Overview
    The Jewish General Hospital is an acute-care McGill University teaching hospital with 637 beds, serving patients from Montreal, across the province of Quebec and beyond. Committed to the highest standards of patient care, teaching and research, the JGH has earned a reputation for excellence in many clinical specialties.

Mission
    * To provide patient care of the highest quality in a humane and caring manner, with an emphasis
      on specialized and ultra-specialized care
    * To develop and promote an environment for leadership and excellence in health sciences education
    * To encourage and support research in order to advance the knowledge of the prevention, cause and
      treatment of illness and the promotion of health
    * To actively participate in and lead the development and evaluation of new technologies in order
      to enhance patient care

Statistics
Beds:                                                                                637
Medical and surgical specialties:                                                More than 40
Doctors: 645 attending doctors, most of whom hold teaching appointments with McGill
Medical residents: 188 medical residents based at the JGH, plus 636 medical residents rotating
                      through the JGH
Nurses:                                                                              1,441
Total staff:                                                                        4,869
Student nurses trained per year:                                           650

Research and Teaching
    Since its inception in 1969, the JGH's Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research has been an integral part of the hospital, and has helped to strengthen the JGH's academic links and status vis-à-vis McGill University. Extensive clinical investigation and laboratory research are essential, since these activities leads to improved diagnoses, earlier detection of disease and more effective forms of treatment.
    The JGH carries out approximately 22 per cent of the training for McGill's Faculty of Medicine, while the Lady Davis Institute consistently receives one of the highest rankings from the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec. Researchers at the LDI are awarded approximately $40 million in research grants from external sources each year. This places the LDI at or near the top of the list in funding per researcher in Quebec's hospital?affiliated research institutions.
    The LDI is considered one of Canada's major biomedical research institutions and has earned international recognition in fields such as AIDS, aging, cancer and genetics. It also serves as the home to various McGill programs, including:
    * the McGill AIDS Centre, headed by Dr. Mark Wainberg, Past President of the International AIDS
      Society
    * the Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging, where clinician-scientists have made major
      discoveries in understanding age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
    * the McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer, designed to speed up the time it takes
      for discoveries in the lab to be brought to patients at the bedside
    * the McGill Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology Program
    * the McGill Menopause Clinic
    * the Terry Fox Molecular Oncology Group
    * the Centre for Nursing Research