The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) (in French, Centre universitaire de santé McGill) is a network of teaching and community hospitals in Montreal, Quebec, Canada affiliated withMcGill University.
The MUHC has one Board of Directors and was formed from the legal merger of Montreal General Hospital, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal Neurological Hospital and the Montreal Chest Institute, which had already merged with the Royal Victoria Hospital. The most recent member of the MUHC is The Lachine Hospital and Camille-Lefebvre Pavilion.
A teaching hospital, the MUHC is officially a bilingual institution, providing services in bothFrench and English, as well as a number of other languages, as necessary.
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[edit]Clinical care
The MUHC provides tertiary and quaternary care to patients from across Quebec and elsewhere, as well as primary and secondary care and trauma emergency services to adults and children in the Montreal region. The seven clinical missions of the MUHC are: Pediatric Medicine (The Montreal Children’ s Hospital), Medicine, Surgery, Neurosciences (The Montreal Neurological Hospital), Women’s Health, Mental Health and Cancer Care.
[edit]Research
The Research Institute of the MUHC is an internationally recognized biomedical and healthcare hospital research centre. It supports over 500 researchers as well as 1,000 graduate and postdoctoral students. It operates more than 300 laboratories devoted to a broad spectrum of fundamental and clinical research and it produces over 1,400 scientific publications per year.
[edit]Teaching
Each year, close to 3,000 people train at the MUHC, including 825 medical and surgical residents, 1,075 nurses, 450 medical students and 525 allied-health students. Continuing education programs are also an integral part of providing the best patient care. All physicians at the MUHC are cross-appointed to the McGill University Faculty of Medicine.
[edit]Future
When its new buildings are completed, expected in 2014, the MUHC will close several of its current hospital facilities and replace them with the new state-of-the-art campus at the former Glen Railyards, near the Vendôme metro station. The present site of the Montreal General Hospital, to be called the Mountain Campus, will remain open as a downtown general hospital with an Emergency Department with level 1 trauma unit. This plan received the green light from the Quebec government in June 2007 and will proceed as a public private partnership (PPP). The future location of The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital) has not yet been determined (see The Gazette, June 19, 2010http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/media/news/item/?item_id=164315). The McGill-affiliated, Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children plans to move to a separate building on the MUHC Glen Campus, which will also have a pediatric pavilion housing the Montreal Children's Hospital.
[edit]Facilities
The MUHC network is formed by:
- Montreal General Hospital
- Royal Victoria Hospital
- Montreal Children's Hospital
- Montreal Neurological Hospital
- Montreal Chest Institute
- Lachine Hospital and Camille Lefebvre Pavillion
The MUHC is closely connected to the Shriners Hospital-Canada, which is also affiliated to McGill University.
