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The Pasteur clinic in Toulouse has just inaugurated its new building. In its 10,800 m2, “Îlot” accommodates all consultation activity. Since 1957, the establishment has continued to expand, with unique funding from the doctor-owners.
It is a large vessel of several hundred meters, with its pavilions, its streets, its underground passages. The Pasteur clinic has been growing for more than sixty years. A small town within a town, which has become the leading private health establishment in France in terms of turnover (145 million euros in 2023).
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The latest arrival along Avenue de Lombez, the Îlot building – which has just been inaugurated – concludes the clinic's real estate master plan. From now on, the establishment is geographically organized into three centers: hospitalization in the historic and main building, outpatient surgery and radiotherapy in the Atrium and, between the two, in the new “Islet” building, consultations. After the Atrium (8,500 m2, opening in 2011), the “Passerelle” building dedicated to cardiology (11,000 m2 in 2017), the clinic is expanding by 10,800 m2. This new space, opened this summer, brings together on 7 levels all the consultations (20 practices, 12 specialties), the laboratory and nuclear medicine (scintigraphy, PET scan). “The patient journey has become more understandable. Before, they had to find and open many doors,” smiles Loïc Lagarde, director of the Pasteur clinic.
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37 million euros financed by doctors
The president and CEO of the Pasteur clinic, Dr. Bernard Assoun, recalled that the 37 million euros of the project were entirely financed by the shareholder doctors according to the model in force since the opening of the establishment in 1957. “Here, there is no dividend redistributed, everything is invested in the tool. We still have major challenges to overcome in a context of reduced economic room for maneuver, considerable and exponential demand for care and maintaining a level excellence of our technical platforms”, underlines the CEO. This model, unique in France, was praised by the mayor of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Moudenc, and Didier Jaffre, president of the Regional Health Agency (ARS Occitanie), present at the inauguration.
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6000 m2 more in 2030
The clinic is not finished with its developments. At the rear of the Passerelle building, a “Pasteur 2030” project is taking shape over 6,000 m2 (renovation and elevation) to develop the day hospitalization offer and expand the operating theaters. “Demand is growing, we do not want to find ourselves facing a demographic wall which would force us to make concessions on the quality of care. Our responsibility is to continue to invest in the future,” concludes Loïc Lagarde.
