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{{Infobox hospital
| Name = Hôpital Saint-Luc
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Hôpital Saint-Luc was founded in 1908 by Dr. F.A. Fleury in a private home at 88 Saint Denis Street, Montreal.<ref name="Québec1916">{{cite book|author=Bureau de la statistique du Québec|title=Statistiques des Établissements Pénitentiaires [Prisons, Écoles de Réforme et Écoles d'Industrie]. Statistics of Penal Establishments [Prisons, Reformatory Schools and Industrial Schools]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v8ElAQAAIAAJ|year=1916}}</ref>
The hospital was located in the poorest neighborhood of [[Montreal]]. The founder, Dr. F. A. Fleury wanted to treat children in need. Hôpital Saint-Luc had a mission to accept, without any discrimination, any person requiring care.<ref>http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/sante/201710/08/01-5139313-la-fin-de-saint-luc-lhopital-du-peuple.php</ref>
In 1912, hospital officials required the assistance of the City of Montreal to pay the salaries of its dentists. During the years of [[Great Depression]] following the 1929 stock market crash, agreements with the city provided a number of beds to be constantly available to the homeless patients collected by the police in addition to both domestic and foreign sailors from the [[Port of Montreal]]. In exchange, the city and the [[Government of Canada]] compensated the hospital for each visit or hospitalization. These new modes of cooperation were precursors to universal access to medical care.
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Hôpital Saint-Luc was notably the first hospital to offer 24-hour emergency services regardless of ethnic, linguistic or religious identity. The hospital was specialized since its founding in the fields of [[Otolaryngology]], [[Ophthalmology]], [[dentistry]] and clinical [[venereal disease]].
Over the years, the need for hospitalization become increasingly urgent. In 1928 the small hospital was inaugurated, increasing the capacity from 9 to 89 beds. A chain of successive expansions took place thereafter, allowing Hôpital Saint-Luc to
On October 1, 1996, Hôpital Saint-Luc signed a memorandum of understanding that made it one of the three hospitals belonging to the [[Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal]] (CHUM) network.<ref>https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/237646/chum2</ref>
In March 2005, construction of the CHUM megahospital was announced
▲In 2005, construction of the CHUM megahospital was announced for a site adjacent to Hôpital Saint-Luc. The megahospital was opened to patients on October 8, 2017; on the same date, the last remaining inpatients at Hôpital Saint-Luc were transferred to the CHUM, and Saint-Luc was closed. The building is to be demolished and replaced with an additional wing of the CHUM.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Duchaine|first1=Hugo|title=La fin de l'hôpital Saint-Luc ce dimanche|url=http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2017/10/04/la-fin-de-lhopital-saint-luc-ce-dimanche|accessdate=16 October 2017|date=4 October 2017|work=Journal de Montréal}}</ref>
==See also==
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