburbs.

Administration

Hospitals

Among the 44 hospitals of the AP-HP, the most notable are:
Three pediatric hospitals offer care to children both in medicine and surgery fields :
AP-HP is not the sole healthcare operator in Paris. The trust shares with duties alongside military hospitals such as Val-de-Grâce, or Institut Curie. Institut Gustave Roussy, one of the world’s leading cancer-research institutes and the biggest health center dedicated to oncology in Europe.