Generations dedicated to healing and care
The Lebanese Hospital Geitaoui - UMC, one of the first hospitals in Lebanon, was founded in 1927 by Father Joseph Selwan Geitaoui. The hospital administration was entrusted by the founder to the Congregation of the Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family, established by Patriarch Elias El Hoyek in 1895.
As a multidisciplinary care hospital, the Lebanese Hospital Geitaoui - UMC is a religious non-profit hospital with a mission to treat all patients without exception, regardless of race, class, or creed. It is Church property (Wakf) and benevolently administered. The medical staff is carefully selected and practices as a liberal profession.
The board of directors is led by Mother Marie Antoinette Saadeh, Superior General of the Maronite Sisters. Sister Hadia Abi Chebli and the former Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the Lebanese University, Professor Pierre Yared, oversee general management.
The Lebanese Hospital Geitaoui acquired University Medical Center status in 2013 upon signing an agreement with the Lebanese University’s Faculty of Medical Sciences.
Innovations and Milestones:
- 1969: First hemodialysis equipment in Lebanon
- 1981: First CT scanner imaging center in Lebanon
- 1988: First lithotripsy center in Lebanon
- 1991: First MRI equipment in Lebanon
- 1992: First center for severely burnt patients in Lebanon
- 1996: Pediatric and neonatal cardiac catheterization unit
- 2006: MDCT scanner with advanced cardiovascular diagnostics
- 2013: Achieved University Medical Center status
- 2014: Implemented new-generation PACS for medical imaging
- 2015: Opened Center of Excellence for Hypertension
- 2016: Established Centers of Excellence for Neurophysiology and Obesity treatment
- 2017: Opened a new building on March 18th
- 2019: Launched the Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit
- 2019: Launched the new Cardiac Center for Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology
- 2020: Rebuilding began after Beirut Port Blast
- 2021: Inaugurated new Emergency and Outpatient Departments
- 2022: Opened Cardiac Surgery Unit (CSU)
- 2024: Launched the Rheumatology, Pediatric, Neonatology, Obstetrics, and Gynecology centers
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October 10, 2024
Beirut's Geitaoui hospital burn unit: 'We won't be able to go on without help'
With the intensification of Israeli strikes in Lebanon
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October 8, 2024
Lebanon's only burn center says it may not be able to keep running if war with Israel continues
As Israeli airstrikes intensify in Lebanon
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October 8, 2024
“We are by ourselves.”
Dr. Pierre Yared and Sister Hadia Abi Chelbi, co-directors of Lebanon’s only burn center
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October 17, 2024
L’hôpital de Geitaoui au chevet des enfants brûlés par des bombardements israéliens
Le centre de soins pour grands brûlés de l’hôpital Geitaoui, à Beyrouth
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October 20, 2024
Appel au secours des brûlés
Un patient gravement brûlé au Centre des brûlés de l’Hôpital libanais-Geitaoui. Olivia Le Poidevin/L’Orient Today
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