Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine
Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine | |
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Geography | |
Location | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Coordinates | 45°30′11″N 73°37′28″W / 45.5031°N 73.6244°WCoordinates: 45°30′11″N 73°37′28″W / 45.5031°N 73.6244°W |
Organization | |
Care system | RAMQ (Quebec medicare) |
Hospital type | Specialist |
Affiliated university | Faculté de médecine - Université de Montréal |
Services | |
Emergency department | 63 000 visits yearly |
Beds | 450 (main site) + 95 (Marie-Enfant site) |
Speciality |
Pediatrics Obstetrics |
History | |
Founded | 1907, 1957 (current site) |
Links | |
Website | http://www.chusj.org/en/Home |
Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
The Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine (CHU Sainte-Justine) is a pediatric and obstetric university health centre affiliated with the Université de Montréal, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Founded in 1907 by Justine Lacoste-Beaubien, the CHU Sainte-Justine is one of the largest pediatric health centres in Canada. With its 450 beds, among which 30 are from the intensive care unit, it receives 19,000 inpatients yearly.
Sainte-Justine officially became a university health centre in 1995 and it has, since then, welcomed around 2500 medical students each year.
Since 2000, the Centre de réadaptation Marie-Enfant, the only pediatric rehabilitation centre in Quebec, which counts 95 beds, is affiliated with the CHU Sainte-Justine.
The CHU Sainte-Justine is a health centre in itself. The CHU Sainte-Justine also includes an internationally renowned research centre. It celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2007.
Currently, CHU Sainte-Justine is undergoing major construction. A new building is being built under the project of "Grandir en Santé". This extension will increase by 60% the hospital centre.
See also
- Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montreal (CHUM)
- Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal's other pediatric hospital
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