An important capital Campaign in support of two century-old hospitals!
We invite you to watch this moving video featuring Mr. Harry Daghlian, a patient who has spent countless hours undergoing dialysis; Dr. Rioux, Head of the Division of Nephrology; and Mr. Mathieu Laliberté, a nurse, as they share why a new dialysis centre is urgently needed and essential for patient care. Please take note that the video is in french only.
Each week, hundreds of patients come through the doors of Sacré-Cœur Hospital for hemodialysis treatments. For them, dialysis isn’t optional — it’s lifesaving. It enables them to keep living their lives, even though their kidneys can no longer function on their own. However, dialysis comes at a cost. Patients must spend hours at a time, several days a week, hooked up to a machine and confined to an often uncomfortable stretcher.
The place where they receive this treatment is far more than just another hospital unit. For many patients, it becomes part of their daily reality — almost a second home. They deserve a space that preserves their dignity and responds to their needs for comfort, safety, and privacy. A modern dialysis unit where healthcare teams have the room and the right equipment to deliver the highest quality care to Mr. Daghlian and to every patient who relies on this essential treatment.
“I chose to become an ambassador for the capital campaign because I truly believe Sacré-Cœur embodies what a university teaching hospital should be — comprehensive, specialized, and academically driven. It plays a vital role in keeping our healthcare system balanced, serving not only Montreal but all of Quebec.
People have, right in their community, a century-old institution with a proud legacy of compassionate, attentive care. At the same time, it is a leading-edge academic hospital serving a region where nearly 25% of Quebec’s population resides. More people need to know this.
At Sacré-Cœur, there are experts in every field and specialty. When you speak with them, you quickly see the depth of their ambition — for the hospital and for the level of care they want to provide to patients. When you truly listen to them, you immediately understand why supporting this campaign matters.”
Yves Gougoux
Campaign Ambassador
Chairman of the Board of Publicis Canada
The Montreal Sacré-Cœur Hospital and the Albert-Prévost Mental Health Hospital are century-old institutions, deeply rooted in their communities.
Their teams perform miracles everyday. They welcome patients with compassion, support them through the challenges of illness, and provide care marked by kindness. Driven by ambitious goals, they innovate to improve treatments and save lives — benefiting both current and future generations.
The Montreal Sacré-Cœur hospital is celebrating 100 years in 2026. Nearly 2 million people, or 25% of Quebec’s population, are likely to be treated there due to the expertise developed in different medical fields.
As a leading university hospital, it has been affiliated with the Université de Montréal for more than 50 years, and is grounded in three essential pillars: medical and health sciences education, research, and cutting-edge clinical care.
Long known as the Pavillon Albert-Prévost, or “PAP,” as it is affectionately called, it is now the Albert-Prévost Mental Health Hospital. It celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2019. This institution has left a lasting mark on Quebec’s history, with leading specialties such as child and adolescent psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry. Its influence stems as much from the education it provides as from the care it delivers to patients.
Together, these two hospitals serve a growing and aging population with increasing healthcare needs. To continue delivering the exceptional care they are known for, they must evolve and modernize.
This major fundraising campaign seeks to raise $45 million to bring to life priority projects that will have an immediate impact on the daily lives of thousands of patients and the dedicated healthcare teams who care for them. Sacré-Cœur and Albert-Prévost need the support of generous donors to equip their hospitals with the latest medical technologies and modern facilities — ensuring patients benefit from the most advanced care while the hospitals continue advancing on the path of excellence.
Here are the six priority projects chosen for their meaningful impact on patients’ lives:
This campaign will bring vital, long-term changes to the hospital — improvements that will benefit everyone who works here and every patient who receives care.
Thanks to the generosity of supporters like you, these six projects will become a reality — transforming the daily lives of patients, empowering healthcare teams, and advancing the work of researchers. One of these initiatives, the modernization of the Spinal Cord Injury Unit, has already been completed, showing just how powerful your support can be.
Since its full renovation in 2023, the Spinal Cord Injury Unit is equipped with better-suited facilities, creating an environment that is both more functional for healthcare staff and more comfortable for patients.
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the $1.1 million renovation of the Spinal Cord Injury Unit brought significant improvements:
Caring for Spinal Cord Injury Patients
The Spinal Cord Injury Unit treats patients who have sustained spinal cord injuries. These injuries can result in paraplegia, tetraplegia, or quadriplegia, leaving patients with limited mobility and increased vulnerability. They rely on the highly specialized care provided at Sacré-Cœur.
Thanks to donors to the capital campaign, these patients now benefit from a better-adapted environment. For individuals whose lives have been deeply affected by an accident, this upgraded environment offers the supportive, engaging care they need to regain independence as fully and quickly as possible.
In accordance with the recognition policy of the capital campaign Let's change lives together, you will find here the names of individuals, corporations and organizations who have contributed in this campaign.
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Bovet, Pierre Fondation Lise et Giuseppe Racanelli Fondation Mirella et Lino Saputo Fondation Molson Fondation Sandra et Alain Bouchard Power Corporation du Canada |
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Banque Nationale Guillevin International The Morris & Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation |
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BMO Banque de Montréal Famille Berthelet Famille Roberta et Charles Taite Fondation J. Armand Bombardier METRO TFI International |
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Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec CIBC Cogeco Communications Corporation Fiera Capital Cyr, J.V. Raymond Fondation familiale Ronald Reuben iA Groupe financier Samson, Caroline MD St-Laurent, Louis Succession Monique Meunier Cotellesso |
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Bouchard, Josée MD Cie de Publication Alpha Fondation Luc Maurice The Mary & Ben Zukierman Legacy Fund |
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Arden Holdings Behaviour Interactive Bourgeois, Michel CMDP CIUSSS du Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal Enertrak Fondation Alain Paquet Fondation Antoine Turmel Fondation Denise Dagenais Fondation Hervey Morin et Yolande Thibault Gagnon, Claude Gaudreau, Henri Industrie Palettes Standard (IPS) L'Écuyer, Jacques Mohammed Kanwal Family Foundation Soeurs de la Providence - Province Émilie-Gamelin The Vartan & Lise Toroussian Foundation |
Altru Foundation
Arsenault, Christine MD
Bastien, Robert
Becker, Giuliano MD
Bergeron, Paul
Bernier-Jean, Amélie MD
Bertelli, Christiane MD
Berthiaume, Réjean
Bouchard, Robert J.
Brunelle, Sarah MD
Carbonneau Bourgeois, Lucille
Cavayas, Yiorgos Alexandros MD
Costa, Remo
Costisella, Olivier MD
Dagenais, Gilles
De Beaumont, Louis
Deschamps, Mario
Desrosiers, Micheline
Di Pierro, Pasquale
Diodati, Jean MD
Doucet, Michel MD
Duda, Barbara MD
Febrer, Guillaume MD
Fondation Denise et Robert Gibelleau
Fondation Famille Bertrand
Gilbert, Danielle MD
Gingras, Isabelle MD
Goupil, Rémi MD
Greek Orthodox Church of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel
Hadjis, Alexios Evangelos MD
Jeff and Geraldine Hart Family Foundation
Jodoin, Alain MD
Khoueir, Jihad Paul MD
Lafond, Chantal MD
Laroche, Mathieu MD
Laroussi, Leila MD
Le, Van Hoai Viet MD
Lebel, Alain MD
Leblanc, Claude
Les Placements Solicom
Lespérance, Sylvie MD
Madore, François MD
Magnier, Vickie
Malo, Jean-Luc MD
Mannarino, Eugenio
Martin, André
McQuade, Pénélope
Montplaisir, Jacques MD
Moramarco, Jessica MD
Morin, Louis
Nadeau, Réginald MD
Nguyen, Sébastien MD
Ouellet, Robin MD
Pagé, Maude MD
Palisaitis, Donald MD
Pelland, Pierre
Pichette, Maxime MD
Pitre, Bernard
Poulin, Frédéric MD
Primeau, Vanessa MD
Radiance Media
Raymond-Carrier, Stéphanie MD
Rioux, Jean-Philippe MD
Rodimax
Roy, Robert
Sauvé, Claude MD
Savoie, Josée MD
Schampaert, Erick MD
Senécal, Marie-Frédérique
Sinnett, Daniel
Smith, Marc-André MD
Soulière, Vicky MD
Sturmer, Marcio MD
Succession Jeannine Grégoire
Tanguay, Louis A.
Tellier, Marie-Claude
Tessier, Pierre MD
The Janie and Michael Etinson Fund
The Jonathan and Susan Wener Family Foundation
The Kenny and Lynn Etinson Foundation
Théberge, Josée MD
Thibault, Alexis MD
Troyanov, Stéphan MD
Troyanov, Yves MD
Tsagarelis, Georges
Whittom, Renaud MD
