Missions

Poitiers University Hospital cooperation within its population pool is one of its priorities. Healthcare facilities are encouraged to strengthen their cooperations, at a departmental level as well as at a regional level, as a declination of the hospital care organisation regional pattern (SROS). Poitiers University Hospital follows this approach by creating a territory medical project, through cooperation conventions to ensure access to quality healthcare throughout the territory. This project concerns, among others, medical cooperations in perinatality, surgery, emergency services and cardiology. The fusion between Poitiers University Hospital and Lusignan Center on the 1st of Januray 2013 confirmed this dynamics, as well as the fusion with Montmorillon Hospital on the 1st of January 2016.

Poitiers University Hospital is the regional referral facility for all public hospitals in Poitou-Charentes. This referral activity concerns specialised activities that have a regional dimension such as pediatric intensive care, neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, stroke unit, severe adult obesity unit and polytraumatic adult care. Regional chains are developed to reinforce access to referral activites.

The Law on the Modernisation of healthcare system plans a new cooperation way, the “groupements hospitaliers de territoires (GHT)”. Their purpose is to guarantee a better access to healthcare for all patients by reinforcing cooperation between public hospitals and medico-welfare establishments on a medical project that helps organize patient care on Vienne territory, while answering population healthcare needs.

Since the 1st of July 2016, strengths and skills of the sanitary sector and the medico-welfare sector have been working together through a “GHT” composed of Poitiers University Hospital (member and named support establishment), hospital group Nord-Vienne (GHNV) (member), EHPAD Les Capucines, Théodore Arnault, Les Châtaigniers, La Brunetterie (associated facilities), and  post-op and rehabilitation center La Colline ensoleillée (partner facility).

The purpose is to allow a territorial network which gives meaning and increased legibility to a full coordinated  and transversal care for patients within the department.

Poitiers University Hospital carries cooperation actions in partnership with University Hospitals of the Western region of France (HUGO) in research and education.  Medical cooperation axes are also recommended and executed for some specialties, such as neuroradiology and organ transplantation, as part of the health organization interregional pattern (2008-2013). These cooperations concern the regional and university hospitals of Angers, Brest, Nantes, Orléans, Rennes et Tours. Poitiers University Hospital also reinforced its connections with Tours University Hospital,  notably through the Inter-hospital Medical Federation of liver’s diseases, bile ducts and liver transplant.

Poitiers University Hospital’s international cooperation axes are notably about : health professionals exchanges, reception of foreign students from St Georges and Getaoui Beirut hospitals and Balamand University (Lebanon), exchanges as a part of the Orion network that develops cooperations between European and Latin American hospitals and universities (Santiago university in Chile, Rio Gallego hospital in Argentina, Grenada university in Spain) ; une coopération de longue date avec trois hôpitaux chinois à Nanchang, Jiujiang et Shanghai, notamment pour l’accueil de stagiaires et la participation à des séminaires de formation conjoints, des échanges avec l’hôpital régional de Moundou (Tchad), en lien avec l’Agence française de développement, la fédération hospitalière de France, la municipalité de Poitiers et des associations poitevines, la formation de médecins en neurochirurgie dans différents hôpitaux vietnamiens, notamment l’Hôpital 115 à Ho Chi Minh.