Navigating healthcare in a foreign country can be daunting, especially with language barriers. In France, finding hospitals with English-speaking staff can ease the experience for expatriates and travelers. This article highlights a few English-speaking Hospitals in the city of Paris, France.
American Hospital
The American Hospital of Paris is a not-for-profit multidisciplinary healthcare institution of recognized public benefit, accredited by both the American Joint Commission and the French Haute Autorité de Santé.
Capacity
- 138 beds including 19 critical care beds. Also, 27 ambulatory care rooms.
- 12 dialysis stations and 7 ambulatory chemotherapy stations.
- 354 accredited physicians and surgeons.
- 819 employees, including 643 medical and nursing staff (79%).
Practical Information
- Address (24/7): 63 boulevard Victor Hugo, 92000 Neuilly-sur-Seine
- Tel: 01 46 41 25 25
- Fax: 01 46 24 49 38
- Website: american-hospital.org
- Appointment: Phone (+33146412525) | Online | E-mail
- Walk-in Entrance: 55 boulevard du Château, 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine
- Visitor parking and drop-off area: 40 rue Chauveau, 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine
- Free valet parking is available from Monday to Friday from 7 am to 9 pm.
- Public Transport: Bus 82 & 93 | Metro M1 & M3.
Adolphe de Rothschild Foundation Hospital
Created in 1905, thanks to the bequest of Baron Adolphe de Rothschild , the Rothschild Foundation Hospital is a non-profit hospital (private health establishment of collective interest – ESPIC). It offers excellent support in sector 1 ( without excess fees).
The Rothschild Foundation Hospital is a university hospital recognized nationally and internationally for its medical and research expertise in ophthalmology and neuroscience (neurology, adult neurosurgery, pediatric neurosurgery, interventional neuroradiology). These areas of hyper-specialty are complemented by care in ENT, oral surgery, imaging, hospital medicine, anesthesia-intensive care and within several rare disease reference centers.
Key Facts
- 1st French hospital for corneal transplants;
- 1st artificial retinal implant in the world for ADM patients;
- 1st French center for intravitreal injections (IVT) for treating AMD.
- Reference center in the Paris region for treating retinopathy in newborns.
- This university hospital offers excellent care and treats more than 30,000 surgical procedures every year.
- The hospital is also a research and teaching center.
- Regularly ranked among the best hospitals in France, it oversees 125 clinical studies and publishes around 400 scientific articles each year. It also trains nearly 950 students annually.
Practical Information
- Address (24/7): 29 rue Manin, 75019 Paris
- Tel: 01 48 03 65 65
- Website: fo-rothschild.fr
- Appointment: prendre-un-rendez-vous
- Parking nearby: Parking Public Garage Saint-Georges, 76 avenue Secretan, 75019 Paris.
- The Hospital does not have parking facilities on its premises.
- Public Transport,
• Bus: 75 (Secrétan Buttes Chaumont)
• Metro: M2 (Colonel Fabien), M7bis (Bolivar) or M11 (Pyrénées)
Hôpital Franco-Britannique (HFB)
The Hôpital Franco-Britannique is located in Levallois-Perret and is a private public interest establishment (ESPIC) which provides healthcare services to its local population.
Key Facts
- The establishment has 270 beds.
- It employs 700 healthcare professionals including 120 doctors, divided between 5 specific healthcare centres:
- Digestive, orthopaedic, gynaecological and urological surgery.
- Woman-Mother-Child: maternity 2A.
- Medical and surgical cancerology.
- Internal medicine and Acute geriatrics.
- Emergency ward (46.000 patients per year) and Intensive Care Unit.
- The Maternity ward (Barbes site) has been extended and is now able to cope with more than 2,500 births per year.
Practical Information
- Kléber Site (ex-Hôpital N. D. du Perpétuel Secours): 4 rue Kléber – 92300 Levallois-Perret
- Adult and paediatrics emergency ward | Functional testing | Medical Imaging | Laboratory | Surgery ward | Medical ward | Oncology ward.
- Barbès Site (ex-Hertford British Hospital): 3 rue Barbès – 92300 Levallois-Perret
- Gynaecological and Obstetrics Emergencies
- Women / Mother / Child ward
- Medical Imaging
- Tel: 01 47 59 59 59 (reception)
- Website: hopitalfrancobritannique.org
- Appointment: Online | Phone (01 46 39 22 00)
- Public parking nearby: 25, rue Voltaire – Levallois-Perret
- The Hospital does not have parking facilities on its premises.
- Public Transport: Bus: 93 / 174 / 164 and Metro M3.
Hôpital Foch
A private health establishment of collective interest (ESPIC) , Foch Hospital claims this dual identity: helping as many people as possible, which is specific to public service, while enjoying the flexibility of private management.
Key Facts
- A workforce of 2,300 employees including more than 300 doctors.
- 600 installed beds, 260,000 consultations excluding maternity and emergencies, and more than 60,000 hospitalizations per year.
- Foch Hospital is one of the largest ESPICs in France with a university dimension and research which makes it the equivalent of certain large French university hospitals (700 publications/year).
- A large university hospital in agreement with the University of Versailles St Quentin, Foch Hospital trains around 100 interns each year, has a midwifery school and a nursing school.
- It has in its ranks 30 PUPH (university professors-hospital practitioners ) or MCU-PH ( university lecturers-hospital practitioners).
Practical Information
- Address (24/7): 40 rue Worth, 92150 Suresnes
- Tel: 01 46 25 20 00
- Website: hopital-foch.com
- Appointment: Doctolib | Phone (01 46 25 25 25) appointment service is available Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
- Parking nearby 🚗 : The public parking lot located under the hospital is temporarily closed. You can park at the Franklin Roosevelt car park, located at 32 Av. Franklin Roosevelt 92150 Suresnes.
- Public Transport: Coming by train 🚆
- Gare Saint-Lazare , line L towards Versailles, get off at “Suresnes -Mont-Valérien”.
- RER A : change at “La Défense”, take the Line L train towards Versailles and get off at “Suresnes – Mont-Valérien”.
- Tram Line T2 – Val-de-Seine Tram, “Suresnes Longchamp” station.
- Public Transport: Coming by bus 🚌
- The Cluseret – Hôpital Foch stop is served by bus lines 160 , 241 , 263 and 360 .
