This year, Montérégie is receiving more than $382,000 to improve the care journey and overall health of children in the region.
Enfant Soleil helps more than 100 healthcare facilities across the province and provides invaluable support to the four major pediatric centres, which give specialized and sub-specialized care to any child who needs it.
Spotlight on a project promising beautiful things on the horizon
Hôpital Charles-Le Moyne reached a major milestone in its history with the recent inauguration of a new pediatric medical day centre. This centre makes it possible to more effectively provide general pediatric care while improving access to essential community-based services. It is changing the care pathway for children in the region by giving access to the right care, at the right place and time.
Each year, nearly 4,500 children will be able to be seen in a safe, reassuring environment. The new centre helps avoid emergency room visits, reduces hospitalizations and improves follow-up. Families will now have better access to specialist consultations and outpatient treatments, including enhanced pediatric allergology services, while helping train the next generation of healthcare professionals in a university setting. With spaces fully adapted to pediatric patients, the day centre offers a more compassionate, gentler and better-coordinated care experience. This project was made possible thanks to $250,000 in funding from Enfant Soleil and Santé Québec*.
A $17,100 grant will be used to purchase essential medical equipment, such as vital sign monitors, otoscopes, ophthalmoscopes and an examination table.
*2025–2026 funding made possible through an agreement initiated with the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux.
Helping grown-ups improve young lives
Essential support for the entire pediatric ecosystem
Discover other projects funded in the region
1 multipurpose pediatric examination table
- This new examination table will be used in the emergency department, which sees nearly 4,200 pediatric visits per year. It will help ensure precise examinations are better adapted to small patients.
2 multipurpose pediatric examination tables
- These tables will enable healthcare staff to perform comprehensive, adapted examinations in a way that is more comfortable for children.
1 occupational therapy table
- Occupational therapy assessments and treatment will be better targeted to the specific needs of each child or young person, no matter their age and size, thanks to this safe, adjustable table.
1 continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine
- Jointly funded by Enfant Soleil and Santé Québec*, this assistive device will help more effectively manage the care of babies in respiratory distress and aid in their recovery.
3 multipurpose pediatric examination tables
- Thanks to this equipment, children will be able to have a more comfortable and comprehensive assessment.
1 video laryngoscope
- Adapted to the size of newborns and children and designed to minimize discomfort, the video laryngoscope will allow medical personnel to thoroughly examine the inside of a child’s throat, nose and larynx with a camera that facilitates the intubation process.
*2025–2026 funding made possible through an agreement initiated with the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux.
1 portable vital signs monitor
- Jointly funded by Enfant Soleil and Santé Québec*, this device makes it possible to monitor the vital signs of newborns in real time, for gentler and safer care. It will also ensure more responsive and adapted patient management in intermediate care rooms and upon the return of babies that had been transferred to another hospital.
Neonatal CPR mannequins
- Used to train medical teams, these mannequins will simulate critical resuscitation scenarios. Newborns will thus benefit from rapid intervention suited to their needs from their first moments of life.
*2025–2026 funding made possible through an agreement initiated with the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux.
1 height-adjustable table with castors
- This table will ensure safe positioning by reproducing the mealtime context in the home for a more accurate assessment and recommendations adapted to the reality of each child.
1 neonatal ventilator
- Essential for newborns in respiratory distress, and adapted to their size, this device will ensure effective and safe management during transfers from the birthing centre to the hospital.
Projects financed by the Sport and Sustainable Health Fund (SSHF)
The SSHF aims to promote and support healthy lifestyle habits in children through sports, physical activity and healthy eating while also fostering emotional and mental well-being. This fund will help four organizations in the region carry out their projects for a total of $13,700:
- Vallée-des-Forts CLSC
- Alakazoum CPE
- La Douce Couvée CPE (Acton Vale)
- École Capitaine-Luc-Fortin, St-Joseph building (Saint-Sébastien
Édouard St-Laurent, Enfant Soleil for Montérégie
Édouard and his family are brilliant ambassadors who courageously share their story and reality.
At age 17, Édouard was leading an active life between school, friends and volleyball. In January 2024, he began feeling unusually tired and had a persistent cough, but this did not immediately worry his family. That all changed a few days later, when, in the ER of his regional hospital, his condition quickly became critical, starting a race against time. Édouard was transferred to CHU Sainte-Justine, where tests revealed genetic heart disease caused by the same gene as his father, who had a heart transplant just a few years earlier. Three weeks later, Édouard was hooked up, day and night, to a mechanical heart, which he fully depended on to live. The following months were full of restrictions, adaptation and waiting. Then, on November 30, 2025, Édouard finally received a new heart. “It’s not virtual or abstract: you see the real impacts donations have when you’re sick. Small things can make a big difference in such extreme situations.”