FXB Foundation - FXB Home Palliative Care Center - Paris

Following on from the Centre FXB de soins palliatifs à domicile (FXB Home Palliative Care Center), which was the brainchild of Albina du Boisrouvray in Valais in 1992, she set about replicating the successful Swiss model in Paris in 1997, to enable people to die at home if they so wished.

The FXB Center in Paris offers home palliative care to people in the irreversible stages of illness, when curative medicine proves powerless. Its approach is comprehensive. On a day-to-day basis, it combines nursing care with psychological and practical support for both the sick person and their loved ones. Albina also wanted to alleviate the moral pain of patients and their families, and it was with this in mind that she insisted on setting up bereavement groups, which are indispensable pillars of the multidisciplinary team's action. In 2001, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, at the rank of chevalier, by the French government for her pioneering work in home palliative care.

In 2003, the Fondation Croix Saint-Simon and FXB decided to merge their structures, which led to the integration of all palliative care activities into the Fondation Croix Saint-Simon, including the François-Xavier Bagnoud documentation center, where they are pursued and developed in accordance with the principles and values that have always guided FXB's actions.

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