St. Mary's Hospital (Montreal)

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St. Mary's Hospital
Location in Montreal
Geography
Location 3830, avenue Lacombe
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
H3T 1M5
Coordinates 45°29′41″N 73°37′27″W / 45.494722°N 73.624167°W / 45.494722; -73.624167Coordinates: 45°29′41″N 73°37′27″W / 45.494722°N 73.624167°W / 45.494722; -73.624167
Organisation
Care system RAMQ (Quebec medicare)
Hospital type Teaching
Affiliated university McGill University Faculty of Medicine
Services
Emergency department Yes
Beds 271
Speciality Oncology, General surgery
History
Founded 1924
Links
Website http://www.smhc.qc.ca/en/

St. Mary's Hospital (French: Centre hospitalier de St-Mary) is a Canadian hospital located in Montreal, Quebec. Affiliated with McGill University, St. Mary's is an independent teaching hospital. The hospital is located at 3830 Lacombe Avenue in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. Serving a very ethnically diverse community, staff members are able to communicate in over 30 different languages. St. Mary’s is an integral part of the Réseau universitaire intégré de santé (RUIS) McGill.

History

St. Mary's Hospital was founded in 1924 by Sister Helen Morrissey and Dr. Donald A. Hingston. First a 45 bed institution located at Shaughnessy House (now the Canadian Centre for Architecture) in the Shaughnessy Village neighbourhood of Downtown Montreal, it has since moved to its current location in 1934 where it has 271 beds.


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