MUHC: Campus Glen - 12 étages (2015)

[Robertpuant]

Merci Gilbert pour les photos!

 

Wow! Ça own trop comme design! Merde la contruction c'est pour quand ?!

[mcgill]

Thanks for visiting the expo and taking pictures Gilbert.

I had never seen the green roofs before. I hope they stay in the final design.

Question: The building labeled "Cabinets de medecins/Medical Offices" is the Air Canada (formerly Zellers) building. Does anybody know where Air Canada will move their employees?

[mtlurb]

Shriners ready to build at Glen

Will leave Cedar Ave. for MUHC site

AARON DERFELThe Gazette

Thursday, April 17, 2008

 

After years of uncertainty about the fate of the Montreal Shriners Hospital, high-ranking Shriners this week finally approved the construction of a new health-care facility in the city's west end, The Gazette has learned.

 

The Shriners' pediatric orthopedic hospital could cost as much as $100 million, and it is to be built in tandem with the future Montreal Children's Hospital in the Glen yard, straddling Notre Dame de Grâce and Westmount.

 

It is to include outpatient clinics, operating rooms and research laboratories, as well as beds for short-term stays, said Ralph Semb, chairperson of the board of trustees for Shriners Hospitals.

"Montreal is going to have a new facility," Semb said in a phone interview yesterday from Springfield, Mass.

 

"We're going to eventually move out of what we have on the hill," he added, referring to the existing location on Cedar Ave., on the slopes of Mount Royal, which the Shriners Hospital has occupied since 1925.

 

The decision to build a new hospital marks a dramatic shift in policy by the Shriners, a fraternal charitable organization. On three occasions, senior Shriners had tried to close the Montreal hospital and build a new one in London, Ont.

 

And even when Shriners voted against closing the Montreal hospital, Semb ruled out construction at the Glen site, saying the Cedar Ave. complex would be maintained in its current state.

 

But on Tuesday, the joint boards of the Shriners voted to approve construction of a new facility and to work with the McGill University Health Centre on architectural plans.

 

The MUHC oversees the Montreal Children's and is planning to build the future Children's, along with several adult pavilions and research facilities, on the Glen site.

 

"This is wonderful news," said Gary Morrison, chairperson of the board of governors of the Montreal Shriners Hospital.

"Finally, we have gotten past the debate of, 'Do we stay in Montreal?' Now, not only will we stay in Montreal, but we're building for the future. I'm pleased and excited."

Morrison is to make the official announcement today at a news conference at the hospital.

 

In 2005, Morrison was part of a delegation, including Premier Jean Charest, Quebec Health Minister Philippe Couillard and Montreal Mayor Gérald Tremblay, that lobbied Shriners at their annual convention to save the Montreal hospital.

 

The campaign was hard-fought, as Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty also attended the convention to press the case for London. In the end, delegates were won over by a group of children who were flown in from the Montreal hospital.

 

Still, even in the last few months, issues kept coming up to block the Montreal project, a Shriner from Ottawa told The Gazette.

 

"A couple of weeks ago we were at a meeting in Manchester, N.H.," Perry McConnell said, "and we were kind of shocked" to find a lack of progress in the matter.

 

At that meeting, Douglas Maxwell, deputy imperial potentate of the Shriners, was persuaded to raise the issue of a new hospital in Montreal before the joint boards. Maxwell could not be reached for comment.

 

In the coming months, the Shriners and the MUHC are to iron out a number of technical issues to avoid a duplication of services. For example, the Shriners might consider renting some operating rooms from the future Montreal Children's, Semb said. The Shriners could also purchase blood tests from the Children's.

 

Both hospitals would stand next to each other and might even be heated from the same boiler room, Morrison said.

 

Construction of the new Montreal Children's Hospital is set for the spring of 2009. Since Semb said the Shriners would want to build in tandem, construction on their project would probably begin at that time as well.

 

The existing Shriners Hospital has 40 beds. Semb said the future hospital will have far fewer beds, but he couldn't give an exact number.

 

Morrison, however, suggested the new facility might serve a greater number of patients than it does now because Ste. Justine Hospital has indicated it would like all orthopedic procedures to be concentrated at the Shriners.

 

What's more, the Shriners hospital is interested in also being affiliated with the Université de Montréal.

aderfel@thegazette.canwest.com

 

© The Gazette

 

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=e9448b86-9c25-4f31-9a1f-7e0d27471580

[LindbergMTL]

Wow, encore une autre excellent nouvelle! Bon, manque plus que la Coupe!

 

Bob et Guy on compte sur vous!

[ErickMontreal]

Superhospital late another year

Complex vetting process delays project, boosting cost by millions of dollars

 

AARON DERFEL, The Gazette

Published: 7 hours ago

 

Construction of the future hospital of the McGill University Health Centre is facing yet another delay - this one by almost a year - that is sure to increase the cost of the project by tens of millions of dollars, The Gazette has learned.

 

The MUHC was supposed to break ground next spring at the Glen yard in the city's west end, but the construction start has been postponed until the end of 2009 at the earliest.

 

"Every day that goes by that we don't have the green light from the government to launch the project has an impact on inflation," said Yanaï Elbaz, the MUHC's director of planning for the redevelopment.

In September 2006, Quebec official Rémi Pelletier checks out the decontamination of land at the Glen Yard for the new McGill University Hospital Centre. The site looks much the same today.View Larger Image View Larger Image

 

In September 2006, Quebec official Rémi Pelletier checks out the decontamination of land at the Glen Yard for the new McGill University Hospital Centre. The site looks much the same today.

 

"It's about $100,000 a day. And it's silly each time this project doesn't move forward."

 

The sheer complexity of the project, the fact it will be built as a public-private partnership and the requirement to have decisions vetted by two government agencies as well as the Health Department explain the latest delay, Elbaz says.

 

The project actually involves two sites: the

 

Montreal General Hospital and the Glen yard. The MUHC is planning a $250-million expansion of the General that will be financed entirely by the provincial government.

 

Construction of a sprawling hospital-and-research complex at the Glen has been estimated to cost $1.329 billion and will be financed by the private sector. Two private consortia are bidding on the project.

 

The winning bidder will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining the complex for 34 years. The consortium will lease the site to the government to recoup its investment. After the lease expires, the government will regain full ownership.

 

The winning bidder was supposed to be announced by the end of this year.

 

Elbaz, however, said that the MUHC will launch a formal "request for proposals" in August, and then will work with the bidders for at least 44 weeks. By the end of June 2009, the winning bid is to be announced. The MUHC will then spend up to two months working on the "financial close" of the contract with the consortium, he added.

 

Even after the financial close is completed by September 2009, construction would not necessarily begin immediately.

 

"Once you have the contract, then you have a certain period before which you can begin," Cathy Rouleau, an aide to Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc, said yesterday.

 

Elbaz added: "We should be able to start construction at the end of 2009 at the Glen site, not before that."

 

In the past, MUHC officials have said they would prefer that the foundation work start in the spring. Therefore, it's possible that construction might not begin until the spring of 2010.

 

The project was first proposed in 1992. By the late 1990s, MUHC officials predicted the hospital would open its doors by 2005.

 

In 2006, the government approved the MUHC project as a public-private partnership in the hope of avoiding cost overruns while keeping the debt off its books. Treasury Board president Monique Jérôme-Forget promised at the time that the hospital would be built by 2011 and on budget.

 

Yesterday, Rouleau said the timeline for completion is 2013-14. Should the hospital be built two years after Jérôme-Forget's pledge, inflation costs alone will have boosted the final price tag by $72 million.

 

Elbaz conceded it will be difficult, if not impossible, to keep to the original estimate of $1.579 billion for the Montreal General expansion and Glen hospital, given the delays and inflation costs.

 

"That will be one of the many challenges we have," he said.

 

Quebec has no experience with public-private partnerships. In 2005, it established the Agence des partenariats public-privé du Québec to oversee the MUHC project, as well as a similar one by the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal.

 

That same year, the government appointed former Bombardier executive Clérmont Gignac to oversee the two projects as well. He signed on for a five-year contract of $1.2 million. His office has a staff of 14 people.

 

To advise it on the public-private partnership negotiations, the MUHC has hired a British expert, St. Clair Armitage. It has also retained a team of architects and engineers.

 

The consortia, meanwhile, have their own teams of architects and engineers.

 

Every detail of the redevelopment - down to the exact number of light bulbs that will be installed in the new hospital - must be planned well in advance. And every major decision must be vetted by Gignac, the public-private partnership agency and then finally the Health Department and Treasury Board.

 

Rouleau defended the vetting process as responsible management: "We think that citizens expect us to be sure that everything has to be checked on."

 

Rouleau, however, couldn't give a number on the final cost of the MUHC project. "We will know the price once the envelopes are opened and we choose a bidder," she said.

 

Despite the delays, the MUHC is making progress. The federal Canada Foundation for Innovation has approved a grant of

 

$100 million that will go toward research facilities at the Glen.

 

"It's phenomenal news for us that we got the $100 million," Elbaz said.

 

In contrast, the CHUM is still awaiting confirmation of a grant for its project.

 

The CHUM is also mired in a contract dispute with its team of architects and engineers.

 

"For us, that's a non-issue because we were very careful not to sign contracts ahead of time," Elbaz said.

 

aderfel@thegazette.canwest.com

 

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=39b18411-0a5a-4606-b94b-5cf0bb40a23d

 

[blue_dragon]

this is ridiculous .. all because the CHUM can't get its act together .. stupid immobilisme

 

btw this is NOT an english vs. french thing. It's stupid how the francophone media portrays the MUHC as an English hospital, completely innacurate

[cjb]

Tout ce projet de nouvel hôpital, CHUM ou MUHC, est de la pure BS.

Il y a des dizaines d'avocats et de juristes qui gagnent leur vie sur ce dossier depuis des années. Je crois qu'il y a matière à enquête,il y a clairement de l'abus à quelquepart.

[Habsfan]

Tout ce projet de nouvel hôpital, CHUM ou MUHC, est de la pure BS.

Il y a des dizaines d'avocats et de juristes qui gagnent leur vie sur ce dossier depuis des années. Je crois qu'il y a matière à enquête,il y a clairement de l'abus à quelquepart.

UN autre enquète, un autre rapport pour ralentir ces projets encore plus!? Non merci.

 

C'est vraiment pathétique notre situation au Québec. Ça commence à être honteux notre affaire!

[Atze]

Cent millions pour le CUSM

 

 

Le Devoir

Jacinthe Tremblay

Édition du mercredi 20 août 2008

 

Mots clés : Centre universitaire de santé McGill (CUSM), Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation (FCI), Subvention, Science, Québec (province)

 

La FCI alloue au centre hospitalier sa plus importante subvention jamais accordée

La Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation (FCI) annonce ce matin qu'elle contribuera pour 100 millions de dollars moins quelques poussières à la construction et à l'aménagement des nouvelles installations de l'Institut de recherche du Centre universitaire de santé McGill (CUSM), a appris le Devoir. Il s'agit de la plus importante subvention de recherche jamais accordée par l'organisme fédéral.

 

Les détails entourant la subvention elle-même et son utilisation seront dévoilés lors d'une conférence de presse réunissant Suzanne Corbeil, vice-présidente, relations extérieures et communications, de la Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation, plusieurs représentants de l'université McGill et du CUSM, dont son directeur, le Dr Arthur Porter, ainsi que le Dr Vassilios Papadopoulos, directeur de l'Institut de recherche du CUSM. Cet établissement accueille plus de 600 chercheurs et 1000 étudiants de niveau postdoctoral et des cycles supérieurs. Ses axes de recherche sont notamment le cancer, l'endocrinologie, la reproduction humaine, la génétique médicale et les troubles musculo-squelettiques.

 

Le Devoir avait, dans son édition du 27 juin, fait part de la décision du conseil d'administration de la FCI, adoptée 10 jours plus tôt, d'acquiescer à la demande de financement destinée à ces infrastructures du CUSM. La somme alors évoquée était de 50 millions. Lors de la même séance, les administrateurs de la FCI avaient refusé une demande du même type formulée par le Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM).

 

Dans son site Internet, la FCI précise que ses critères pour allouer de telles subventions reposent sur la qualité de la recherche, la nécessité de nouvelles infrastructures et les bénéfices potentiels pour les Canadiens. Les sources consultées par Le Devoir en juin dernier avaient de plus indiqué que, dans cette ronde de distribution, les experts chargés d'examiner les dossiers avaient en plus pris en compte «la probabilité que la construction des installations débute dans les 18 mois suivant l'annonce officielle de la décision de la FCI».

 

Un mois

 

Les nouvelles installations de l'Institut de recherche verront le jour dans le cadre du redéploiement du CUSM sur le campus Glen, un projet réalisé en partenariat public-privé. Selon l'échéancier disponible dans le site Internet de Partenariats public-privé Québec (PPPQ), l'appel de propositions pour la concrétisation de l'ensemble du CUSM, aussi désigné comme cahier de charge détaillé, devrait être présenté «à l'été 2008» aux deux consortiums qui se sont qualifiés pour réaliser le projet. Il reste donc un mois à PPPQ et au CUSM pour respecter l'échéancier annoncé afin de compléter la rédaction du document d'appel de propositions.

 

En théorie, le projet de Centre de recherche du CHUM est plus avancé, puisque Partenariats public-privé Québec a déjà complété et remis aux soumissionnaires le contenu de l'appel de propositions, le 29 mai dernier. Le refus de la FCI de financer le projet n'a d'aucune façon compromis ni stoppé le processus. Dans un communiqué émis à la fin de juin, le CHUM a fait part de sa déception tout en indiquant que le projet irait de l'avant, comme prévu.

 

En entrevue au Devoir en juillet, Yves Bolduc, ministre de la Santé et des Services sociaux, a confirmé l'intention de Québec de tout mettre en oeuvre afin qu'un centre de recherche en santé francophone voie le jour, malgré ce qui pourrait devenir un dépassement de coût substantiel pour Québec si la FCI persistait à ne pas décaisser les 112 millions attendus. «Le fédéral s'était déjà engagé à aller de l'avant et j'ai parlé avec eux depuis ma nomination. Nous allons trouver une solution», a-t-il alors déclaré. Il avait ajouté que «des montants de cette hauteur, sans être des "peanuts", ne sont jamais impossibles à trouver pour des gouvernements quand il s'agit de projets de cette importance.»

 

En fin de journée, hier, l'état du dossier CHUM-FCI n'avait pas bougé depuis ces déclarations. «Nous entendons présenter une nouvelle demande lors de la prochaine ronde de subventions de la FCI», a expliqué Chantal Huot, porte-parole du CHUM.

 

 

http://www.ledevoir.com/2008/08/20/202163.html (20/08/2008 6H47)

[ErickMontreal]

Side-effects feared over hospital grant

 

CHARLIE FIDELMAN, Gazette Health Reporter

Published: 5 hours ago

 

As the McGill University Health Centre celebrated a $100-million grant to create and equip a medical research centre as part of its new megahospital project at the Glen Campus yesterday, one official expressed fears that politics might inflict more delays on the future hospital.

 

That's because while the Canada Foundation for Innovation gave McGill $100 million - the largest investment from the CFI to a single institution in a decade - it left

 

the Université de Montréal teaching hospital in the cold, refusing a similar grant for its megahospital project.

 

Denis Thérien, McGill's vice-principal of research and international relations, said he was thrilled for McGill, but troubles at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal could adversely affect McGill.

 

"It's politics," Thérien said. "And the situation is complicated because of that."

 

The CFI grant will be matched by an additional $100 million in funding from the Quebec government and about $50 million in funds from donors.

 

McGill and U de M officials have insisted since the beginning that the two projects are independent of one another.

 

But both projects, to be executed under a private-public partnership, will be overseen by the government-appointed former Bombardier executive Clérmont Gignac and his staff of 14, who are to scrutinize and vet every construction decision, right down to the lightbulbs.

 

The CHUM will have to get its funding somewhere, Thérien said, because it's inconceivable one hospital will be years ahead of another.

 

"But you live in Montreal. You know the context. It's impossible to imagine that the McGill hospital will be built years in advance of the U de M hospital.

 

Suzanne Corbeil, CFI's vice-president of external relations, said it's not exactly clear why the U de M hospital project did not get funding, but that McGill trumped it for the quality of its research, capacity to innovate and what the new space could provide in terms of synergy between departments and researchers.

 

"There were 28 fabulous proposals from across Canada. We had a fixed pot of money ... decisions had to be made," Corbeil said.

 

This is not a tale of two hospitals, she noted. "But it's unfortunate that it feels like that."

 

cfidelman@thegazette.canwest.com