In healthcare, there are no small projects.

For several months now, we have been actively working on major healthcare projects. These initiatives represent hundreds of millions of dollars invested in the improvement and modernization of our healthcare system, including projects at the Philippe-Pinel Institute and Charles-LeMoyne Hospital. But healthcare projects are made up of both large and small components, each of which is essential and directly contributes to improving patient care.

Since 2018, we have been working on the project for the new Medical Device Reprocessing Department (MDRD) at the Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ). Highly complex in nature, this project had to ensure the continuity of operations, which partly explains the length of the process.

At the cutting edge of technology, the IUCPQ MDRD—a project with a total budget of approximately $25 million—is dedicated to the reprocessing of medical devices, including instruments, equipment, and devices with all their components used for diagnosis, treatment, and patient care. This reprocessing, which involves 13 stages of cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization, ensures optimal quality of care by reducing the risk of infection.

This new infrastructure therefore represents a critical element in ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality care and services. Each year, the IUCPQ MDRD carries out more than one million reprocessing procedures.

It is therefore deeply rewarding for us to be involved in projects—large or small, high-profile or not—that make a tangible contribution to improving healthcare for the population.