The Raymond Poincaré University Hospital is a hospital of the

Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris Assistance is an act of helping behavior. Assistance may also refer to: Types of help * Aid, in international relations, a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another * Assistance dog, a dog trained to aid or assist a person ...

(AP-HP) and a teaching hospital of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University. Located at

Garches Garches () is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Garches has remained largely residential, but is also the location of Raymond Poincaré University Hospital, which specialises in traumatol ...

(

Hauts-de-Seine Hauts-de-Seine (; ) is a Departments of France, département in the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, Northern France. It covers Paris's western inner Banlieue, suburbs. It is bordered by Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne to the e ...

, formerly in Seine-et-Oise), it was built between 1932 and 1936 and named after

Raymond Poincaré Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré (, ; 20 August 1860 – 15 October 1934) was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1913 to 1920, and three times as Prime Minister of France. Trained in law, Poincaré was elected deputy in 1 ...

, French president from 1913 to 1920. In the 1950s the hospital specialised in the rehabilitation of polio patients (the disease was then widespread, including in France) and in its professor André Grossiord and the orthopedic doctor Olivier Troisier set up the ''Centre national de traitement des séquelles de la polio''. This includes a service dedicated to children, along with 44 beds for adults (22 for each sex) in the pavillon Widal with specialist personnel in massage, hydrotherapy and teaching patients how to walk again.Hôpital Raymond-Poincaré
/ref>

Notable people associated with the Hospital

* David Azéma * Guillaume Depardieu

Notes

Hospitals in Hauts-de-Seine Hospital buildings completed in 1936 Hospitals established in 1936 {{Europe-hospital-stub