The institutions run by the Lebanese Franciscans Sisters of the Cross
Founded in 1946, it is an hospital for physically disabled and elderly. It hosts today 535 patients who come for treatment or for spending their last days in an atmosphere of tranquility and comfort with the good surveillance of the nuns. In addition to medical care, this hospital provides the patients with entertainment activities, spiritual accompaniment, and the staff with spiritual and vocational training. It is worth mentioning that the hospital has become an important center and a large field for practical training, and human and vocational skills acquisition. It hosts a number of students specializing in nursing sciences and physiotherapy, from all universities and medical and nursing institutes.
Founded in 1948, it is one of the major health institutions in Lebanon. In spite of the destructive effects of the war, the hospital continued to function and resisted for the sake of man and the mission it holds in a wounded and suffering country. Providence intervened again in the projects of the Man of Providence, Abouna Yaacoub. It is the Providence who sent Mr. Raymond Najjar with his wife Aida to the hospital to build the highly technical and well-equipped Raymond and Aida Najjar Medical Center. The old hospital was destroyed to be replaced by a triangle composed of:- Raymond and Aida Najjar Medical Center- Medical Department- Technical DepartmentThe hospital is composed of 187 beds receives medical and nursing students from the Université Saint-Joseph and other universities for training. On October, 22, 2002, the hospital signed a partnership convention with the Saint Joseph Hospital in Paris in order to exchange expertise and develop medical and technical continuous training. The hospital is bound to apply the Lebanese Law and medical deontology along with its staff, by virtue of the Vatican Charter for the health pastorate. It meets all international standards and norms of the accreditation program of the hospital institutions decided by the Lebanese Ministry of Health.