Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc

The Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc (UCLouvain Saint-Luc) is a non-profit academic hospital of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain),[1] located on the university campus of UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Brussels, Belgium. The hospital opened on 23 August 1976, moving from Leuven to Brussels.

Saint-Luc University Hospital
University of Louvain
Sedes Sapientiae, seal of UCLouvain
Geography
LocationUCLouvain Brussels Woluwe, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Brussels, Belgium
Coordinates50°51′07.4″N 04°27′08.5″E
Organisation
Care systemPrivate ASBL
FundingGovernment hospital
TypeTeaching
Affiliated universityUCLouvain
PatronSaint Luke
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds973
HelipadICAO: EBUC
History
Opened1976
Links
Websitehttp://www.saintluc.be/
ListsHospitals in Belgium
Other linksList of hospitals in Belgium

History

In 1968 the Catholic University of Louvain acquired some land in the east of Brussels, which did not have a large hospital at that time. When the university split in two, the French-speaking departments moved from Leuven to Ottignies to found the new city of Louvain-la-Neuve, except for the medical faculty and health sciences sector, which moved to a newly built Brussels campus, now called UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe.

It is one of the two main university hospitals of the Université catholique de Louvain, the other being the CHU UCLouvain Namur, in the Walloon province of Namur.

Research

Being a teaching and university hospital UCLouvain Saint-Luc continues to do ground breaking medical research. For example, the first baby born after ovarian transplant[2] and the first photograph of human ovulation.[3]

Famous people born at Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc

References
  1. "Statutes of the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Louis". just.fgov.be. 11 September 2018.
  2. New Scientist , First baby born after ovarian transplant, 24 September 2004.
  3. New Scientist , Human egg makes accidental debut on camera
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