Integrated Cancer Treatment Centre

Optimizing Care Pathways Through Clinically Driven Design

The new hospital complex in Quebec City will consolidate, within a single integrated facility on the Hôpital de l'Enfant-Jésus site, the specialized and highly specialized care missions currently delivered across two separate hospitals. Total new construction amounts to 180,693 m², with an additional 27,492 m² of reconfiguration planned within the existing hospital building. Delivered in two phases, the project's first phase includes the Integrated Oncology Centre (Centre intégré de cancérologie — CIC), a new central thermal plant, and a generator building.

The CIC brings together the full range of specialized and highly specialized outpatient oncology services under one roof, while integrating clinical oncology research and providing dedicated space for teaching and professional training. A LEAN process was engaged from the earliest stages of functional and technical programming, through an extensive series of Kaizen sessions and working workshops with the clinicians responsible for radiation oncology. This collaborative approach enabled a thorough understanding of existing service flows and informed targeted strategies for optimization.