Lavalette Hospital

Lavalette is a relic of the Dutch East Indies era hospital which is still
active today. Lavalette was founded on December 9, 1918 on the
initiative of Large Plantation entrepreneurs who are members of a
Foundation called 'STICHTING MALANGCHE ZIEKENVERPLEGING.
This hospital has been around since the Dutch colonial era. Even the
founder of the hospital is also a doctor from the Netherlands.

Lavalette Kliniek stands on 19,535 m² of paddy fields and 7,870 m² of

yard land. Construction began in 1917 and finished in 1918. On January
17, 1919, this clinic was officially opened, and at that time the name was
still Malangsche Ziekenverpleging. Then in 1922 the clinic changed its
name to De Lavalette Kliniek. This name is taken from the last name
Gerrit Christiaan Renardel de Lavalette. He was a prominent plantation
entrepreneur in Malang in 1912.

When the Japanese occupied Malang, de Lavalette Kliniek was taken

over by the Japanese troops and used as their headquarters for the
Greater East Asia war (perang asia timur raya). These conditions made
Lavalette Clinic unable to provide health services to the local community.

After that de Lavalette Kliniek was reopened, but in 1948, several

members of the Stichting Malangsche Ziekenpleging Foundation which
oversaw the clinic, proposed that the Lavalette Clinic be liquidated.
However, the liquidation proposal was finally canceled accompanied by
various efforts by the foundation to increase financial income, including
by making a part of the Lavalette Clinic a Lung Disease Sanatorium, and
renting rooms from the Lavalette Clinic to other third parties.

In 1958 de Lavalette Kliniek was taken over by an Indonesian

government agency. Until finally in 1961 the Lavalette Clinic was handed
over to PPN and its name changed to Lavalette Hospital until now