It added a cancer centre, and a part of the building houses the Research Institute of the MUHC,[3] which contains a Biosafety level 3 laboratory.

[6] MUHC is a bilingual academic health network and one of the largest and most modern in North America.

The extended network of regions and health service centres for which the MUHC has the mandate to provide tertiary and quaternary care is known officially as the Réseau universitaire intégré de santé et de services sociaux McGill, or RUISSS McGill.

The territory of the RUISSS McGill represents approximately 63% of Quebec's land area, covering most of the western and northern regions of the province.

As a principal teaching site of the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University, a key activity is medical education.

[15][16] Porter left Canada and was apprehended by Interpol agents with his wife in Panama, where he was imprisoned and died from cancer in 2015 while awaiting his extradition to Quebec.