CHU Sainte-Justine - Multiple projects

The psychiatric unit had not been renovated since the opening of the facility. Following several years of intense services, nine bedrooms, the nursing staff quarters (offices and kitchenette), the rest area, the activity room and the classes were in great need of a refresh.

For this reason, during the redevelopment, the room and guard station’s finishes, lighting and furniture were completely changed to give the unit a more contemporary look. Following the reorganization, the new fenestrated station was repositioned to ensure better monitoring of the children’s living space.

The mandate involves the implantation of a magnetic resonance room and an angiography room in the medical imaging sector. These two rooms are contiguous and they can work together or separately. The development also includes two control rooms (MRI and angiography), two equipment rooms, one sterile scrub area, a preparation room and a reading room for radiologists.

In collaboration with Corriveau and Girard Architects

Complete refurbishing of the existing orthopedic Xray room for the installation of the new Xray equipment.

Surface : 248 sq. ft.

It summarized the existing conditions, the demolition and the construction required for the replacement of the 1.5 Tesla imager and set out to bidders all specifications, issues and stowage related to the delivery of a new magnet of 11 500kg.

Following the initial mandate, we had to redevelop the MRI room and renovate the existing Faraday cage so that it met with the new safety standards and requirements of the new imager. The project also included interventions in adjacent corridors, in the equipment room as well as in the control room, in order to attain the necessary upgrade of the electromechanical systems for the start of the new imager.

Minor repairs were required to the roof for the installation of a new cryogenic vent and interventions were needed to the exterior wall to be able to transport the existing imager out to integrate the new.

For this reason, during the remodel, the rooms and the guard station’s finishes, lighting and the furniture were completely changed to give the unit a more contemporary look.

The guard station was repositioned at the unit’s entrance to facilitate patient’s arrival and care. In addition, the expansion of the station allowed student trainees to regroup with the nursing staff inside the post. By bringing students and caregivers together, the quality education and of the information communicated was thus improve.

The two main rooms with an area of 82 square meters are now contiguous to allow the transfer of a patient for easier assist to medical procedures.

The redevelopment also includes a new reception area for the orthopedics department, a second procedure room, space for weighing and measuring and a reserve. The project also includes interventions on the lower floor related to the electromechanical work.

Surface : 1 754 pi. ca

This new service area at Level A includes a food court, a gift shop, a new pharmacy, modernized public restrooms and an ATM.

LEMAYMICHAUD designed the layout of the food court and the gift shop for The Foundation of the Sainte-Justine’s Hospital, as well as coordinated the entire project. This project had to be constructed in phases to ensure the sector’s activities

Expansion surface : 13 401 sq. ft.

These four rooms are therefore designed to give the families a more peaceful and serene environment providing all the intimacy required to allow parents to surround their child with warmth and comfort to accompany them to the term of their short life.

In collaboration with the palliative care team of the CHU Sainte-Justine, the room has been meticulously taught over in order to bring about positive outcome on the physical and mental health of the young patient.

In a second mandate, the concept was revised for two rooms situated in the birthing unit for cases of perinatal bereavement where the birth of a child take place and the rituals that follows the death of newborns.

The realisation of all six rooms was made possible thanks to the generous donation of the foundation of the ‘’Gouverneurs de l’Espoir’’.