CHUM opens doors for official inauguration of its downtown hospital complex

After a year of construction delays, the new French-language hospital held its official inauguration Sunday, taking journalists and politicians for a grand tour of the modern facility, exactly three weeks before the first batch of patients are to be transferred there.
On Oct. 8, about 160 to 170 patients will be moved through a corridor from St-Luc Hospital on René-Lévesque Blvd. to three, 25-storey buildings on St-Denis St. and Viger Ave. The move will be gradual, with the last pa