Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine

Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine
Location in Montreal
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
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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.

Child and a nun at the hospital, 1945.
1945 Fundraising

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.

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