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Health education is of growing interest to patients, healthcare workers, and healthcare institutions in France. To develop this activity in the Rhône-Alpes region, a survey of hospital healthcare education programs was conducted. An initial questionnaire was sent to healthcare institutions throughout the region in order to identify the various projects and their coordinators. A follow-up questionnaire was sent to these coordinators in order to help them describe their project as comprehensively as possible. The results were made available for public use on a website. Among the 326 medical institutions contacted, 117 responded, from which 217 questionnaires were analyzed. The analysis showed the importance attached to this type of activity, the variety of institutions that organize them, and the diversity of the topics covered. However, management and promotion were less developed in these healthcare education programs.