From the day it opened its doors in 1910, the American Hospital of Paris has brought together the American and international community in a very special way. It is America’s Hospital in Europe, the meeting ground for European and U.S. medical science, technology and doctors; a place where medical experts and specialists from around the world come to study its management, diagnostic methods and facilities. More than 200,000 patients from over one hundred countries pass through its doors each year. The Hospital is the international affiliate of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. This affiliation provides for the exchange of critical medical and scientific resources between Europe and America.
Now, after more than a century of caring, the Hospital still represents the aspiration of the Americans living in Paris at the turn of the 20th century to have the best of American medicine. While these expatriates enjoyed the many opportunities offered them in Paris, they did not want to have to return stateside for the familiarity of English-speaking doctors and American-style medicine.
Granted a special federal charter and incorporated by a special act of the U.S. Congress in 1913, the Hospital has been an extension of U.S. diplomacy ever since, with the U.S. Located on the site of one of Louis XV’s summer homes in Neuilly-sur-Seine and ten minutes from the Étoile and the Champs-Elysées, the American Hospital quickly gained a reputation for fine care and superior staff, services and technologies.
Because the Hospital treated more than 100,000 Allied soldiers during the two world wars, providing care to thousands of French soldiers as well as American, the French government designated the Hospital an institution of public benefit in 1918 and gave it privileges and status that no other hospital in France enjoys, including the right to appoint American physicians to the staff based solely on their U.S. credentials and training. The Hospital has always sought to strengthen its ties of friendship with France in an exemplary fashion. It has expanded over the years, adding new buildings, increasing patient services and enlarging the staff that includes both American and French physicians and bilingual nurses. Reconstruction and modernization have taken place continually to meet changing needs, advances in technology and increased demands.
Since 1976, our country’s bicentennial year, The American Hospital of Paris Foundation has been the vital link between the United States and the American Hospital of Paris. Through our events, annual fund, and gifts from our generous leadership, the Foundation has raised funds to provide needed improvements in technology and facilities for the Hospital, and to create programs that facilitate a healthy exchange between the United States and France of medical ideas, techniques and personnel.
The American Hospital of Paris is the only civilian hospital outside the United States accredited by the U.S. Joint Commission based on its stringent U.S. standards. The Hospital is not subsidized by the French or American governments and relies on patient revenues and contributions for its operations. With the help of friends and supporters throughout the world, the American Hospital of Paris will continue to be America’s Hospital in Europe.
For more information about the Hospital, please visit its website.
