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The Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) is the public hospital system (établissement public de santé) of the city of Paris and its suburbs. Providing health care, teaching, research, prevention, education and emergency medical service in 52 branches of medicine, it employs more than 90,000 people (practitioners and administratives) in 44 hospitals. The AP-HP is linked with the University of Paris and its seven colleges of medicine, two of odontology and two of pharmacy.
It is the largest hospital system in Europe1.
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History
Administration
Hospitals
Among the 44 hospitals of the AP-HP, the most notables are:
- Hôtel-Dieu, founded in 651, the oldest hospital in Paris;
- Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris and Europe's largest hospital;
- Hôpital Necker - Enfants malades, the world's oldest pediatric hospital;
- Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, the last hospital built in Paris;
- CHU Kremlin-Bicêtre;
- Hôpital Paul-Brousse.
- Hôpital Tenon.
Nota: the famous Val-de-Grâce hospital is a military hospital, not part of the AP-HP.
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