Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal

The Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM, translated as University of Montreal Health Centre) is one of two major healthcare networks in the city of Montreal, Quebec. It is a teaching institution affiliated with the French language Université de Montréal. The CHUM is one of the largest hospitals in Canada; a public not for profit corporation, it receives most of its funding from Quebec taxpayers through the Ministry of Health and Social Services as mandated by the Canada Health Act. The CHUM's primary mission is to provide inpatient and ambulatory care to its immediate urban clientele and specialized and ultraspecialized services to the broader metropolitan and provincial population. Its mandate also includes pure and applied research, teaching, and the evaluation of medical technology and best healthcare practices. Every year, more than 500,000 patients are admitted for care at the CHUM. An additional 3,394 employees and 530 volunteers supported the work of the main staff. The long and troubled history of the CHUM superhospital began in 1999, when then health minister Pauline Marois announced that the megaproject would go ahead for a price tag of 700 million dollars and be built at 6000, Saint Denis Street, the site of a major bus depot. In 2003, the incoming Liberal government of Jean Charest questioned this decision and launched a commission presided by Daniel Johnson and Brian Mulroney to study other sites. Phase 2, the main hospital, was completed in 2017. Phase 3, the administrative buildings, is expected to be completed in 2019, following demolition of Hôpital Saint Luc. Laing O'Rourke, in a joint venture with Spain's Obrascón Huarte Lain, is delivering the project as a public private partnership (PPP).

The central campus of the CHUM, itself simply known as the CHUM, is located at 1051 Sanguinet Street, with underground city access to Champ de Mars metro station. It was opened to patients on October 8, 2017. Two secondary buildings of the central campus are located on Saint Denis Street and were both built during the first phase of the megahospital between 2010 and 2013. Pavillon Edouard Asselin at 264 Rene Levesque East Boulevard, built in 1959 and formerly part of the now defunct Hôpital Saint Luc, is also a component of the megahospital.

The Hôtel Dieu is Canada's second oldest healthcare institution, founded in 1645. Located on Saint Urbain Street near downtown Montreal, it functioned as a full service teaching hospital and maintained an emergency department with level II trauma care capabilities. The hospital contained the CHUM's advanced palliative care departments, and offers specialized and ultraspecialized acute and chronic care in cardiology and pulmonology. It was home to Canada's largest and busiest burn and neuro vascular units. Inpatients were moved to the megahospital on 5 November 2017, but Hôtel Dieu will remain partially in operation for non emergency health care and administrative offices until the final phase of the central campus has been finalized in 2021. As such, Hôtel Dieu remains affiliated with the CHUM for the time being. It ended its affiliation with the CHUM and returned into being a general hospital, integrated to the CIUSSS du Centre Sud de l’Île de Montréal network.

The Saint Luc hospital, located at the intersection of Saint Denis Street and René Lévesque Boulevard in one of the poorest areas of Montreal, was a full service teaching hospital and maintains an emergency department with advanced level I trauma care capabilities. The hospital was home to the CHUM's geriatrics, endocrinology, dermatology, hepatology, gastroenterology, gynecology, nephrology and social services departments.