Our Completed Projects

Together, Let’s Move Care Forward

It is thanks to the great generosity of our donors that we are able to support the teams at Sacré-Cœur, Albert-Prévost, and Rivière-des-Prairies by providing state-of-the-art equipment and funding ambitious research projects. Physicians and health care professionals are thus equipped with advanced tools to diagnose, treat, and care for patients with even greater efficiency and precision.

Since its founding, the Foundation has contributed more than $100 million to bring life-changing projects to fruition.

 

Two Major Projects Made Possible by Your Donations

The Integrated Trauma Centre (ITC)

Traumatology is a centre of excellence at the Montreal Sacré-Cœur Hospital. Completed in 2021, the Integrated Trauma Centre (ITC) has made the hospital one of the largest tertiary trauma centres in Canada—and the largest in Montréal.

The Foundation played a catalytic role in bringing the ITC to life, a project born from the innovation and determination of Sacré-Cœur’s trauma experts. This initiative also included the development of new facilities for the Family Birthing Centre and the Endoscopy Service—two long-awaited relocation projects.

Multiple benefits included:

• Physicians, nurses, researchers, educators, and other professionals from the trauma team are now brought together under one roof, fostering collaboration, access to the latest innovations, improved patient care, and the saving of more lives.
• A more efficient multidisciplinary team and a comfortable, compassionate, and spacious environment, better suited to the recovery of patients receiving intensive care on the second floor of the ITC.
• A tertiary trauma centre with an integrated maternity unit. The relocation of the Family Birthing Centre (formerly the Mother and Child Unit) has enhanced care for high-risk pregnancies in neonatology and added rooms designed to optimize the quality of care for families.
• Larger spaces and up-to-date technologies in the Endoscopy department.

 

Acquisition of a PET-CT Scanner and Expansion of the Nuclear Medicine Department

The acquisition of the PET-CT scanner stems from the vision of Sacré-Cœur’s nuclear medicine specialists to improve patient care. From the outset, they received the Foundation’s support, which led a fundraising campaign that raised $3.4 million toward the purchase of the PET scanner.

The acquisition of the PET-CT launched a complete modernization of Sacré-Cœur’s Nuclear Medicine Department. Today, the service features larger, more comfortable spaces and numerous pieces of state-of-the-art equipment.

This project has a tangible day-to-day impact for both the Nuclear Medicine teams and patients:

• An expanded range of services centered on three main areas: general nuclear medicine, nuclear cardiology, and PET imaging;
• Priority access to PET scans, enabling faster and more accurate cancer diagnoses;
• The ability to conduct research projects aimed at improving care for patients with certain types of cancer.