90th anniversary flashback: Building the JGH, brick by brick
In the 1929 fund-raising campaign to build the JGH, Montreal’s Jews showed their support by buying symbolic bricks.
From the archives: Historic operation saves heart patient’s life in 1968
In January 1968, the JGH made medical history as the first hospital in the world to use an external, artificial heart-assist pump to resuscitate a patient who was dying of an acute heart attack.