History
1929: Creation of the Mont Valérien French-American Foundation, called Maréchal Foch Foundation, by Justin Godart, former Minister of Health, and Bernard Flursheim, responsible for distribution of American aid in Europe.
1937: Inauguration of the Foch Hospital thanks to large private donations. 1996: The Maréchal Foch Foundation entrusts the management and development of the Foch Hospital to the Foch Hospital Association, a nonprofit association established jointly with the Hauts-de-Seine General Council and the Suresnes City Hall
Profile
The department of medical oncology is defined by a combined care approach with innovative anticancer treatments, supportive and palliative care.
This integrative model is organized in 6 units (or platforms), also including a pre-habilitation and re-habilitation department.
- An outpatient consultations: initial visit, disease evaluation and follow-up.
- An inpatient unit: 18 beds virtually separated in 4 beds assigned to anticancer treatment administration and 14 beds for cancer course complications (cancer and treatments adverse events) including palliative and supportive care.
- A day-hospital unit: 18 seats for anticancer therapeutics administration (36 to 40 patients per day). Two beds are blocked for emergencies with a direct phone call. Here, the objective is to improve the patient pathway by avoiding a visit to the hospital emergency service.
- A day supportive and palliative care unit with 2 beds for scheduled day-hospitalisation.
- The Serenity space: the Serenity space is entirely dedicated to supportive care (and excluding palliative care). This innovative original unit is located in a new building in front of the Foch Hospital. With this entity, the patient pathway is redefined according to multiple steps with the aim to facilitate early access to supportive care. A large panel of supportive care is offered: pain, nutrition, psychology, social and professional support but also adapted physical activity, counselling of life hygiene, psychological supports for relatives, fertility preservation, and sexology.
Other activities (all referenced by AFSOS organization) in the serenity space include: acupuncture, aromatherapy, art-therapy, auriculotherapy, personal and professional coaching, massage, musicotherapy, osteopathy, photobiomodulation, sophrology, etc. Those activities are proposed to the patient during their anticancer treatment.
- A clinical research office for clinical trials (phase 1, 2 and 3) belongs to the medical oncology department with 4 clinical research assistants and one project manager.
Specialities
GI (colorectal and non colorectal cancers), GU (Prostatic, bladder and kidney cancers), Head and Neck, Gynecological, neurological and lung cancers.
Palliative and Supportive Care
All the professionals are part of the same department, this enables shared practice and patient care. Assessments are performed by oncologist for anticancer treatment and by the supportive team for global pain (physical, and psychosocial). Weekly Cross-meetings are promoted to enhance discussions between professionals (physicians and health caregivers). The care delivered to patients is pooled between the various departments.
We have a mobile team involved in palliative and supportive care to manage patients in critical situations in the oncological and supportive care department and other disciplinaries (pneumology, neurology, and other departments over the Foch Hospital).
The health care team of the medical oncology department is distributed as follows:
- 8 medical oncologists, each of them specialized in one or 2 types of solid tumors.
- One medical oncologist and 2 general practitioners specialized in supportive and palliative care.
- 14 nurses; 3 coordinating nurses, 7 assistant nurses, 2 physiotherapists, 1 dietician, 2 psycho-oncologists and 1 social worker are included in the department team. A pre-habilitation and re-habilitation department is closely associated in the same organization.
- A palliative care mobile team (1 general practitioner and 1 palliative care nurse) dedicated to palliative care to manage patients in critical situations in the medical oncology department and others (pneumology, neurology, and other departments over the Foch Hospital).
- 2 coordination nurses are going to be recruited for the Serenity space, working in collaboration with the medical oncologist and general practionner. All described activities for patients are realized by experts from the hospital Foch working at partial time in the serenity space. The medico-economic model is built so that health care benefits are free of charge for patients.
Last update: March 2024
