page_title: AZ Groeninge
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: AZ Groeninge / History
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwhospitaal in Kortrijk English: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwhospitaal ("Hospital of Our Lady") in Kortrijk. Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium.
context_page_description: AZ Groeninge is a large teaching hospital, affiliated with the Flemish KU Leuven Hospital network, in the Belgian city Kortrijk. The hospital is the result of a merger of four hospitals in Kortrijk and is in number of beds -in its current form- the fifth largest hospital system in Belgium. The -in 2017 opened- new 1000+ hospital bed facility at the Kennedylaan is one of the largest hospital sites in Belgium.
context_section_description: In 2003, four hospitals in the Belgian city of Kortrijk merged: Kliniek Maria's Voorzienigheid (founded in 1937), Onze-Lieve-Vrouwehospitaal (1211), Sint-Niklaasziekenhuis (1958) and Sint-Maartenziekenhuis (1955). This resulted in a single hospital with a non-profit status as it is a public–private partnership between the City of Kortrijk and the Boards of the former Christian hospitals. With the merger all specialties were effectively centralized at one campus. In 2005 the construction of one large hospital facility in the neighbourhood of "het Ei in Kortrijk" started. Between 2010 and 2016 the campuses of Sint-Niklaas, Sint-Maarten and Maria's Voorzienigheid moved into the new hospital. The historic campus of the Medieval Our Lady Hospital will remain open longer, to accommodate administrative services and prolonged-care units such as the palliative care unit, but the ultimate aim is to also relocate these services to the Kennedylaan.
caption: View of the 17th century court of the Augustinian monastery of the campus Reepkaai (dedicated to Our Lady) of AZ Groeninge and its predecessor Onze-Lieve-Vrouwehospitaal
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