FXB Foundation

FXB Foundation – FXB Home Palliative Care Centre – Paris

In the continuation of the FXB Home Palliative Care Centre, born from the will of Albina du Boisrouvray in Valais in 1992, she undertook to reply in Paris in 1997. This model has been successfully tested in Switzerland to allow people who wanted to die at home.

The FXB Centre in Paris offers palliative home care to people in irreversible stages of illness, when curative medicine proves to be helpless. Its intervention is a global approach. It combines daily nursing care, psychological and practical support, both to the sick person and to those around him. Albina also wanted to alleviate the moral pain of the sick and their families and it was with this in mind that she wanted to set up mourning groups that are indispensable pillars of the action of the multidisciplinary team. In 2001, she was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor, a knight, by the French government for her innovative work in the field of palliative care at home.

Starting in 2003, the Croix Saint-Simon Foundation and FXB carried out a reconciliation of their structures which resulted in the integration of all palliative care activities into the Croix Saint-Simon Foundation, including the François-Xavier Bagnoud documentation centre where they are continued and developed in accordance with the principles and values that have always guided FXB's action.

In 1991, the FXB Foundation donated a fire truck to the firefighters of Lévis-Saint-Nom near Paris, some of whom were childhood friends of François-Xavier Bagnoud.