The Institut de réadaptation Gingras-Lindsay-de-Montréal (IRGLM) is the result of the 2008 merger of the Institut de réadaptation de Montréal and of the Lindsay Rehabilitation Hospital.
Its 800 employees and physicians work in a dynamic and warm environment to allow people with severe physical disabilities to develop their full potential for independence.
➢ Academic vocation
Building upon the legacIies of the two merged institutions, the IRGLM is the benchmark for rehabilitation through its humanistic approach and its innovative practices.
The IRGLM is also a mecca for knowledge and innovation. It welcomes annually more than 700 students, a new generation of doctors, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and other health care professionals. Much research is also conducted to increase knowledge, improve approaches in the field of rehabilitation and thus, provide more autonomy to people with physical disabilities.
➢ Unique assets
The Institut de réadaptation Gingras-Lindsay-de-Montréal (IRGLM) is an academic institution of high repute. It is:
- the pioneer in the field of rehabilitation in Quebec;
- one of the largest research, teaching and assessment centres of rehabilitation technologies in North America, whose expertise reaches beyond our borders;
- the largest rehabilitation hospital in Quebec, with 200 beds;
- affiliated with the Université de Montréal, welcomes more than 700 students annually;
- home to the largest concentration of physiatrists under one roof in North America, offering the only academic program in this field;
- Technical aids service: one of a kind to provide a full range of orthotics, prosthetics, wheelchair and positioning services.
➢ Mission
Together, to provide adults with safe, high-quality rehabilitation care and services in order to optimize their potential for autonomy and contribute to the advancement and sharing of knowledge through teaching, research and the assessment of technologies and means of intervention.
➢ Organizational values
- Empowerment and commitment
- Humanism
- Quality of services
- Cooperation
➢ Key figures
The Institut de réadaptation Gingras-Lindsay-de-Montréal has:
- 192 beds;
- 755 employees;
- 41 physicians (general practitioners, physiatrists and specialists);
- 150 volunteers;
- an annual operating budget of $35M;
- 372 admissions in 2009;
- 10,733 outpatient clinic visits in 2009.
➢ Treatment outcomes
The objective of the IRGLM is to help patients discover a new type of autonomy that will help them along the path to a return to home-based activities. Intensive rehabilitation activities begin as soon as the patient has been stabilized.
➢ Clientele
We cater to an adult clientele that can present with physical disabilities resulting from temporary or permanent physical disabilities due to illness, trauma or congenital conditions.
Our clients can be seen on an out-patient basis or as admitted patients to one of our two pavilions – The Gingras pavilion or the Lindsay pavilion, which are adjacent.
These patients are taken under the wing of interdisciplinary teams within the framework of four distinct client programs:
The IRGLM also offers many services through its outpatient clinic.
➢ IRGLM specializations
- The IRGLM is the only Montreal-area establishment to offer intensive rehabilitation to a clientele, 55 years of age and under suffering from strokes as well as to those with brain injuries.
- The IRGLM treats spinal cord injuries and ventilated quadriplegic patients from all of Quebec.
- The IRGLM treats spinal cord trauma patients from the whole of Western Quebec.
- The IRGLM treats upper limb amputees from all over Quebec and can also, upon request, see clients from other regions presenting with lower limb amputations with associated complex conditions (hip disarticulations, other associated lesions, complex prosthetic fitings...).
➢ Partners
The IRGLM has entered into partnerships with the Centre de réadaptation Lucie-Bruneau and the Constance-Lethbridge Rehabilitation Centre for socio-professional rehabilitation, as well as with the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal and the Centre Dollard-Cormier (for clients with a drug dependence).
The Institut de réadaptation Gingras-Lindsay-de-Montréal is the result of the 2008 merger of the Institut de réadaptation de Montréal and of the Lindsay Rehabilitation Hospital.
➢ Institut de réadaptation de Montréal
- 1949: Foundation under the auspices of Rotary International, and the Société pour la réhabilitation des infirmes.
- 1954: The establishment adopts the name of “Institut de réhabilitation de Montréal”.
- 1957: Opening of a laboratory for the fabrication and fitting of orthotics and prosthetics. Within the first year, a student training program is begun.
- 1962: The Institut moves to Darlington Avenue in a new building with 110 beds on three floors and an outpatient clinic.
- 1972: The Institut is formally affiliated with the Université de Montréal.
- 1976: The name “Institut de réadaptation de Montréal” is officially adopted.
➢ The Lindsay Rehabilitation Hospital
- 1913: Founded by the administrators of the Loyola Literary and art Club, the Loyola Convalescent Home is inaugurated in Montreal on Overdale Street, and consists of 12 beds.
- 1929: Move to a 33-bed residence on St-Marc Street.
- 1933: Inauguration of a 104-bed pavilion on Hudson Road in Côte-des-Neiges, which was built thanks to the generous contribution of Sir Charles Lindsay, a Montreal piano manufacturer. The establishment then becomes the Montreal Convalescent Hospital.
- 1985: The establishment is officially recognized as a short-term specialized hospital by the ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux du Québec.
- 1997: The institution is renamed The Lindsay Rehabilitation Hospital to better reflect the nature of its mandate and raison-d'être, as well as to honour one of its most important benefactors.
