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"The Cognacq-Jay Hospital is a private health institution of public interest (ESPIC). It's a non-profit organisation owned by the Cognac-Jay Foundation officially recognised as being of public benefit since 1916.
It provides compassionate medicine and follow-up healthcare services. Patients who need medical and social case management stay for anywhere between several weeks to several months.
There are actually 4 hospital units within the institution: an orthopedic rehabilitation unit with 46 beds, a palliative care unit with 36 beds, an infectious diseases unit with 23 beds and a lymphology unit with 33 beds. A new unit dedicated to polyvalent follow-up care for convalescences will be opened in 2012.
Every year we welcome up to 2,000 inpatient adults, mostly guided by other hospitals in the Paris region. We also receive up to 4,000 people per year for outpatient consultations in lymphology.
Since 2006 the hospital benefits from new buildings, built on the site of the old Parisian establishment, where the former Cognacq-Jay maternity hospital stood during the last century.
Japonese architect Toyo Ito designed the new institution in harmony with the medical plan. The new institution was especially designed for patients staying for relatively long periods of hospitalization.
Inspired by the type of healthcare provided and the daily challenge of combatting suffering, a culture of tolerance has formed within the institution, based on listening, openness to others, openness to life and openness to change."
Jean-Luc Fidel, Director.