Initially built to serve the Jewish community of East Paris, it specializes in geriatrics, physical therapy and rehabilitation as well as several different aspects of dentistry, notably periodontology and dental implants.

Declared a military auxiliary hospital during the First World War, it received wounded from the front and civilian victims regardless of their religious background.

[2] On 15 June 1918, the hospital was hit during a raid by German air forces.

During the German occupation of France in World War II, it was placed under the control of Nazi occupying forces and used as a detention center.

[citation needed] On 1 January 1954, after forty years of private management, the Rothschild family donated the hospital to the Paris public hospital system for the symbolic cost of one Franc.