The Nice University Hospital Center (CHU) and the Antoine-Lacassagne Center (CAL) have combined the expertise of their Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery hospital services within a brand new six-story building, the University Institute of the Face and Neck, which opened its doors on August 22, 2011.
-It will be inaugurated on Thursday, March 22, 2012, at 12 pm – 31 Avenue de Valombrose – Nice
The IUFC: an innovative tool for cooperation at the service of patients and a unique hospital-university reference center in France
The IUFC is a “resource” Healthcare Cooperation Group that consolidates medical activities and technical platforms on a single site under a unique organizational format, ensuring the public service mission for the represented specialties. It becomes the hospital-university reference center in terms of healthcare, teaching, research, and public health.
All adult care in the following specialties is grouped at this site:
-Otorhinolaryngology and cervical-facial surgery
-Stomatology and maxillofacial surgery
-Face and neck surgery
-Cancerology of the Upper Aerodigestive Tracts (UAT)
-Phoniatrics
-Dentistry and audiology
The medical activity is organized based on service lines that manage patients identically, regardless of the entry point, CHU or CLCC.
These service lines pool all necessary multidisciplinary skills by involving other specialties, imaging, nuclear medicine, biology, pathology anatomy, and cytology, among others.
Innovative and pioneering, the primary objective of the IUFC is to establish a center of expert care and recourse for patients in the PACA East region, particularly for cancer patients. It also aims to become a national and international center of reference and expertise for all adult face and neck pathologies.
The estimated cost of construction and equipment for the IUFC amounts to €35 million, including all expenses. Its financing, benefiting from the 2007 hospital plan, is secured through borrowing, supplemented by a €1 million grant from the General Council of the Alpes-Maritimes.
Born from a medical initiative in 1997 led by Professors François Demard (then an ENT Surgeon at CAL) and José Santini (then Head of ENT at CHU), this project of excellence, common to both the CHU and the CAL, supported by the successive managements of both Institutions and the authorities, became a reality 14 years later.
