Editing Amiens (section)

===Health===
The Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) or, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire of Amiens Picardie, is organized around four sites:
* South Hospital, ''Avenue René-Laënnec''
* North Hospital, ''Place Victor-Pauchet''
* Saint-Victor Centre, 354 ''Bis Boulevard de Beauville''
* Obstetrics and Gynaecology Centre, 124 ''Rue Camille-Desmoulins''

Since 2014, the four sites have been gradually gathered on the current site of the South Hospital, with the exception of the long stay units for the elderly remaining in the Saint-Victor Centre. This merger will be completed in 2016 and allow the CHU of Amiens to increase its national and inter-regional dimension. This group represents the largest hospital construction of France and one of the most important in Europe with more than €630 million for work and equipment. At the end of the work, the total space of the CHU of Amiens will be {{convert|172000|m2|sqft}}. It will total three blocks of hospitals with 400 beds each. The CHU of Amiens is the largest employer in the [[Picardy]] region. At the end of the merger, there will be 6,700 employees, 1,300 students of the health professions, and 1,250 consultants who will go there each day.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://amiens.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/communication/publications/amiens-forum/AF28.pdf |title= Quel accès pour notre hôpital ? |date= February 2012 |work= Amiens Forum |access-date= 16 May 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131111234148/http://www.amiens.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/communication/publications/amiens-forum/AF28.pdf |archive-date= 11 November 2013 |url-status= dead |df= dmy-all }}</ref>

In order to maintain the availability of health units to the north of the city, a health center will open its doors in the first quarter of 2016, at the crossroads of the ''Avenue de l'Europe'' and the ''Rue Maurice-Ravel''. This health space of {{convert|1200|m2|sqft}} will host general practitioners and specialists of the CHU such as: cardiologist, a service of gynaecology-obstetrics, psychologists, dentist, and masseurs-physiotherapists. There is a promise of a {{interlanguage link|permanence of care|fr|3=Permanence des soins}}, 7 days a week and 24 hours a day.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://fr.calameo.com/read/0012028354a62d519eecb|title=Des soins au plus près des habitants|first=Lysiane|last=Voisin|journal=JDA|issue=140|access-date=9 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904084633/http://fr.calameo.com/read/0012028354a62d519eecb|archive-date=4 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Alongside the CHU, there are three private clinics, resulting from the consolidation of old clinics in the city. These care and hospitalisation institutions for medical, surgical, and obstetrics came together to create a private hospital center in the Vallée des Vignes neighborhood, south of the city.
* Polyclinic of Picardy, 43 ''Rue Alexandre Dumas''
* Clinic of Europe, 5 ''Allée des Pays-Bas''
* Victor Pauchet Heath Group, 2 ''Avenue Irlande''

The CHU of Amiens figured in 11th place in the ''2013 awards of the hospitals and clinics'' of the magazine ''[[Le Point]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.courrier-picard.fr/region/le-chu-d-amiens-bien-note-dans-le-classement-des-hopitaux-ia0b0n167893|title=Le CHU d'Amiens bien noté dans le classement des hôpitaux du " Point "|date=27 August 2013|work=Le Courrier picard|access-date=27 August 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112001004/http://www.courrier-picard.fr/region/le-chu-d-amiens-bien-note-dans-le-classement-des-hopitaux-ia0b0n167893|archive-date=12 November 2013}}</ref> In this ranking, the CHU stands out for ankle surgery (3rd), hip prosthesis (5th), foot surgery (7th) and paediatrics (14th). In this same classification, the Victor Palmer Health Group, equipped with a solid "mother-to-child hub", gained a 5th place in the table for the gynaecological clinics and an 8th place for breast cancers.

In 2005, the CHU of Amiens became of international renown thanks to Professor [[Bernard Devauchelle]], a native of the city, where his team performed the first partial [[face transplant]] in the world.<ref>{{cite magazine |url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1137683,00.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20051207070222/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1137683,00.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 7 December 2005 |title= Medicine: A Transplant First |first=Christine|last=Gorman|date=4 December 2005|magazine= [[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date= 7 April 2013 }}</ref>