Jacques Necker was a leader in the movement to reform crowded hospitals by building smaller treatment centers closer to the patients' neighborhoods.

Madame Necker subsequently remodeled an old monastery into the hospital,[1] which prior to the French Revolution was known as the Hospice de Charité.

Triage procedures, established all over Paris in 1802, systematically excluded pregnant women, the mentally ill, and venereal patients.

[3] The two physically contiguous hospitals were merged in 1920, but the Necker division continued to care for adults and Enfants malades for children.

[4] In 1987, American artist, Keith Haring, created a mural named Tower, covering a stairwell of the hospital.

[9] His invention's ability to magnify the internal sounds of the body advanced the medical practice of auscultation, and proved beneficial to the Hôpital Necker, which had a high fatality rate for Phthisis pulmonalis.