Cause
Saving more lives and doing it more better, thanks to the Centre of Excellence in Neonatal Intensive Care.
The Young Leaders Circle has agreed to invest $8 million over the next five years to help fund the CHU Sainte-Justine's Centre of Excellence for Neonatal Intensive Care.
Why?
- Because CHU Sainte-Justine is the largest mother-child centre in Canada and a worldwide leader in neonatal care;
- Because 8% of Québec babies are born prematurely;
- Because birth defects are the main cause of death in newborns;
- Because all parents have the same wish: giving birth to a healthy child.
The Centre will:
- Accelerate clinical research aimed at ensuring more newborns survive without complications;
- Foster new and better personalized approaches to providing care and healing children;
- Track premature babies more effectively through to adulthood in order to better assess the treatments' impact on their development.
The Centre of Excellence for Neonatal Intensive Care is the cradle of life, promising the best conditions for a newborn's development and a healthy tomorrow for all future babies. It pledges to find better ways to save and heal more children.
ABOUT CHU SAINTE-JUSTINE FOUNDATION
Through community support, the CHU Sainte-Justine Foundation strives to accelerate the pace of the leading-edge research at Sainte-Justine, in an effort to heal more children and do it better. The Foundation is committed to building a healthier tomorrow by delivering a standard of care that is among the best in the world.
www.healingmorebetter.org
ABOUT CHU SAINTE-JUSTINE
The CHU Sainte-Justine is the largest mother-child university hospital centre in Canada and the second most important pediatric centre in North America (Dallas (737 beds), CHUSJ (484 beds), Atlanta et Philadelphia (430 beds each). It is a member of the Réseau d'excellence en santé of the Université de Montréal (RUIS). Its team is composed of 5 153 employees, including 1 392 nurses and auxiliary nurses; 1 036 health care professionals; 520 doctors, dentists and pharmacists; more than 250 researchers; 300 volunteers; and 3 400 interns and students of all disciplines. It has 484 beds, 35 of which are located at the Centre de réadaptation Marie Enfant, the only pediatric rehabilitation centre in Quebec. The WHO has accredited the CHU Sainte-Justine as a "Health Promoting Hospital."
www.hsj.qc.ca