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Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL) runs the Lyon university hospital centre (CHU), which provides care, medical and paramedical training, and clinical research. The group federates 14 facilities, including three general facilities with emergency, medical and surgical services, seven specialist facilities and four geriatric facilities. It also coordinates several national reference centres for rare conditions.

HCL serves patients in Lyon and its surrounding area, accepting patients across all conditions around the clock. The hospital centre trains students and junior doctors, pharmacists and dentists, as well as paramedical staff through eleven schools and institutes. It is linked by agreement with the Claude Bernard Lyon 1 university, and its research covers areas such as ageing, infectious diseases, cancer, nutrition, paediatrics, and heart, lung and metabolic disorders.

HCL describes itself as France's second university hospital centre, with a history of more than 200 years in Lyon and a staff of 24,000, including 5,000 physicians and over 11,000 nursing staff. Its #TeamHCL pages present careers in medical and paramedical roles such as nurses, nursing assistants, ambulance drivers, radiology technicians and health managers.

Product: Hospital care, medical and paramedical training, and clinical research delivered across 14 facilities in the Lyon area.