About the MUHC
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 represents five teaching hospitals affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University: The Montreal Children’s, 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 Camille-Lefebvre Pavillion.
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Building on the tradition of medical leadership of these founding hospitals, the MUHC continues to shape the course of academic medicine by attracting clinical and research authorities from around the world and by training the next generation of medical professionals. And it continues to provide the best care for life to patients of all ages.
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 seven clinical missions of the MUHC are: Pediatric Medicine (The Montreal Children’ s Hospital), Medicine, Surgery, Neurosciences, Women’s Health, Mental Health and Cancer Care.
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 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 publications per year.
Teaching: The MUHC prides itself on the quality and rigour of its clinical and scientific training. 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.
Réseau Universitaire Intégré de Santé (RUIS)
The Québec 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 Montéregie, Outaouais, Abitibi-Temiscamingue, the Cree territory, James Bay and Nunavik. These territories represent a population of 1.7 million people living across 953,000 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.
The New MUHC
The MUHC is developing a 21st century model of academic medicine with a $1.579-billion Redevelopment Project on two campuses, the Mountain and the Glen. The Lachine Hospital will remain at its currrent location. Our vision is a MUHC for the new century where patients receive the most advanced and complex care and where medical research and teaching are integrated into all of our activities.
The new MUHC will provide single patient rooms, dedicated family areas and welcoming public spaces, as well as diagnostic and treatment areas that will accommodate the most advanced medical technologies and information systems. Both the functional and aesthetic design will support a healing environment for The Best Care For Life for children, adults and the elderly. Please click here to learn more about the MUHC’s Redevelopment Project.