McGill University Health Centre


The McGill University Health Centre is one of two major healthcare networks in the city of Montreal, Quebec. It is affiliated with McGill University and is one of the largest and most modern health centres in North America. The majority of its funding comes from Quebec taxpayers through the Ministry of Health and Social Services. The MUHC provides specialized inpatient and ambulatory (outpatient) care.
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History

The MUHC is the result of a voluntary merger in 1997 of the Montreal General Hospital, the Royal Victoria Hospital, the Montreal Chest Institute, the Montreal Children's Hospital, and the Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital. In 2008, the Lachine Hospital and the CHSLD Camille-Lefebvre became a part of the MUHC. . The project is scheduled to be completed between 2026 and 2027.

Activity and Capacity

MUHC is a bilingual academic health centre. In addition to providing services in French, the MUHC is designated to offer services to patients in English. As of 2024, the MUHC employs more than 14,500 people:
The Institute employs more than 3,500 people, including:
  • 723 researchers in basic, clinical and evaluative science, including 529 with funding
  • 1,386 students, including 410 master's, 602 doctoral and 174 postdoctoral students, and approximately 200 clinical research trainees
  • 1,420 research and administrative staff
Every year, more than 5,000 people are trained at the MUHC. This includes more than:
The institution's mandate is to provide tertiary and quaternary care to the population of Montreal and Quebec. The extended network of regions and health service centres that the MUHC covers is known officially as the Réseau universitaire intégré de santé et de services sociaux McGill, or RUISSS McGill. The territory of the RUISSS McGill represents approximately 63% of Quebec's land area and measures almost 800,000 square kilometres.
The RUISSS McGill regions are:
  • Montreal
  • Outaouais
  • Abitibi-Témiscamingue
  • Nord-du-Québec
  • Montérégie
  • Nunavik
  • James Bay-Cree Territories
The MUHC is the largest combined adult and children's hospital in the province, providing all aspects of specialized and complex care to both populations among its sites, with pediatric, adult, and cancer services being combined at the Glen site.
As a principal teaching site of the McGill University Faculty of Medicine, a key activity is medical education. In addition, The Institute is an international research centre with a worldwide reputation in the field of biomedical sciences and health care.
The Institute has:
  • ongoing research collaborations with 85 countries worldwide
  • around 2,550 peer-reviewed scientific publications per year
  • 1,600 ongoing projects
  • over 180,000 research participants per year
  • 744 fundamental, clinical and evaluative researchers
  • 1490 research trainees
  • 1476 staff in research and administration

OPTILAB Montréal-CUSM

In 2020, the MUHC's multi-site laboratory OPTILAB Montréal-CUSM became the first of the 12 OPTILAB clusters in Quebec to receive ISO certification from the Bureau de normalisation du Québec and the Standards Council of Canada (SCC).
OPTILAB Montréal-CUSM's territory spans from Montreal to Abitibi. Its laboratories provide support to several healthcare establishments, ranging from large academic health centres to smaller rural ones.
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Hospitals and sites that make up the MUHC

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Affiliated hospitals

The following hospitals are affiliated with the McGill Faculty of Medicine but are not integral parts of the MUHC:

Historical Controversies

The 2004–11 tenure of Arthur Porter, a politically active Montreal physician, as the hospital's CEO received $22.5 million in consulting fees from SNC-Lavalin and then awarded the firm with a $1.3 billion contract related to the construction of the hospital. These dealings were found to be in violation of the Quebec Health Act. Porter resigned on December 5, 2011. Porter left Canada and was apprehended by Interpol agents with his wife in Panama, where he was imprisoned and died from cancer in 2015 while awaiting his extradition to Quebec.