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The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) (in French, Centre universitaire de santé McGill) is a network of five teaching hospitals in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, all of which are affiliated with McGill University.

It now has one Board of Directors and was formed from a merger of the following Montreal hospitals:

• Montreal General Hospital (MGH)
• Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH)
• Montreal Children's Hospital (MCH)
• Montreal Neurological Hospital (MNH)
• Montreal Chest Institute (MCI)

The MUHC is officially a bilingual institution, providing services in both French and English, as well as a number of other languages, as necessary.

The MUHC is planning on closing several of its current hospital facilities and replacing them with a new state-of-the-art campus at the former Glen Railyards, near the Vendôme metro station. This plan, which began in the mid-1990s — has encountered a variety of problems and cost overruns and the concept of merging and moving the hospitals and their associated Research Institutes remains controversial. By government decree, one of the hospitals in the network, Montreal General Hospital (MGH), is to remain open as a downtown general hospital with an Emergency Department. The Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), the research arm of the Montreal Neurological Hospital (MNH), will also not move to the new Vendôme campus — the MNI (which is legally part of the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning (McGill University) will remain adjacent to the McGill University downtown campus. The Jewish General Hospital (JGH), the Douglas Hospital (specialized in psychiatry) and St. Mary Hospital, which are also McGill University teaching hospitals, will not be merged into the new campus and are not part of the MUHC.

Due to government foot dragging, there was a chance that the "private", but McGill-affiliated, Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children would move from Montreal. The Shriners Hospital-Canada of Montreal was threatened with closure after a Shriner's committee recommended that the institution be moved to London, Ontario, instead of rebuilding in Montreal. Their current site adjacent to the Montreal General Hospital is too small. This move was opposed by the Shriners of New England, and of Ottawa, as well as the government and people of Quebec and McGill University, because it would have made patient access from New England and Eastern Canada more difficult and would have removed a major teaching and research resource from Montreal. In July 2005 the Shriners agreed to keep the hospital in Montreal and planning continues to move it to a separate building on the MUHC main site at Vendôme.

• Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal

• Official website of the MUHC
• Montreal General Hospital
• Royal Victoria Hospital (including the Montreal Chest Institute)
• Montreal Children's Hospital
• Montreal Neurological Hospital