CSSS’s new service centre to open this spring in western Laval

Fabre Liberal MNA Michelle Courchesne, who is also the minister responsible for the Laval region in the Charest cabinet, helped unveil one of the latest additions to Quebec’s public health system last week

– the new Centre intégré de services de première ligne de l’ouest de l’île de Laval (CISPLOI), which will be opening next spring on Dagenais Blvd. where a development boom is underway in western Laval.

Chronic care model
The new CISPLOI is based on a Chronic Care Model of medicine, which focuses on maximizing medical help for persons with long-term illnesses. A complementary concentration at the centre will be family medicine. The new CISPLOI building, in which CSSS de Laval is the main tenant, was built to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) environmental specifications, which is considered more conducive to a healthy lifestyle.
“This new point of service will help to better serve the population in the western part of the territory of our health and social services centre,” Courchesne said. “This is an area that is growing. It was therefore essential to make services available here. The centre will be working in close proximity with medical clinics in the area, strengthening in an important way the services that are available.”

Interdisciplinary
The CISPLOI will be dealing with patients who are considered more vulnerable, such as those with loss of autonomy, as well as those experiencing mental health problems. The centre is interdisciplinary in its approach and brings together various professionals, including nurses, social service experts and special rehabilitation personnel. It’s also been made clear that the CISPLOI will be operating in a manner that takes into account the increasingly multilingual population of western Laval.

“This is a community that we want to provide more service to. The idea is that we will be closer to the population,” CSSS de Laval executive-director Luc Lepage said in an interview with the Laval News. “This is something new, which goes together with everything else at the CSSS, but especially with the medical clinics, the family medicine groups, but also other clinics. The idea is that a doctor will be able to refer patients here for tests, or for chronic illnesses, or for seniors’ problems, or for mental health problems.”