Our history

Lobe over time

The Lobe network is a culmination of a dream for its founder, Martin Cousineau. It was in 2002, almost 20 years ago, that Mr. Cousineau founded Lobe with one goal in mind: to make the hearing health consultation process more accessible to patients.

To do this, he devised a unique multidisciplinary approach where all hearing health professionals are under one roof, making the consultation process much easier for patients.

Lobe initially brought together ENT specialists, audiologists, and audioprosthetists, and the network has now expanded to include a number of other hearing health and communication professionals. We welcomed specialized educators to our clinic in 2006, followed by speech-language pathologists in 2007.Over the years, close to 60 clinics have been added to our network and nearly 250 people now work in our clinics and at our head office! Take a look at our history to see how we’ve grown over the years.

2002: First Lobe clinics open in Sainte-Marie and Saint-Georges
2005: Lebourgneuf and Lévis clinics open
2006 Neufchâtel, Shawinigan, Sherbrooke West, and Trois-Rivières clinics open
2007: Head office and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures clinic open
2008: Saint-Léonard, Laval – Chomedey, Boisbriand, and Thetford Mines clinics open
2009: Pointe-Claire clinic opens
2010: Longueuil and Lac-Mégantic clinics open
2011: Saint-Laurent, Sainte-Foy, Saint-Hubert, and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu clinics open
2012: Drummondville clinic opens
2013: Saint-Sacrement, Val-Bélair, Charlesbourg, Gatineau, Aylmer, and Pont-Rouge clinics open
2013: Lobe wins the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Audioprosthetists category
2014: Beauport, Châteauguay, and Saint-Jérôme clinics open
2014: Lobe is a finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award
2015: Rosemont – La-Petite-Patrie clinic opens
2016: Saint-Romuald clinic opens
2017: Sherbrooke East, Laval – Chomedey 440 and Gatineau – Hull clinics open
2017: Lobe is a finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award
2018: Marie-Josée Taillefer becomes the Lobe clinics and hearing health ambassador
2018: Lévis-Lauzon, Mirabel, Angus, Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Lac-Etchemin, and Lachine clinics open
2019: Saint-Hyacinthe, Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, Beauceville, Limoilou, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, and Vaudreuil-Dorion clinics open
2019: Lobe wins a Fidéides award in the Services category
2019: Lobe wins a Mercure award in the Entrepreneurship category
2020: Donnacona, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Mascouche, and Villeray clinics open
2020: Lobe is a finalist at the Mercuriades in the Successful Business Strategy category
2020: Lobe is a finalist at the Prix Innovation in the Digital Transformation 4.0 category
2021: Rock Forest clinic opens
2022: Granby clinic opens
2024: Drummondville clinic is expanding
2024: Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré clinic is expanding
2024: Lévis clinic is moving

Always looking to the future, in 2020 we entered into a partnership with a major real estate developer in the healthcare field. This will allow us to better carry out our mission of easing access to hearing health and communication care. By opening new clinics across Quebec, we are able to offer local services to our communities, meet the needs of an aging population, and break the isolation caused by hearing loss. After all, 33% of people aged 65 and over live with hearing loss. That’s huge. Because we provide services locally, people who need hearing health and communication care don’t have to travel long distances to get the help and support they need.

We are and will always be there for you!