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Montreal Children's Hospital(French:Hôpital de Montréal pour enfants) is achildren's hospitalinMontreal,Quebec,Canada.Founded in 1904, it is affiliated with theMcGill University Health Centre(MUHC) andMcGill University,Faculty of Medicine.
| Montreal Children's Hospital Hôpital de Montréal pour enfants | |
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| McGill University Health Centre | |
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 At the Glen Site | |
  Location in Montreal | |
| Geography | |
| Location | 1001 Décarie Boulevard, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Coordinates | 45°29′20″N73°34′56″W/ 45.48878°N 73.582091°W |
| Organization | |
| Care system | RAMQ(Quebec medicare) |
| Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | McGill University Faculty of Medicine |
| Network | McGill University Health Centre |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 154 |
| Speciality | Pediatric hospital |
| Public transit access |   Vendôme Metro Station |
| History | |
| Opened | 1904 |
| Links | |
| Website | www.thechildren.com |
| Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
The hospital has 154 single-patient rooms, 52-bed neonatology unit, 6 operating rooms and 6 intervention rooms. It has two blocks. Block A has pediatric outpatient services. Block B has pediatric inpatient units, which include a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). It houses a pediatric emergency department, operating rooms and perioperative services, day hospitals and some Allied Health Services.[1]
History
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The Montreal Children's Hospital (MCH) first opened on the rented premise of 500Guy Streeton January 30, 1904. It was the first hospital in Montreal with the sole mandate of providing care for sick children. In 1909, the growing number of patients required a move to new premises on Cedar Avenue, designed byDavid Robertson Brown(1869–1946).[2]In 1920, the hospital became ateaching hospitalaffiliated withMcGill University.
The hospital has achieved a number of "firsts", including the first speech clinic in a pediatric hospital in 1933, the first division ofmedical geneticsin 1949 and the first department ofpsychiatryin 1950. The neonatology division was the first to create a neonatal transport team in Québec, dedicated to the ground transportation of unstable newborns.[3]As well, in 1991, the neonatology division created the first provincialextracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) programto assist neonates withsevere respiratory distressandpulmonary hypertension.[3]The Montreal Children's Hospital, affiliated to McGill University, is now home to the only training programs forpediatric nurse practitioner,neonatal hemodynamics,neonatal follow-upandneonatal scholarin the province of Quebec. The increasing number of services required another expansion. A relocation took place to 2300 Tupper Street in 1956, and it was renamed the Montreal Children's Hospital.
In August 1997, the Montreal Children's Hospital merged with theRoyal Victoria Hospital,theMontreal General Hospital,theMontreal Neurological Institute and Hospitaland theMontreal Chest Instituteto form theMcGill University Health Centre.
The location of the Montreal Children's Hospital at 2300 Tupper Street officially closed at 11:00 on May 24, 2015, after 68 patients were transferred to the newGlen Siteat 1001Décarie Boulevard.The new Glen Site Montreal Children's Hospital opened its emergency doors at 5 a.m. The Glen Site is composed of different hospital centres. Since the move to the Glen site, the Montreal Children's Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital have the capacity to provide on-site advanced maternal and perinatal care, such asex-utero intrapartum treatment.[3]It is the only centre on the island of Montreal with fully array of intensive-care (includingfetal interventions,ECMO,dialysis,neurosurgery,extreme of prematurityandcardiac surgery) for both the mother and the newborn.
In 2011, it was the first pediatric hospital in Quebec to usehigh-frequency jet ventilationin the context ofneonatal respiratory failure.[3]It also has a strong tradition of pediatric and neonatalresearch,with some laboratories doing translational work in the clinical context, such as: theNeoCardioLab,theNeoBrainLab,theNeonatal Health Systems Research,theabcdResearch laband theSmart Hospital.
Gallery
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Girls bedridden, 1938 -
Children bedridden outside, 1938 -
2300 Tupper Street
See also
edit- Montreal's other pediatric hospitals:
References
edit- ^Montreal Children’s Hospital (23 April 2015)."Glen site facility overview".Retrieved2017-03-11.
- ^'Brown, David Robertson', inThe Canadian Who's Who(1929)[full citation needed]
- ^abcdDepartment of Pediatrics, McGill University."Innovations - Neonatology".McGill University - Neonatology - Montreal Children's Hospital.RetrievedApril 18,2022.