McGill University Health Centre
Dr Patrick Willemot and Dr Khuê Ly spearheads the MUHC Complex Care Centre. The GIM and Complex Care Clinic at the RVH was initiated in November 2015,when a clinician nurse was hired. In addition to coordinating referrals from Family Medicine and subspecialties in the McGill RUIS, the RVH GIM clinic receives patients with complex disorders transitioning from the Children’s hospital, including patients with cystinosis and hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. A similar initiative was started at the MGH with the hiring of a nurse clinician in June 2016, who will help to support the development of the Division’s outpatient activities. See more on GIM at the MUHC.
Jewish General Hospital
Dr Jed Lipes is the Director of the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Clinic (DTC) at the Jewish General Hospital. The DTC was unveiled in mid-July 2016 and functions as a rapid access internal medicine clinic with dedicated nursing, procedural capabilities on site, therapy rooms (transfusions, IV medication) and dedicated access to radiology. Referrals were initially open to ER only and, due to the initial success, has now expanded to all physicians in the hospital and, more importantly, to the primary care physicians in the community. The 7 internists who staff the DTC see a wide range of acute medical illnesses including malignancy investigation, fever of unknown origin, anemia, acute renal failure, etc., avoiding unnecessary ER visits and hospital admissions. The DTC is equipped with a procedure room and point-of-care ultrasound and the clinician can perform thoracentesis/paracentesis and point-of-care echocardiography. The clinic runs for 3 half-days a week.