CHU Sainte-Justine Foundation

In cases of high-risk pregnancies, perinatal medicine or neonatology, the CHU Sainte-Justine excels like no other facility in North America. Our hospital is first and foremost a mother-and-child hospital. Each year, close to 4,000 babies are born at the CHU Sainte-Justine. More than 700 babies are born in the neonatal intensive care unit each year and around 300 others are transferred to the clinic from other facilities to receive state-of-the-art care.

Sainte-Justine is the provincial mother-and-child reference centre for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases, emergency and trauma medicine, and intensive care. Researchers are committed to helping develop new therapies and solutions to prevent and cure diseases and other health problems associated with critical care.

The CHU Sainte-Justine has one of the highest concentrations of neurodevelopmental researchers in Quebec, with over 40 renowned scientists working in cutting-edge genomics and neurobiology facilities. They collaborate closely with clinicians and professionals, and their current challenge is to gain a better understanding of the causes—genetic or environmental—and evolution of brain disease and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Every year, about 150 new patients with immune disorders and cancers are treated at the Centre de cancérologie Charles-Bruneau at the CHU Sainte-Justine. Ours is the only hospital centre in Quebec to perform all types of solid organ transplants and to be accredited for paediatric bone marrow transplants. We also have the largest cord blood transplant centre in the world.