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The Royal Victoria Hospital ((フランス語:Hôpital Royal Victoria)), popularly known, the "Royal Vic" or "The Vic", is a hospital affiliated with McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Hospital operations moved to the new Glen site of the McGill University Health Centre on April 26, 2015. The old hospital is located at 687 Pine Avenue on the slope of Mount Royal in the borough of Ville-Marie. Of its nine pavilions, three date from the original 1893 hospital and were designed by Henry Saxon Snell in the Scottish baronial style. The nearby Allan Memorial Institute houses the psychiatry department of the hospital and will remain open after the rest of the hospital operations move away. The post-2015 future of the 122-year-old Royal Vic building is yet to be determined. McGill University has unveiled an idea to repurpose the hospital for academic purposes, but also add community and green space.〔http://royalvictoria.mcgill.ca/〕〔http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mcgill-unveils-plan-to-revitalize-royal-victoria-hospital-1.1791876〕 ==History== The Royal Victoria Hospital was established in 1893 in the historic Golden Square Mile through donations by two public-spirited Scottish immigrants, the cousins Donald Smith, 1st Lord Strathcona, and George Stephen, 1st Lord Mount Stephen. In 1887, they announced a joint gift of C$1,000,000 for the construction of a free hospital in Montreal and purchased a site on Mount Royal for a further C$86,000. The site they bought was the old Frothingham estate that covered ten acres of land.〔(''Montreal Gazette'' March 5, 2013: Whats next for the Royal Victoria Hospital? Who decides? )〕 During 1897 and 1898, Smith and Stephen gave another C$1,000,000 between them in Great Northern Railroad securities to establish an endowment fund to maintain the hospital. Stephen and Smith attached one caveat to their generous contribution to the City of Montreal: the hospital's land and its buildings must only ever be used for healing.〔(Elspeth Angus interviewed by the Montreal Gazette )〕 The founders intended the Royal Vic to "to be for the use of the sick and ailing without distinction of race or creed," and when it opened in 1893 it was hailed as the "finest and most perfectly equipped (hospital) on the great American continent".〔(The Royal Victoria Hospital Site )〕 The hospital originally had 150 employees, including 14 medical doctors. Over the years, the philanthropy and business acumen of many of the residents of the Golden Square Mile - the prominent members of Montreal's English speaking community - brought the hospital global recognition as a major centre of healthcare and learning. Major contributors included James Ross, Richard Angus, Sir Vincent Meredith and Sir Montague Allan. In 1920, the hospital became a medical research institute through the McGill University Faculty of Medicine. In 1929, Dr. Wilder Penfield established the Montreal Neurological Institute adjacent to the hospital. Among the list of medical achievements at the Royal Victoria was the first successful kidney transplant in the Commonwealth in 1958. It was achieved by a team led by nephrologist John Dossetor and surgeons Joe Luke and Ken MacKinnon. Today, the Royal Victoria Hospital is part of the McGill University Health Centre. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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