St. Mary's Hospital (Montreal)

For other uses, see Saint Mary's Hospital.

St. Mary's Hospital (French: Centre hospitalier de St-Mary) is a hospital located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.^[2][3] Affiliated with McGill University's medicine programs, 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.

St. Mary's Hospital
CIUSSS de l'Ouest-de-L’Île-de-Montréal[1]
Location in Montreal
Geography
Location	3830, avenue Lacombe Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1M5
Coordinates	45.494722°N 73.624167°W / 45.494722; -73.624167
Organisation
Care system	RAMQ (Quebec medicare)
Type	Teaching
Affiliated university	McGill University Faculty of Medicine
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	271
Speciality	Oncology, General surgery
Public transit access	Côte-des-Neiges station STM Bus Routes: 119, 165, 465 and 369
History
Opened	1924
Links
Website	http://www.smhc.qc.ca/en/

History

St. Mary's Hospital was founded in 1924 by Sister Helen Morrissey and Dr. Donald A. Hingston.^[4] 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.^[5]