Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud - Hospices Civils de Lyon is an ESMO-SIOG Geriatric Oncology Recommended Institution
Hospices Civils de Lyon is France's second university hospital centre (CHU). HCL includes a staff of 23,000 of which 5,000 are physicians and over 11,000 are nursing staff.
Training Experience Required
Fellows are either:
- Trained oncologists in search of acquisition of diagnostic, therapeutic and interpersonal skills for optimal assessment care of older patients with cancer
- Trained geriatricians in search of practical knowledge on the treatment for cancers frequently encountered in aged patients, their main adverse effects, their impact on quality of life and therapeutic alternatives for patients deemed fragile
General Description
Hospices Civils de Lyon is France's second university hospital centre (CHU). HCL includes a staff of 23,000 of which 5,000 are physicians and over 11,000 are nursing staff. It federates 14 facilities, including three predominantly general facilities providing emergency, medical and surgical services in a wide range of disciplines, seven specialist facilities and four geriatric facilities.
Expertise
Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud offers a unique oncogeriatric ward dedicated to care and clinical research integrated into a rehabilitation geriatric hospital, working in close relationship with cancer medical and surgical units.
Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud has excellent services, particularly in the fields of cancerology, hematology, nutrition, dermatology as well as in multiple surgical specialties such as orthopedics or digestive surgery. It is a reference establishment for emergency care, pregnancy care and older patient care. It owns last generation equipment (surgical robot, particle accelerator, MRI, scans...) and it hosts the radiotherapy service of Hospices Civils de Lyon, which has been recently renovated and has the best devices.
Human and technical means:
- 3,360 non-medical staff members and 355 senior doctors 28 operation rooms
- 1,000 beds and seats
- Annual activity:
- 25,600 surgical interventions
- 2,300 births
- 31,000 emergency entries
- 217,000 medical consultations
- 239,500 days of hospitalization and 4 600 outpatient days
Facilities
Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud offers innovative care procedures to its patients: surgical reception unit, path of fast recovery after surgery, hypnosis, 3D printing, support care and health information room, coordination between city and hospital.
The hospital also hosts Europeans centers in clinical research as well as the European Center for nutrition and health (CENS), an innovative structure of nutrition research.
Last update: November 2020
