La Maison Victor-Gadbois

La Maison Victor-Gadbois is a residence for terminally-ill cancer patients, at no cost, to anyone over 18 years of age residing in the Montérégie area, thus servicing a population in excess of 1,200,000 people.

Based on a unique philosophy of care and continuity with existing hospital-based services, La Maison Victor-Gadbois offers a caring and comforting environment to cancer patients and their families, with emphasis on human dignity.The foremost purpose of La Maison Victor-Gadbois is to provide terminally-ill cancer patients with a quality of life such as to appease their deep suffering, and to assist them in their final days. 

La Maison Victor-Gadbois is a living example of love through its philosophy of care and the involvement of volunteers. They contribute to ease the patient’s physical, moral and spiritual pain, as well as that of their family, and help to find a meaning to death.Volunteers and professional care-givers at La Maison Victor-Gadbois emphasize the importance of communication between the terminally ill and their next-of-kin in a context where death is viewed, not as an end in itself, but as a phase in the cycle of life.