Clemenceau Hospital

Inaugurated in 1908 by Georges Clemenceau , the Clemenceau Hospital is a traditional pavilion-style structure opened at the beginning of the 20th ^century to replace the Hôtel-Dieu, which was considered at the time to be “unsanitary and impractical” by municipal officials. It is the original historical site of public hospitalization in Caen.

Having become a regional hospital center in 1945, it is one of the main sites of the Caen University Regional Hospital Center.

From 1925 to 1973, pavilion 2 housed the Caen cancer center (now Centre François Baclesse) .

Within the hospital grounds is the Vaubenard manor house from the ^16th and 17th centuries ^, formerly a mattress factory, which is listed as a historical monument .

The hospital is largely decommissioned as part of the 2022-2026 Institutional Project . A new district called “Coteaux de l'Abbaye” combining housing, services, and businesses. A few hospital buildings are being preserved (the chapel and surrounding buildings, the manor house, the entrance pavilions, and the gardener's house) .