Volume 8, Issue 1

In 1997, the MUHC's five founding hospitals came together to form a comprehensive university health centre and Research Institute where patients receive seamless lifelong care alongside world-leading teaching and medical discovery.

Across the adult sites of the MUHC, the food patients eat during their stay is monitored by one of the nearly 50 staff members of Clinical Nutrition Services who are supervised by Janis Morelli, Manager of Clinical Nutrition.

Through an important discovery by an MUHC researcher and thanks to a generous donation from Best Care for Life campaign donors, diabetes may one day be a disease of the past.

Dr. Anthony Dobell, a pioneer in both adult and pediatric cardiovascular thoracic surgery, was among the first physicians in Canada to perform open-heart surgery.

The generosity of several major campaign donors and the community’s enthusiastic participation in our recent fundraising events have been indispensable in moving us ever closer to our $300-million target.

Lorne Steinberg, Managing Director of Magna Vista Investment Management, shares some useful year-end tax planning tips.

A pulse oximeter sends pulses of varying wavelengths of infrared light into the body to measure the percentage of oxygen contained in the blood.

The McGill University Health Centre’s (MUHC) redevelopment project is on a solid path forward with the selection of two consortia as candidates for the private-sector partner in the Public Private Partnership (PPP) that will create the Glen campus.