CHU Sainte-Justine
Director of Transition

Mr. Claude Fortin is a nurse with a Master degree in public administration. He has 26 years of experience in the Quebec health and social services network.

Since November 2009, Mr. Fortin is the Director of Transition for the “Grandir en Santé” project.  During those years, he piloted the transformation and adaptation of clinical, administrative activities and processes to “Grandir en Santé” requirements, including process review, operations maintenance, patient’s and team’s safety and change management training for all staff.

Mr. Fortin was also entrusted with the task of organizational transformation of clinical services into an innovative structure that better responds to the needs of modern challenges faced by the Quebec healthcare network. Consequently, since December 2013, he has been the executive co-director of academic care. In addition, since April 2017, he is in charge of the nursing care’s direction of the CHU Sainte-Justine.