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Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine (
CHU Sainte-Justine) is a pediatric university health centre affiliated with the
Université de MontréalThe Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...
, located in
MontrealMontreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
,
QuebecQuebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
,
CanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. It is a designated French-language hospital, and has a designated bilingual English-French counterpart,
Montreal Children's HospitalThe Montreal Children's Hospital is a tertiary care pediatric teaching Hospital affiliated with the McGill University Health Centre. It is also the only pediatric facility serving the McGill Réseau Universitaire Intégré Santé...
.
Founded in 1907 by
Justine Lacoste-BeaubienJustine Lacoste-Beaubien was one of the founders of the children's hospital Sainte-Justine Hospital....
, 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.
The CHU 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
QuebecQuebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, which counts 95 beds, is affiliated with the CHU Sainte-Justine.
The CHU Sainte-Justine is a health center in itself. The CHU Sainte-Justine also includes an internationally renowned research center.
The CHU Sainte-Justine celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2007.
See also
- Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montreal
The Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal , or Université de Montréal's Hospital Center, is one of the two major hospital networks in Montreal, the other being the McGill University Health Centre...
(CHUM)