The Ottawa Hospital

The Ottawa Hospital

General Campus
Location in Ottawa
Geography
Location Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates 45°24′05″N 75°38′52″W / 45.4013°N 75.6479°WCoordinates: 45°24′05″N 75°38′52″W / 45.4013°N 75.6479°W
Organization
Care system Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP)
Hospital type Teaching
Affiliated university University of Ottawa
Services
Emergency department Yes
Helipad TC LID: CPP7
Beds 1,155
History
Founded 1845
Links
Website www.ottawahospital.on.ca
Lists Hospitals in Canada

The Ottawa Hospital, or L'Hôpital d'Ottawa, is a non-profit, public university teaching hospital in Ottawa, Canada. The hospital is made up of the former Grace Hospital, Riverside Hospital, Ottawa General Hospital and Ottawa Civic Hospital. It is a 1,195-bed academic health sciences centre affiliated with the University of Ottawa, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Ottawa Hospital is also one of two trauma centres in Eastern Ontario and southern Quebec. The other is Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario accommodating juvenile and adolescent patients.

History

During World War II, when Canada provided refuge to the Dutch royal family, then Princess Juliana gave birth to her daughter Princess Margriet in Ottawa at the Ottawa Civic Hospital.[1] The hospital's maternity ward was temporarily declared to be officially part of international territory so that Margriet would inherit full Dutch citizenship from her mother.[2][3]

Civic Campus

The Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus, was established in 1845. In 1921, the construction of the civic hospital was estimated to cost $1,500,000.[4] It is a modern 456 bed teaching hospital. The University of Ottawa Heart Institute forms part of the civic campus.

The General Campus is composed of the General Hospital, the Ottawa Rehabilitation Centre, and the Eye Institute. The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and a part of the University of Ottawa have buildings in the Campus.

The Ottawa Hospital, Riverside Campus, is a day facility for outpatient care and speciality clinics. It has its own OC Transpo transitway station.

During the 1990s, the provincial government of Mike Harris amalgamated several existing hospitals, the Ottawa Civic, Ottawa General, Grace and Riverside hospitals, to make up The Ottawa Hospital. The Grace was closed, while the Riverside became the Riverside Campus, an out-patient centre. On April 1, 1998, The Ottawa Hospital was officially created.

Riverside Campus

Research

The Ottawa Health Research Institute (OHRI) is a non-profit academic health research institute that is part of The Ottawa Hospital, and a major part of the University of Ottawa Faculties of Medicine and Health Science. It is one of the largest hospital-based research institutes in North America.[5]

Formed on April 1, 2001, by the merger of the Loeb Health Research Institute and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, the OHRI is a multi-campus facility. OHRI scientists are at work on an array of questions in the fields of cancer therapeutics; clinical epidemiology; diseases of ageing; hormones, growth, and development; molecular medicine; neuroscience, and vision.

The OHRI's mandate is to advance knowledge of health and disease on multiple fronts, ranging from increasing understanding of what is happening at the molecular and cellular level in complex disease states, to elucidating best practises in the delivery of health care.

Trivia

Famous people born at the Ottawa Hospital include:

References

  1. ↑ Place of birth
  2. ↑ "Proclamation". Canada Gazette. 26 December 1942. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  3. ↑ CBC Digital Archives - Second World War - 1943: Netherlands' Princess Margriet born in Ottawa
  4. ↑ "The outlook for 1920". Construction (Toronto) (Toronto) 13 (1): 30. Jan 1920.
  5. ↑ The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. "website". OHRI. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Want Ads/Births". The Ottawa Evening Journal. July 1, 1952. p. 12.

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