After six months of hard work, the new Palliative Care Unit was inaugurated this summer. The unit comprises fourteen single rooms and one double room, all of which have a television and comfortably accommodate family members.
The New Palliative Care Unit at the Montreal General Hospital is complete and has been operational since July 10th, 2008. After six months of intense effort, the unit comprises fourteen single rooms and one double room, all of which have a television and comfortably accommodate family members. The new unit also offers a sitting room, a therapeutic bathroom, an office locale for the multidisciplinary team, space for consultation and medication preparation, and a conference room. In addition to the Cedars Cancer Institute, we are indebted to the Montreal General Hospital Foundation, the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and our donors, which provided the necessary funds to create this vital healing environment. Considerable thanks are also due to the teams on ICU-9, Neurosciences-14 and Hemato-Oncology-17, as well as to Technical Services for their precious collaboration.
Congratulatons on the opening of your new palliative care unit. I am on an End of Life Care committee at Maimonides Geriatric Centre, and would like to visit your unit with my team as we are in the process of developing a program to address psychosocial aspects of dying and death for this centre. Would you please direct me to the appropriate person? Many thanks and again congrats!
-Judy Kolomeir
Thanks to all the staff of the palliative care unit for their dedication and support during the short time that my father, Elgar was a patient in the unit.
-Brenda Harrison
I am a nurse @ the MUHC RVH site and am currently taking a course on Palliative Nursing towards my BSN degree. One of the other students in my class posted this link to share the video and info on this wonderful unit. I’m so thankful that such a wonderful, caring place exists for palliative care patients.
-Donna Kerr