The hospital’s medical project, part of the strategic project of the GHU AP-HP.Centre 2021-2025, consists of restoring an exclusive perinatal and pediatric dimension to the site by developing its reception capacities and its technical platform, to strengthen its areas of expertise, to develop innovative therapies and to meet a growing demand for care. This results in major operations, works and service moves which started in December 2021 and will end in the fall of 2025.
Key figures of the project:
12 services fully or partially renovated
Finally, 45 units additional
An operating theater pediatric cardiac surgery
Total investment of 22M€
Pediatric medico-surgical cardiology: increase of more than 50% in treatment capacities by the end of 2025 to meet public health needs
A major player in the care of congenital heart disease and pediatric heart disease in Île-de-France and in France, the Necker-Enfants Malades AP-HP hospital aims to significantly increase its care capacity in order to respond health needs currently not covered in the territory.
The initial work carried out made it possible to extend the medical-surgical cardiology hospitalization unit from 23 to 36 beds (single rooms only) and the creation of a studio for parents. Work to create an additional operating theater and expand the medical-surgical intensive care unit with an increase from 18 to 26 beds has just started and will be completed in the fall of 2025.
A footbridge will also be built to connect the two intensive care sectors. At the end of this work, the reception capacity of the medical-surgical cardiology sector will be increased by more than 50% with 62 beds compared to 41 today.
A consolidated medical pediatrics offer in the renovated Hamburger building
After 18 months of work, the general pediatrics and infectious diseases, pulmonology-allergology and dermatology departments moved into completely renovated premises in September 2023. This new configuration allowed the general pediatrics department to adapt its reception capacity to specific care with six negative pressure rooms, six adolescent rooms and to develop its pediatric reception unit for children in danger (UAPED). The dermatology department has equipped itself with a new therapeutic bathtub for the treatment of complex and rare pathologies treated by the department.
The Developmental Diseases Clinic is modernizing and expanding with the opening in early 2025 of a new weekly hospitalization unit. In a few days, patients will be welcomed in the new premises of the conventional hospitalization unit rehabilitated into single rooms and with five fully adapted multiple-disabled rooms.
Opening of a child psychiatry hospitalization unit
Since April 2024, the hospital has had a seven-bed child psychiatry hospitalization unit which welcomes children and adolescents for urgent psychiatric reasons. The unit initially opened as a weekday hospitalization and will switch to full hospitalization this winter.
Modernization and creation of additional individual rooms in maternity and neonatology
Since this summer, the hospitalization sector of the hospital’s maternity ward has been reconfigured and modernized with individual rooms, one of which can accommodate people with reduced mobility. In neonatology, the mother-child unit was also enlarged with semi-enclosed spaces to improve confidentiality and preserve the privacy of families, as well as three additional mother-child rooms were created to accommodate twins in particular.
The Necker-Enfants Malades AP-HP hospital has developed, over the decades, optimal care for children with rare or complex pathologies, from prenatal to adulthood, thanks to the continuous enrichment of pediatric expertise. multidisciplinary and multiprofessional on the same site, and the interactions between these different specialties and professions. It offers a comprehensive pediatric care offering, providing multidisciplinary medical and surgical expertise.
The extension and consolidation of pediatric activities occurs in parallel with the grouping of specialized adult activities (hematology, infectious and tropical diseases and transplant nephrology) in other GHU hospitals: the adult hematology department and the adult infectious and tropical diseases department. at the Cochin AP-HP hospital and the adult kidney transplant nephrology department at the Georges-Pompidou AP-HP European hospital.
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