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DEBATE: Challenges to AIDS prevention
November 15th, 2012 As part of World AIDS Day, held on Saturday, December 1 st , the McGill University Health Centre, in collaboration with the Consulat général de France à Québec, organized a debate discussing new challenges facing the prevention of …
2012 Director General's Awards
November 19th, 2012 On Saturday, November 17, the McGill University Health Centre honoured the exceptional contributions of ten individuals and one team representing each job category at its 2012 Director General’s Awards Gala. Simultaneously, we …
First concrete laid for the Lachine MRI
November 22nd, 2012 Good news for the Lachine Hospital! Things are moving quickly for Phase 1 of the project to install a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner that is adapted for obese or claustrophobic clients. After two weeks of preparation and …
Inauguration of the Saint-Joseph Hospital
November 29th, 2012 The Lachine Hospital, formerly known as the Saint-Joseph Hospital, was created through the efforts of the former parish priest of Lachine, Joseph-Télesphore Savaria, who wished to build a hospital for his parishioners. The Sisters of …
The Pharmacy service of the Lachine Hospital
November 29th, 2012 The Pharmacy service of the Lachine Hospital was looked after by nuns for many years. It was only in 1974 that responsibility for dispensing medications was transferred to pharmacists. Today, the role of the pharmacists has evolved …
Surgery from the 1930s to 1960
November 29th, 2012 At the former Saint-Joseph Hospital, the department of surgery was separated into operating and sterilization rooms. The furniture included a gurney and a portable stretcher, two sterilizers, an operating table and a glass table, …
Providing care during hard times
November 29th, 2012 From 1929 to 1935, the impact of the Great Depression was certainly felt in a city as dependent on industry and manufacturing as Lachine. During this period, the number of visits to the sick at home (3,280) and to the poor …
Women’s auxiliary, big-hearted volunteers
November 29th, 2012 In 1948, the Association des Dames de charité, which was funded by donations and various activities, became known as the Dames patronnesses. In 1954, the name changed again to the Dames auxiliaires of the Lachine Hospital. In 1964, …
On the path to progress
November 29th, 2012 Nurse Desgroseillers-Ménard, who graduated as a nurse in 1958, recalls that female students had two loyal companions: Oscar, the skeleton used for demonstrations of the bone system, and Philomène, the dummy sacrificed at the hands of …
The province takes over the hospital
November 29th, 2012 The Government of canada passed the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act in 1957, but Premier Maurice Duplessis refused to apply it in Quebec, arguing that health care was a provincial jurisdiction. It was only on January 1, …