Louis Pradel Hospital

Summary

The Louis Pradel Hospital is the largest and top-performing medicare service provider in France-located in Bron City. They are a part of Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL). They are a specialty teaching hospital that offers good care to patients, an excellent research center for healthcare professionals, and a great platform for learning students. They provide a complete range of care with excellent facilities in specialized departments like cardiology, cardiovascular & thoracic surgery, pneumology, endocrinology, anesthesia resuscitation, critical care, and cardi-pediatrics. Furthermore, the radiology center is equipped with the latest technologies that include; Scanners, dopplers, MRIs, CTs, mammography, arteriograms, bone densitometry, and X-rays.

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Details

General Outlook

• The Louis Pradel Hospital is one of the leading hospitals in France-situated in the heart of Bron.
• The Louis Pradel Hospital is part of Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)-they have 13 teaching hospitals in the Lyon area and 1 in the South of France.
• They are a multi-specialty teaching hospital that provides great care to patients, an excellent platform for students, and a remarkable research center for professionals.
• They offer a complete range of care with excellent services in cardiology, cardiovascular & thoracic surgery, pneumology, endocrinology, anesthesia resuscitation, critical care, and cardi-pediatrics.
• They are undergoing a wide modernization operation that allows them to chive their core mission as a benchmark hospital establishment at the national and international levels.
• This medical facility is the major center for the development & research of medical & surgical reference and innovations as;
• Hosts the Opera University Hospital Institute-dedicated to research on the tissue damage by cardiovascular diseases or destruction of organs
• Has four reference centers
• Further, they offer full accomplishment of diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation services, with great consultants in all fields of medicare.
• They are ranked by Newsweek as one of the world's best hospitals in France in the 2020 Survey.

Fundaments

• The Louis Hospital is well-equipped with advanced yet latest technologies, performs different procedures in various specialty departments, has state-of-the-art facilities for patients/visitors, and has a wide range of amenities.
• They have a team of about 1,100 physicians, nurses, and caregiver staff that deal with thousands of in and out-patients including international patients.
• The excellent of achievements for this medical facility are;
• Fist Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Center in Auvergne Rhone-Alpes Region
• Provide 24-hour management and reception to Emergency Cradiological Consultation Unit (CCU)
• Host the only medico-surgery of cardio-pediatrics center in this region
• The Imaging Department of the hospital are equipped with high-tech technologies that carried out an examination of all ages by using;
• Scanners
• Dopplers
• MRI’s
• CT’s
• Mammography
• Digital Ultrasound
• Arteriograms
• Bone Densitometry
• X-rays
• The wards and rooms are highly equipped that ensure hygiene from specialized surgeries to outpatient.
• The hospital serves 100,000 patients per year as they provide 24/7 services and 6,000 Cardiological emergency visits

Specialty Medical Services for Foreigners

The  Louis Pradel Hospital is the leading medicare that provides various services, centers, and departments for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases;

• Adult and Child Congenital Heart Disease Service
• Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery
• Department of Hemodynamics and Interventional Cardiology
• Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases
• Functional Respiratory Exploration Service
• GHE Anesthesia-Resuscitation Service
• Medical Image Service
• Nuclear Medicine Department
• Pneumology Department
• Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Department

Language Spoken

• French
• English

Approachability for Foreigners

• The nearest airport for Louis Pradel Hospital is Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport. The total distance is about 24 km that takes 20 minutes to reach the hospital via road in a car, taxi, and town car.
• Moreover, there are many international standard hotels are present around the hospital that provides a wide range of services and facilities for foreigners.