Greater Paris University Hospitals

Greater Paris University Hospitals^[1] (French: Assistance publique–hôpitaux de Paris [asistɑ̃s pyblik opito də paʁi], AP-HP) is the university hospital trust operating in Paris and its surroundings. It is the largest hospital system in Europe and one of the largest in the world.^[2]

Greater Paris University Hospitals

Southern entrance to AP-HP head office, 4 quai de Gesvres in Paris
Trade name	AP-HP
Native name	Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Formerly	Conseil général des hospices de Paris; Administration générale de l'Assistance publique
Company type	Public
Industry	Healthcare
Founded	4 December 1801; 223 years ago (1801-12-04)
Headquarters	Paris , France
Number of locations	38 university hospitals
Area served	Greater Paris
Products	University hospitals
Number of employees	100,000 (2024)
Divisions	AP-HP Sorbonne University Hospital Group AP-HP Paris Cité University Hospital Group AP-HP Paris-Saclay University Hospital Group AP-HP Henri Mondor Hospital Group AP-HP Paris Seine-Saint-Denis Hospital Group
Website	www.aphp.fr

It employs more than 90,000 people^[3] in 38 teaching hospitals and receives more than 10 million annual patient visits.^[4] AP-HP is organized in 6 hospital local trusts called "GHU", each associated to a university to offer integrative care to its population.^[5]

It is affiliated with Paris Cité University (16 teaching hospitals), Sorbonne University (7 teaching hospitals), Saclay University (6 teaching hospitals), the University of Créteil (5 teaching hospitals), Sorbonne Paris North University (3 teaching hospitals) and their colleges of medicine, odontology, and pharmacy.

As a teaching hospitals network, AP-HP trust is in charge of training healthcare professionals and doctors, and plays a prominent role in French healthcare research alongside Inserm.

History

Succeeding to the conseil général des hospices de Paris, the Administration générale de l'Assistance publique was created by a law of January 10, 1849. In 1961, the AP-HP became the hospital system of Paris and its suburbs.

Administration

Hospitals

Not all hospitals in AP-HP have all the specialties. AP-HP is characterized by very specialized departments which allows offering the best care for patients by very experienced professionals. Within the same specialty, different departments in different hospitals are experts in different branches of the same specialty.

AP-HP is not the sole healthcare operator in Paris. The trust shares with duties alongside military hospitals such as Val-de-Grâce, or Institut Curie, and Institut Gustave Roussy, Europe's leading cancer-research institute and the biggest health center dedicated to oncology in Europe.

The 6 university hospital groups of the AP-HP:

• AP-HP Sorbonne University Hospital Group
• AP-HP Paris Cité University Hospital Group
• AP-HP Paris-Saclay University Hospital Group
• AP-HP Henri Mondor Hospital Group
• AP-HP Paris Seine-Saint-Denis Hospital Group

See also

• Hôtel-Dieu, Paris