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. It is one of only 3 hospitals in the province with a

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History

The hospital was founded in January 1923 by Dr. Irma Levasseur and his colleagues René Fortier,

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, and Edward Samson,

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. The objective Levasseur is the creation of a first pediatric hospital run by the laity in Quebec . The hospital received its first patient at 55 Grande Allée (Joseph-house Sheyhn). In May 1923, the corporation was created and a medical office was established. The

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allowed the corporation to obtain the services of the Dominican

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. A nursing school was also established, which is affiliated to

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in 1928, then at Cégep Limoilou in 1968. In October 1923, the hospital moved to the west of the district of Saint-Sauveur, near the Saint-Charles cemetery. On 14 March 1927, it settled definitively in the former juvenate of the

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, 395, chemin de la Canardière. It initially had 125 beds. Around 1930, the hospital began offering specialized care in areas other than paediatrics. In 1946, the corporation transferred ownership to the Dominican Sisters 2. In 1949, the wing of the Sacred Heart was inaugurated, bringing the number of beds to 525 beds. In the second half of the century, the hospital introduced new medical services, with subspecialties in

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and traumatology. In 1995, the hospital administratively merged with the Hospital of the Saint Sacrament to form the University Affiliated Hospital of Québec (CHA). The CHA merged in turn with Quebec University Hospital Centre in July 2012.

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