Hospital Maison Blanche, Paris

Main Roles in the EMILIA Project

Work package 7: Facilitating User Access to Learning and Work opportunities. Activates the user employment strategy on all demonstration sites and ensures an appropriate support system is in place.

Maison Blanche is also one of the 8 demonstration sites.

Current status as a demonstration site.

Short description of HMB

Maison Blanche is currently undergoing a major transformation. For inpatients, the old hospital, some 25 kilometres out of Paris, is being progressively replaced by a series of smaller inpatient structures, situated as close as possible to the communities they serve. Of the 2600 beds on the old site at its high point in the mid sixties, only 490 beds are in use today – and, by the end of 2005, most will have been moved back into Paris. At the same time, a greater diversity of services are being created in order to meet more specific needs. Specialised units for children, adolescents, drug and alcohol users, people with HIV/AIDS and older people suffering from dementia offer a wide range of social and psychological prevention, care and rehabilitation services. In the year 2001, 70% of Maison Blanche's 14,000 patients will use only outpatient services.

Nor does Maison Blanche only care for patients. A Further Education centre for specific staff skills training, a major nursing school, library and conference facilities and a new research centre are just some of the services available to both the personnel and the community. In addition, our open partnership policy has led to a large number of joint projects not only on local but also on international levels, with research, development and hospital co-operation programmes in a growing number of countries.

For more information visit www.ch-maison-blanche.fr/

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