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Message from the Chair
Message from the Chair
Welcome to the RUIS McGill Web site.
Since the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services
restructured its provincial health network and created
the Réseau universitaire intégré de santé (RUIS) in
2003, the RUIS McGill has sought to understand and
fulfill the needs and expectations of its population
within each of the regions of its vast territory.
Communication and collaboration have been pivotal to our
success stories in meeting the many challenges that we
face; indeed, there have been many challenges thus far.
The territory includes roughly 1.7 million people across
an area that covers 63 per cent of Quebec, from Montreal
and part of the Montérégie to the Outaouais,
Abitibi-Témiscamingue, James Bay-Cree Territories,
Northern Quebec,
and Nunavik regions. Health determinants—such as income,
education, social environment and support, available
health services, and culture—vary for each region.
Shortages of general practitioners and specialists in a
variety of fields also require their own set of
solutions.
Whether it is providing new learning opportunities,
encouraging residents’ training in a specific region,
advancing our telehealth capabilities or creating a
coordinating centre so that patients don’t have to
travel a huge distance to Montreal to receive care, our
focus remains unchanged: Exemplary tertiary patient
care, research, teaching and technology evaluation that
help improve the health and well-being of Quebecers
regardless of where they call home.
The Hon. Arthur
T. Porter, C.P. MD
Chair, RUIS
McGill
Director General and CEO, MUHC
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