Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc

The Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc (UCLouvain Saint-Luc) is a non-profit academic hospital of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain),^[1] located on the university campus of UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Brussels, Belgium. The hospital opened on 23 August 1976, moving from Leuven to Brussels.

Saint-Luc University Hospital
University of Louvain
Sedes Sapientiae, seal of UCLouvain
Geography
Location	UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Brussels, Belgium
Coordinates	50°51′07.4″N 04°27′08.5″E
Organisation
Care system	Private ASBL
Funding	Public hospital
Type	Teaching
Affiliated university	UCLouvain
Patron	Saint Luke
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	973
Helipad	ICAO: EBUC
History
Opened	1976
Links
Website	http://www.saintluc.be/
Lists	Hospitals in Belgium
Other links	List of hospitals in Belgium

History

In 1968 the Catholic University of Louvain acquired some land in the east of Brussels, which did not have a large hospital at that time. When the university split in two, the French-speaking departments moved from Leuven to Ottignies to found the new city of Louvain-la-Neuve, except for the medical faculty and health sciences sector, which moved to a newly built Brussels campus, now called UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe.

It is one of the two main university hospitals of the Université catholique de Louvain, the other being the CHU UCLouvain Namur, in the Walloon province of Namur.

Research

Being a teaching and university hospital UCLouvain Saint-Luc continues to do ground breaking medical research. For example, the first baby born after ovarian transplant^[2] and the first photograph of human ovulation.^[3]

Famous people born at Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc

• Prince Amedeo, Princess Maria Laura and Prince Joachim, born in 1986, 1988 and 1991 respectively.
• Princess Louise of Belgium, twins Prince Nicolas of Belgium and Prince Aymeric of Belgium, born in 2004 and 2005, respectively.