With its 20 years of existence, the Saint-Joseph Saint-Luc hospital center stands out as the only public service hospital in the heart of Lyon, located in the 2nd arrondissement. Today his goal is to “adapt to new challenges” at the same time health, demographic and societal.
The hospital center’s emergency medical service receives an average of 40,000 patients a year, making it the second largest emergency service in Lyon and the first in the city centre.
The Saint-Joseph Saint-Luc Hospital Center is betting on new innovations
In October 2022, the hospital center will offer the services of a Da Vinci surgical robot, for all patients and without additional financial burden. It will allow heavy abdomino-pelvic surgery to be carried out, while limiting post-operative sequelae.
Following the health crisis, it became necessary to take measures concerning the critical care sector. This is why in 2022 a new unit of ten continuous care beds fully convertible into resuscitation beds will be set up. Innovative care is also planned. Called short circuit, the objective is to allow patients to go directly to the operating theater as soon as they arrive.
La Maison Saint-Martin: a new structure dedicated to chronic diseases
With the increase in the incidence of chronic diseases (heart or kidney failure, diabetes, cerebrovascular pathologies, etc.), the hospital center wishes to innovate to better manage these pathologies. This process will take place within “Saint Martin’s House”, a new structure outside the walls of the hospital.
It will have a medicalized dialysis unit, a dialysis training unit and will be made up of a multi-professional team including “patients-experts”. Through this new concept, the hospital wishes to promote the autonomy and involvement of patients, by developing specific care pathways.
Patient care adapted to current challenges
Initially, following the resumption of the birth rate in the Metropolis of Lyon, the hospital center wishes to continue the development of the activity of the maternity ward, with an objective of 2500 annual births. Over the next two years, the 32 maternity beds will be grouped together on the same floor to ensure the safety and consistency of care. Obtaining the Initiative Hôpital Ami des Bébés (IHAB) label is also an objective to be achieved for the Hospital Centre.
To adapt to the aging of the population of the Metropolis, the hospital wishes to develop a geriatric medicine offer to better take care of elderly poly-pathological patients. He also affirms his desire to “develop and sustain” the PASS (Permanence of Access to Health Care) in order to be able to accommodate vulnerable people or people in great precariousness.
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