The Ottawa Hospital

The Ottawa Hospital
Geography
Location Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Organization
Care system Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP)
Hospital type Teaching
Affiliated university University of Ottawa
Services
Emergency department Level I Trauma Center
Beds 1,117
Helipad TC LID: CPP7
History
Founded 1998
Links
Website www.ottawahospital.on.ca
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The Ottawa Hospital (French: L'Hôpital d'Ottawa) is a non-profit, public university teaching hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The hospital is made up of the former Grace Hospital, Ottawa Riverside Hospital, Ottawa General Hospital and Ottawa Civic Hospital. It is a 1,117-bed academic health sciences centre affiliated with the University of Ottawa, and the University of Ottawa Heart Institute is located at the hospital's Civic Campus. The 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.

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.[1]

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.

Riverside Hospital of Ottawa

Riverside Hospital of Ottawa
The Ottawa Hospital
Geography
Location 1967 Riverside Dr., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Organization
Care system Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP)
Hospital type Teaching
Affiliated university University of Ottawa
Services
Emergency department No
Beds 0
Links
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The Ottawa Hospital’s Riverside Campus is one of three main campuses of The Ottawa Hospital[2] - along with the Civic and General campuses, and is the only campus that does not admit patients and has no emergency department. The facility operates for out-patient treatment and procedures during the day Monday - Friday.

The Riverside Hospital of Ottawa first opened in 1967[3] on Riverside Drive close to where the current General campus and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario is located on Symth Rd. On 1 April 1998[4] the hospital was amalgamated with the Civic Hospital and the General Hospital into The Ottawa Hospital.[5][6]

The hospital is also the Riverside station for OC Transpo.

The hospital is home to the Kidney Research Centre, a centre within the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. The centre was established in 2000 and is the first place in Canada dedicated to kidney research.[7][8]

In addition, the hospital is home to the Shirley E. Greenberg Women’s Health Centre. The centre is dedicated to research, education, and helping women improve their health.[9][10] The centre sees 30,000 patients a year.[11]

Book

The book Making waves : a history of the Riverside Hospital of Ottawa recounts the hospital's long history.[12][13]

References

  1. ↑ The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. "website". OHRI. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Riverside Hospital endoscopy clinic closing". Ottawa, ON: CBC News. 21 November 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Our History". Ottawa, ON: The Ottawa Hospital. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "OTTAWA HOSPITAL RIVERSIDE CAMPUS [1 record]". TERMIUM Plus®. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  5. ↑ Rowell, Catherine (11 August 2017). "Ottawa Hospital: Transforming health care from the inside out". Healthcare Global. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  6. ↑ Dowden, Craig (23 August 2016). "Collaboration is key for Ottawa Hospital CEO Dr. Jack Kitts". Financial Post. Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  7. ↑ Tong, Tracey (5 December 2013). "The Ottawa Hospital appoints prestigious kidney research chair". Ottawa, ON: Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Archived from the original on 2 February 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  8. ↑ "Kidney Research Centre". Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Archived from the original on 13 September 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  9. ↑ "Shirley E. Greenberg Women's Health Centre". Ottawa, ON: Carlyle Design Associates. Archived from the original on 11 April 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  10. ↑ Jolly, Elaine. "Shirley E. Greenberg Women's Health Centre". Ottawa, ON: The Ottawa Hospital. Archived from the original on 11 April 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  11. ↑ "SHIRLEY E. GREENBERG WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTRE". MP Lundy Construction. Archived from the original on 11 April 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  12. ↑ Knowles, Valerie. Making waves : a history of the Riverside Hospital of Ottawa. Ottawa, ON: The Riverside Hospital of Ottawa. ISBN 9780968157305.
  13. ↑ Knowles, Valerie. "Member Profile". Toronto, ON: Writer's Union of Canada. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
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