Centre Hospitalier Sud Essonne

What Centre Hospitalier Sud Essonne does

Centre Hospitalier Sud Essonne Dourdan-Etampes (CHSE) is a French public hospital (établissement public de santé) created in January 2011 through the merger of the former Dourdan and Etampes hospitals, serving the southern Essonne department in the Île-de-France region. The hospital operates two sites — a main site in Etampes (26 avenue Charles de Gaulle) housing emergency services, Level 2A maternity with neonatology, surgery, EHPAD "Le Petit Saint Mars," and a full technical plateau (radiology, scanner, MRI, laboratory), and a secondary site in Dourdan (2 rue du Potelet) housing Level 1 maternity, pediatrics, dialysis, and the new emergency department opened January 28, 2026. CHSE delivers a comprehensive care portfolio spanning emergency medicine with SMUR mobile resuscitation, MCO hospitalizations (intensive care, general medicine, surgery, obstetrics, neonatology, pediatrics), post-acute SSR rehabilitation, long-term care via EHPAD and USLD, cancerology, addiction care (CSAPA alcoology), urology (lithotripsy and Holmium YAG laser), dialysis, and clinical research.

Technically, CHSE maintains a digital medical infrastructure including computerized patient records with integrated voice recognition (deployed 2025), 4D ultrasound with HDLive at the Dourdan maternity (installed 2013), MRI with co-utilization agreements with private radiology cabins, CT scanning enabling virtual colonoscopy (coloscanner, acquired 2012), Holmium YAG 30W urological laser (MegaPulse 30+), extracorporeal lithotripsy, and mammography. The hospital's technology stack is characterized by incremental modernization of equipment and gradual digital transformation, rather than proprietary platform development.

CHSE operates under the French T2A (Tarification à l'Activité) public reimbursement system, with services covered by Sécurité sociale and complemented by patient co-payments and complementary insurance (mutuelle). As a public establishment under the Ministry of Health and ARS Île-de-France, CHSE has no private shareholders; financing flows through state reimbursement, ARS subsidies (e.g., €4.1M for EHPAD construction against a €16.97M total investment), and France Relance funding (~€1M in 2023). The hospital is governed by a Conseil de Surveillance and led by a Director, with a Projet d'Etablissement 2021-2025 guiding its strategic direction. Customer segments span general public, women/children (mother-child pole), elderly/geriatric patients, and addiction patients; key operational metrics include over 1,600 births in 2012 across both sites and over 40% ambulatory surgery rate in 2012.

Name

Centre Hospitalier Sud Essonne

Legal name

CENTRE HOSPITALIER SUD ESSONNE DOURDAN-ETAMPES

Website

https://ch-sudessonne.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Centre Hospitalier Sud Essonne is a French public hospital operating two sites in Dourdan and Etampes, serving the southern Essonne population with emergency, maternity, surgical, geriatric, dialysis, and specialty care under the national T2A reimbursement system.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Hospital Services

NAICS

General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (62211)

SIC

Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, Nec (8062)

akta.pro primary industry

Critical Access & Rural Hospitals (HLAFAAAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Outpatient Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Treatment Programs (HLAFABAD)

Keywords

• Public hospital services
• Emergency medicine
• Maternity and obstetrics
• Rehabilitation care
• Geriatric care

Headquarters

HQ city

Étampes

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Public Healthcare Services: As a public hospital (établissement public de santé), CHSE operates under the French healthcare financing system (T2A - Tarification à l'Activité) where services are reimbursed by the national health insurance (Sécurité sociale) based on diagnosis-related groups. Patients contribute through co-payments and complementary insurance (mutuelle).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Centre Hospitalier Sud Essonne operates as a multi-site French public hospital providing acute inpatient care, outpatient consultations, emergency services, and long-term care to residents of southern Essonne. Its core services span medicine, surgery, obstetrics/maternity, pediatrics, oncology, dialysis, urology, rehabilitation, and geriatric care across its Dourdan and Étampes sites.

Product overview

Centre Hospitalier Sud Essonne operates as a public hospital with two sites (Dourdan and Etampes) offering a comprehensive range of healthcare services. The hospital provides emergency care (Urgences/SMUR), inpatient services (MCO) including intensive care, surgery, obstetrics-maternity with neonatology, and pediatrics. The technical platform includes medical imaging (radiology, CT, MRI, mammography, ultrasound) and laboratory services. Specialized services include cancerology, clinical research, addiction care (CSAPA), dialysis, and urology. Long-term care is provided through EHPAD nursing homes and USLD long-term care units. The hospital also offers outpatient consultations, therapeutic patient education, and vaccination services. The hospital has been modernizing with investments in voice recognition for patient records, new emergency facilities, and expanded imaging services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Emergency medicine services

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 1,600 births in 2012 across both sites
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• AP-HP (Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Research partnership on peer-aidance (pair-aidance) in breast cancer, conducted in collaboration with AP-HP as a major academic hospital system
• GHT (Groupement Hospitalier de Territoire)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Territorial Hospital Group participation; acceleration of information system convergence within the GHT network; articulation of care pathways with territorial partners
• 12 Regional Hospital Establishments (KISS Program)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Inter-regional hospital clinical research program KISS on prevention of confusion syndrome during septic shock, led by a CHSE practitioner alongside twelve hospital establishments
• EHPAD Network of Etampois (Saint Joseph, Petit Saint Mars, Domaine de la Chalouette)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 January 2013Cooperation convention signed January 15, 2013 between three EHPADs for shared animation activities, pooling of human and material resources, and joint projects
• Hôpital d'ArpajonminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation in urology for development of urinary calculus treatment center, combining human and technical resources on the Etampes site

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Centre Hospitalier de Versailles: Public general hospital in Yvelines department (Île-de-France) with comparable service breadth and peri-urban positioning. Closest functional peer in scale, scope, and French public hospital operating model outside of Essonne itself.
• Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Denis: Public general hospital in Seine-Saint-Denis serving a peri-urban catchment with similar service mix and operational challenges. Comparable as a regional public hospital facing analogous demographic pressure and capital constraints in Île-de-France.
• Centre Hospitalier d'Arpajon: Neighboring Essonne public hospital already cooperating with CHSE on urology services. Comparable in scale and rural-peri-urban setting, and representative of the smaller partner-type hospitals within the same GHT network.
• Groupe Hospitalier Nord-Essonne: Public hospital group operating in northern Essonne with similar general hospital services. Directly comparable as a same-department public hospital facing analogous demographic and competitive dynamics.
• Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF): Major public hospital serving southern Île-de-France (Corbeil-Essonnes) within the same Essonne department. Most direct geographic peer with overlapping catchment, similar acute care, maternity, and emergency services at comparable scale.
• Hôpital Foch: Private non-profit (ESPIC) hospital in Suresnes (Île-de-France) with comprehensive multi-specialty services including maternity, surgery, and emergency. Comparable in service scope and quality positioning despite the different non-profit operating model.
• Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Créteil (CHIC): Public general hospital in Val-de-Marne (Île-de-France) with similar multi-specialty service profile, scale (1,000+ employees), and territorial mandate. Directly comparable as a regional public hospital serving a defined catchment with emergency, maternity, geriatrics, and specialty services.

Broad incumbents

• Ramsay Santé: France's leading private hospital group with 350+ facilities nationwide. While operating under a private model with a different patient mix, Ramsay Santé represents the principal private-sector competitive threat for ambulatory and elective surgical volumes across Île-de-France.
• Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP): France's largest public academic hospital system with 39 hospitals across Île-de-France. While significantly larger, AP-HP is both a CHSE research partner and the dominant regional incumbent that draws complex cases — defining the broader competitive and collaborative context for CHSE's positioning.
• Elsan: Major French private hospital group operating 120+ clinics across France. Represents a structural private-sector competitor for outpatient consultations and elective surgery in the same geography, with growing ambulatory and specialty positioning.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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