The Saint-Elisabeth nursing school (today called the ECNAS,
École Namuroise de soins Sainte-Élisabeth) was founded by
royal decree in 1922, by the
Sisters of Charity in the village of Salzinnes, on Charles Zoude street, The Mont-Godinne hospital in Yvoir was then founded on 1 January 1928 by the
non-profit organization Solidarité Mutualiste Chrétienne, a member of the ANMC. Its headquarters are located at 1031
Brussels (postal code reserved for Christian associations). In 1967, an agreement was signed between Solidarité Mutualiste Chrétienne and the
Catholic University of Louvain, still established in
Louvain (Leuven). Since then, the hospital has maintained privileged links with the
Université catholique de Louvain and its
Dutch-speaking equivalent, the
Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven. In 2004, the Mont-Godinne hospital changed its name to
Cliniques universitaires UCL de Mont-Godinne, in reference to UCLouvain's
Saint-Luc University Hospital (
Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc) on the
Brussels campus of
UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe. The hospital changed its name once again to become the
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Mont-Godinne in 2011, still jointly managed by
UCLouvain and the Christian Mutual Societies. The Dinant Hospital Centre (
Centre hospitalier de Dinant, CHD) was founded on 15 May 1987 as a
public hospital of the
City of Dinant. Its functioning is initially governed by the municipality's Public Social Action Centre (CPAS). In 2012, the
CHU Mont-Godinne in
Yvoir merged with the
Centre hospitalier de Dinant, forming the
CHU UCL Mont-Godinne Dinant (CHU-UCL-MGD). Mergers are necessary to comply with the "healthcare basin" policy desired by the
regional and
federal governments. In 2015, the CHU-UCL-MGD and the
Clinique et Maternité Saint-Élisabeth in Namur merged into the
Centre hospitalier universitaire Dinant Godinne Saint-Elisabeth - UCL-Namur, a new structure with 5 different hospital facilities. The institution's headquarters is maintained in Mont-Godinne,
Yvoir. From that moment, the UCLouvain Namur University Hospital became the largest employer in the
province of Namur. From November 2018 onwards, to face the shortage of doctors in rural areas of
northern France, specialists from the Godinne and
Dinant sites are also at work in the French municipality of
Givet, in the small Givet Medical Center. At the scientific level, the UCLouvain Namur University Hospital is linked with the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (MEDE) of the
University of Louvain, established on the
UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe campus. However, the hospital also maintains relations with the nearby Faculty of Medicine of the
University of Namur (UNamur). It
de facto serves as a
teaching hospital for both universities. ==See also==