Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine

CHU Sainte-Justine
Location in Montreal
Geography
Location 3175, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
H3T 1C5
Coordinates 45°30′11″N 73°37′28″W / 45.5031°N 73.6244°W / 45.5031; -73.6244Coordinates: 45°30′11″N 73°37′28″W / 45.5031°N 73.6244°W / 45.5031; -73.6244
Organisation
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

The Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine (CHU Sainte-Justine) is the largest mother and child centre in Canada and one of the four most important pediatric centres in North America. This university health centre is 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 the hospital centre by 60%.

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