MONTREAL — Some of the country’s most senior healthcare administrators, physicians, nurses and organizers are putting the final touches on the largest move of a hospital in Canadian history.
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More than 2,500 staff members of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) will be involved in transporting more 200 to 250 patients to the new hospital facility at the Glen site from the Royal Victoria Hospital on Sunday.
The move is being orchestrated by Health Care Relocations, a Peterborough-based company that specializes in hospital transfers. HCR has moved 300 health care facilities around the world but the MUHC move is unprecedented in size and scope.
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Teams will be set up at both locations working to vacate the Royal Vic and fill the Glen.
The patient transfer begins at 7 a.m. and is scheduled to finish at 3 p.m., at which point the 122 year-old Royal Victoria Hospital will close for good.
The prestigious hospital won’t be accepting any new patients on that day.
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For several weeks medical equipment, furniture, patients files, computers and staff members have moved into the new site.
On on Sunday, it’s the patients turn.
They will be transported in 29 ambulances and six specially adapted medi-cars along a six-kilometre trek that is expected to take 30 minutes door-to-door.
Officials are planning to transfer one patient every three minutes.
Global News will have continuing live coverage of Canada’s largest healthcare move on Sunday via our liveblog, which is scheduled to start April 26 at 8:00 a.m.
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