Ville de Laval makes $200,000 land gift to Jewish Rehab Hospital

At the end of the 30-year period, the city will repossess the 40,000 square-foot lot and any facilities built on it during the life of the lease.

This specific condition renders the value-added aspect of the arrangement rather thin, since the hospital administration has already converted the land into a parking lot accommodating 83 cars, a facility which was desperately needed.

“We weren’t ready to give the lot up because of its location, and that’s why we decided to retain ownership,” notes Ville de Laval spokesperson Marc Laforge.

JRH director-general André Ibghy explains that the hospital has already spent more than a half-million dollars for work done on the lot.

Widely-recognized for its rehabilitation programs in neurology, orthopedics and pulmonary medicine, the McGill University affiliated institution takes in patients victimized by head trauma and coming from Sacre Coeur Hospital and the Montreal General Hospital. In many cases these patients require basic and extensive rehabilitation

as they have to be taught how to eat and walk again.

The hospital, which is situated near the perimeter of the Cité de la biotech, renders services to about 1000 patients a year, through minimum stays of 40 days. Thousands of others are treated as out-patients.

Operating on an annual budget of $30 million, the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital employs more than 1800, has forty doctors on staff, and provides facilities for about 20 researchers.

Photo:Ibghy

(Photo: Martin Alarie Courrier Laval)