What is the McGill University Health Center (MUHC)?
Located in Montreal, the MUHC is a merger of five teaching hospitals affiliated with McGill University—The Montreal Children’s Hospital, The Montreal General Hospital, The Royal Victoria Hospital (shown above), and The Montreal Neurological Hospital, as well as The Montreal Chest Institute. Building on the tradition of medical leadership of the founding hospitals, our goal is to provide patient care based on the most advanced knowledge in the health care field, and to contribute to the development of new knowledge. We are proud of our reputation for excellence with our clinical programs, research and teaching. Which Operations are done at the MUHC? The MUHC is a tertiary care institution able to treat patients with complicated diseases and complications because of a state of the art intensive care unit, dialysis capability etc. For this reason we reserve the limited number of beds and operating room time available to us for the most high risk bariatric surgery patients. The decision to
