The dévé wing

Felix Dévé Pavilion was inaugurated on December 8, 1975. It was the first largest building at the time (128 m long, 8 floors, 570 hospital beds) marking the beginning of the reconstruction of the regional hospital centre of Rouen situated on Charles Nicolle Hospital site. It was part of the modernization of the hospital which became a University hospital in 1965

Two other buildings : the central ring (1980) and the Deroque pavilion (1991) were built later finalizing the project approved by Simone Veil , Minister of Health during the inauguration of Dévé Pavilion in 1975

Dévé Pavilion is a block that brings together and coordinates highly specialized medical and surgical disciplines with 2 resuscitation units and an emergency department, with the aim of making patients benefit from scientific and technological innovations on a site open to the population, bringing together complementary disciplines and promoting dialogue between healthcare professionals.

Thus, DévéPavilion is home to orthopedic, digestive, heart, thoracic and vascular surgery as well as infectious diseases, il also hosts neurology, neurosurgery, neurological explorations (electroencephalogram) , ENT and maxillofacial surgery. The creation of poles in hospital (2007) naturally led to the identification of” a head and neck pole”

Operating theatres are located on the 7th floor.

On the 8th and last floor there is a restaurant where medical and administration staff meet, a library, and an amphitheatre dedicated to research and staff training. Above, there is a landing platform for helicopters. “Le Samu“ is located just next to it.

As time goes by, Dévé Pavilion had to be enlarged and its functioning harmonized with the other structures of the CHU especially with the Central Ring which height was raised raised. In 2005, 30 years after its construction, the building splits into an extension which became the Flaubert Pavilion while its block joined the Central Ring to form one of its wings “ The Dévé Wing”: this extension allowed the reorganization of the emergency department, the integration of the forensic medical service receiving victims of violence (Casa) and the creation of 180 hospital beds for new disciplines.

In 2016, the Chu has started new titanic works for a period of 6 years: the Pavilion will have to modernize once again and to adapt to other structures: reorganization of internal and geriatric medicine, creation of consultation platforms, abandonment of operating theatres and resuscitation services……therefore. A building in constant evolution