Hopital Libanais

The Lebanese Hospital was founded in 1927 by father Joseph Selwan Geitaoui

The Lebanese Hospital Geitaoui, one of the first hospitals in Lebanon, was founded in 1927 by father Joseph Selwan Geitaoui. The hospital administration was entrusted by the founder to the Congregation of the Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family established by Patriarch Elias El Hoyek in 1895.

As a multidisciplinary care hospital, the Lebanese Hospital Geitaoui is a religious non-profit hospital with mission to treat all patients without any exception regardless of race, class or creed. It is a Church property, a Wakf, and benevolently is administrated. The medical body is carefully selected and acts as a liberal profession.

The board of directors is headed by Mother Gabrielle Bou Moussa, Superior General of the Maronite Sisters. Sister Hadia Abi Chebli and Doctor Pierre Yared assume the general management.

Since its foundation, the Lebanese Hospital Geitaoui has been a pioneer in providing state-of-the-art investigation and treatment technologies, such as:

1969: first hemodialysis equipment in Lebanon

1981: first CT scanner imaging center in Lebanon

1988: first lithotripsy center in Lebanon

1992: first center in Lebanon for the seriously burnt

1996: cardiac catheterization unit for pediatrics and neonatology

2006: acquisition of a MDCT scanner with a sophisticated software for the diagnosis of cardio-vascular pathologies

2007: addition of 42 beds and opening of an underground parking

2009: inauguration of two new services

2010: launching the scheduled expansion and development of the hospital with the construction of a new eight-story building with patients' rooms, a new hemodialysis center, a new operating block with central sterilization, a new and better equipped pharmacy, a modern archiving center, a conference hall and a second underground parking.

The hospital activity is oriented towards strategic hubs for medical activities and extensive surgery:

General and all specialties surgery

General and internal medicine for all medical specialties including oncology

Conventional and interventional cardiology

Mother – Child, with the Department of Obstetrics, Neonatology and Pediatrics

A center for the severely burnt as a reference center for taking in charge such patients

Para clinical examinations especially medical imaging and interventional radiology

The Lebanese Hospital Geitaoui encompasses 175 beds allocated as follows:

Surgery/Medicine: 70 beds (palliative care beds included)

Resuscitation/Intensive care: 8 beds

Ambulatory surgery: 17 beds

Chemotherapy: 12 beds

Burn victims center: 12 beds

Hemodialysis center: 12 machines

Maternity: 10 beds

Pediatrics: 16 beds

Neonatology: 3 incubators

The key services are:

Hospitalization services: 5 units

Operating room: 4 rooms + 1 room in the third-degree-burns center

Interventional cardiology: 1 room

Bronchoscopy: 1 room

Gastric endoscopy – colonoscopy- ERCP- Ph- metric : 2 rooms

Physical Therapy and functional rehabilitation with out-patient services

Diagnostic and interventional radiology with T 64 Scanner and MRI

Medical analysis laboratory

Blood bank

Emergency department open 24 hours

Urodynamics

Lithotrity

EEG

Stress test, Holter monitor

Hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis