In Nancy, the new hospital must come into service no later than 2031. Three buildings will be constructed. Objective: to bring together several activities of the regional university hospital center in one place, because they are currently spread across seven sites in the greater Nancy metropolis. The project was presented by management this Friday, December 20.
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In Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle), we now know the outlines of the new hospital. The project was unveiled by management this Friday, December 20, 2024. It follows a call for tenders launched by the management of the health establishment, to which several architectural companies responded.
Three buildings will be added to the two already existing, to form what will be the new regional and university hospital center (CHRU) of Nancy. It will be located on the Brabois site. The inauguration is planned between 2030 and 2031.
Work on this highly anticipated project has already begun.
The management of the Nancy public hospital is impatiently awaiting the construction of these new buildings, which will be able to accommodate up to 1,147 patients. “There will be the movement of the entire maternity ward to Brabois, but also of the entire neurology part which is currently in the city center. We will then concentrate all the operating theaters and intensive care units in a single building. The objective is to have a very efficient, very functional and very human project.“, explains Arnaud Vanneste, director of the Nancy CHRU.
A move which will lead to changes in the organization of care in Nancy. However, day medicine will remain in town, adds the hospital manager: “An outpatient medicine service will be maintained in the city center. We will maintain a local consultation, imaging and biology activity, so that we can maintain an offer directly to the populations in the city center.“
First synthetic images of the future hall common to the three new buildings to be built for the new Nancy hospital.
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© CHRU de Nancy / Document submitted
The current downtown facilities will gradually transition into the three new buildings to come. “Today, the work has already started. The first maternity building will be delivered in 2030, as will the woman-mother-child building. One year later, the other two sites will be built. The moves and commissioning of the new CHRU will take place in 2032“, concludes Arnaud Vanneste.
Main innovation: the reception of these three new installations which extend over 7 hectares (Editor's note: approximately 10 football fields) will be centralized. The same hall, called “central islet“by the management, will serve as a common entrance to these buildings. An element which counted a lot in the choice of the winning project, according to the management: “This is one of the keys that counted in choosing this project. It will make it possible to restore a center of life to the hospital and for patients and staff. This gives a very human and very qualitative whole, which brings a lot of humanity to this project.“
Signature of the contract between Arnaud Vanneste, director of the Nancy CHRU and one of the winning architects, Michel Beauvais.
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A future hospital complex imagined by two award-winning architects, including Michel Beauvais. The upcoming project represents a big challenge, according to him. “The constraint is already its scale. This represents no less than 144,000m2 to build, over 7 hectares and with different heights. This is a very, very large, exceptional program. Making three buildings that fit together with two others, it's a complexity”he tells us.
The new hospital project is estimated at around 754 million euros. A budget to which the State contributed more than 55%. The new CHRU must replace the old installations, which date from the 1970s.
