Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine

The Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine (CHU Sainte-Justine) or Sainte-Justine University Health Center is a pediatric university health centre affiliated with the Université de Montréal.

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.

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 Quebec, which counts 95 beds, is affiliated with the CHU Sainte-Justine.

Unlike the Montreal Children's Hospital, which is part of the McGill University Health Centre, the CHU Sainte-Justine is entirely independent from the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal, which is another university health centre of the Université de Montréal. In other words, the CHU Sainte-Justine is a health center in itself. The CHU Sainte-Justine also includes an internationally-renowned research center.

Sainte-Justine is currently celebrating its 100th anniversary.

Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine