On February 29 and March 1, Jodoin Lamarre Pratte architectes took part in a conference organized by the Canadian Centre for Healthcare Facilities in Calgary on innovations in cancer treatment. Organized in the format of a conference tour, the event focused on a visit to the Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Care Centre (Stantec + DIALOG)—Canada’s largest and most recent integrated oncology centre—and on discovering the clinical, operational, and research objectives and initiatives that guided its planning and development.

Integrated oncology centres have unique features compared to other healthcare facilities, particularly the clever organization of specialized, state-of-the-art technologies and treatment units; of research laboratories; and of spaces dedicated to care, healing, and support. Their design must be guided by a holistic approach, integrating emotional and psychosocial aspects. Research is integral to such a project, to bring treatments developed in the laboratory directly to the patient’s bed.

Jodoin Lamarre Pratte architectes has delivered major oncology projects in seven healthcare facilities over the past fifteen years—the new hospital complex of the CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Rouyn-Noranda Hospital, Hôtel-Dieu Hospital in Lévis, Cité-de-la-Santé Hospital, Hôpital Charles-Le Moyne, Jewish General Hospital, and Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont—such that the design of integrated cancer centres has become one of the firm’s key areas of expertise. It is recognized as having the most extensive experience of any architecture firm in Quebec.

About the Canadian Centre for Healthcare Facilities

The Canadian Centre for Healthcare Facilities (CCHF) brings together a wide range of healthcare professionals—hospital administrators, clinical experts, researchers, engineers, architects, designers, and construction managers—for congresses, conferences, forums, and events. Its mission is to support Canada’s healthcare facilities sector in creating high-level healthcare environments. Based in British Columbia, the association’s mission is to highlight and disseminate the best practices and cutting-edge developments in healthcare facility design. It does so by creating knowledge networks through research, case studies, and expert input, across areas of technology, clinical-care delivery models and programs, architecture, interior design, construction, and financing models.