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Description

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A Tradition of Excellence
The McGill University Health Centre MUHC located in Montreal Quebec is one of the most comprehensive university health centres in North America

The MUHC is a University Health Centre affiliated with McGill University and consists of the Montreal Childrens Montreal General Royal Victoria and Montreal Neurological hospitals as well as the Montreal Chest Institute The most recent member of the MUHC is the Lachine Hospital and CamilleLefebvre Pavillon

Our Mission
Clinical Care Our multidisciplinary teams of healthcare professionals provide tertiary and quaternary care to patients from across Quebec and elsewhere We also provide primary and secondary care and trauma emergency services to adults and children in the Montreal region The eight clinical missions of the MUHC are Pediatric Medicine The Montreal Children s Hospital Medicine Surgery Neurosciences Womens Health Mental Health Cancer Care and Lachine amp Camille Lefebvre

Research The Research Institute of the MUHC is an internationally recognized biomedical and healthcare hospital research centre The Institute supports over 500 researchers as well as 1000 graduate and postdoctoral students It operates more than 300 laboratories devoted to a broad spectrum of fundamental and clinical research and it produces over 1400 publications per year

Teaching The MUHC prides itself on the quality and rigour of its clinical and scientific training Each year close to 3000 people train at the MUHC including 825 medical and surgical residents 1075 nurses 450 medical students and 525 alliedhealth students Continuing education programs are also an integral part of providing the best patient care All physicians at the MUHC are crossappointed to the McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Reacuteseau Universitaire Inteacutegreacute de Santeacute RUIS

The Queacutebec Ministry of Health and Social Services created four integrated university health networks RUIS across Quebec in 2003 The MUHC is the university hospital in the McGill hospital network The affiliated regions include central and western Montreal the western part of the Monteacuteregie Outaouais AbitibiTemiscamingue the Cree territory James Bay and Nunavik These territories represent a population of 17 million people living across 953000 square kilometres

The McGill RUIS coordinates tertiary healthcare services teaching and research activities within this territory and provides specialized care and training activities to the regions

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History

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What is the MUHC

The original partner hospitals that make up the McGill University Health Centre MUHCthe Montreal Childrens Royal Victoria Montreal General and Montreal Neurological hospitals and the Montreal Chest Institutealong with McGill University make the MUHC the leading institution it is today In April of 2008 the Lachine Hospital and CamilleLefebvre Pavillion became the newest members of the MUHC

Milestones
A quick glance at a few of the major accomplishments made at the MUHC over the past two centuries

2008

New Intensive Care Unit ICU at the Montreal Chest Institute The new ICU includes individual rooms with flatscreen TVs patient lifts and an enhanced ventilation system and nursing monitoring station The 18 million project was financed by the Montreal Chest Institute Foundation through the Best Care For Life campaign

The worlds first robot anesthesiologist McSleepyquot The worlds first robot anesthesiologist McSleepy joined the surgery team this year The MUHCdeveloped technology constantly monitors patients during surgery and adjusts and administers anesthetic drugs allowing its human colleagues to focus more on other aspects of direct patient care

2007

Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program Adolescents and young adults have a lot to deal with leaving home starting university and launching a career For some there is another lifealtering source of stress a diagnosis of cancer Ready to help is the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program

The Child Development Program Based at the Montreal Childrens Hospital the Child Development Program helps children who require special assistance with complex issues such as socioemotional health language or behaviour

Enlisting robots to help with surgery The newest member of the MUHC health care team is actually a machine a surgical robot to be precise Robotic surgery allows surgeons to perform prostate surgery more quickly and with greater precision for faster recovery

Family medicine comes to the community Good family medicine starts with good access Thats why the MUHC Family Medicine Department relocated this year to a highlyaccessible extendedhours clinic in the heart of NDG

Lifesaving new procedure a resounding success In a worlds first surgeons at the MUHC led by Dr Renzo Cecere implanted a minimallyinvasive cardiac support system called the Impella 50 into a patient suffering from acute rejection after a heart transplant The life saving operation allowed the patients condition to stabilize and respond to antirejection medications

2005

First frozen egg baby born in Canada The McGill University Health Centre MUHC in Montreal is pleased to announce the first successful birth in Canada resulting from frozen eggs Read the press release

Surgeons at the MUHC have successfully implanted a new kind of mechanical heart in two patients the first time this new technology has been used in Canada Read the press release

2004

MUHC Doctors Perform First Artificial Ureter Reconstruction in Canada Dr Steven Paraskevas McGill University Health Centre MUHC transplant surgeon and Dr Maurice Anidjar MUHC urologist recently performed the first artificial ureter reconstruction in Canada

A firstever study of how evolving diagnostic and therapy guidelines in conjunction with community programs affect breast cancer population mortality Read the press release

2003

Investigators at the Research Institute of the MUHC identify a gene that regulates the susceptibility to tuberculosis

An international research team led by MUHC Research Institute scientists Dr Erwin Schurr and Dr Thomas Hudson identify a gene on chromosome 6 that makes people vulnerable to leprosy

2002

Mechanical heart device Berlin heart is used successfully for the first time in Canada at the MCH as a bridge to transplant on the youngest patient ever in North America

Launch of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Centre for Beta Cell Replacement at McGill University and Universiteacute de Montreacuteal headed by Dr Lawrence Rosenberg of the MUHC

MUHC researchers identify a gene underlying a common form of epilepsy

Investigators from the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology find that organs can be successfully transplanted following freezing and storage in liquid nitrogen

2001

First hospital in Quebec MUHC team to perform EXIT Procedure EXutero Intrapartum Treatment to deliver a baby

2000

First Foetal Diagnosis and Treatment Group Developed as a McGill University Health Centre MUHC team

1999

Doctors deliver the worlds first twin birth following drugfree invitro maturization

1998

The MUHC becomes the first teaching hospital among Canadas universities to eliminate film in CT Scans MRIs and ultrasound

1997

First Transcultural Psychiatry Clinic in Quebec

1996

First pediatric hospital in Quebec to create a Short Stay Unit

First Multicultural Clinic in Quebec

1995

First pediatric voice and speech laboratory Gustav Levinschi Laboratory in Canada

1994

First pediatric hospital in Quebec to offer transoesophageal echography for young children

1993

First hospital in Quebec to have a Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit

First pediatric hospital in Quebec to offer magnetic resonance imaging MRI

1991

First hospital in Quebec to offer ExtraCorporeal Membrane Oxygenation ECMO

First living donor pediatric renal transplant program in Quebec

First hospital in Quebec to develop a Pediatric Advanced Life Support Program PALS

1990

Doctors perform Canadas first hearing device boneimplant on a child

First hospital in Quebec to establish an Injury Prevention Program

1988

Heart transplant to the youngest recipient ever in Canada

1986

Doctors perform Quebecs first Cochlear implant in a child

1985

Canadas youngest liver recipient undergoes successful organ transplant

1981

The first North American minicyclotron are installed

1980

Doctors perform Canadas first pediatric bone marrow transplant

1977

First CT scan performed in a pediatric setting in Canada

1975

Canadas first EMI body scanner is installed

First hospital in Canada to establish a community pediatric research program

1973

Canadas first CT scanner is installed

1971

First hospital in Quebec with a Pediatric Burn Unit

1966

First therapeutic heart catheterization in Canada A lifesaving procedure to create a hole within the heart of a quotblue babyquot

1960

First Canadian pediatric hospital to open a centre for children with learning disorders

1958

Doctors perform the first kidney transplant in Canada

First Mental Assessment and Guidance Clinic for the intellectually handicapped in Quebec

1957

Pioneering of open heart surgery and first operation in Queacutebec on a child

1950

First pediatric hospital in Canada to establish a Psychiatry Department

First pediatric hospital in Canada to establish a Department of Medical Genetics

1946

First cardiac catheterization performed in Canada

Canadas first cyclotron the second largest such machine in the world is installed in the Foster Radiation Laboratory

1938

Canadas first operation to repair a congenital heart defect is performed

1937

The development of the first Canadian otolaryngological soundproof room

1933

First Speech Therapy department in a Canadian pediatric hospital

1932

First respirator in the world designed Later version known as the quotIron Lungquot

1896

First clinical Xray taken in Canada

1825

McGill creates Canadas first medical school

1822

Dr William Robertson performs the firstever operation at the newly built Montreal General Hospital now MUHC