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This week, we celebrate the grand opening of the Ottawa Blood Disease Centre – a world-class facility for a world-class team to improve patient care in blood disease in Ottawa.

The opening of the Ottawa Blood Disease Centre represents a huge milestone in improving care for patients with blood disease. This world-class facility, based at The Ottawa Hospital’s General Campus, is the new home to the hospital’s internationally recognized centre of excellence for patient care, research and education in blood disease.

Prior to the opening of the Ottawa Blood Disease Centre, the blood disease team was in nine locations across six buildings on two campuses. This world-class facility brings our blood doctors and allied health professionals together, under one roof, which will improve patient care.

Leaders in the field will want to work in these facilities, allowing us to recruit and keep the best and brightest health professionals in our own backyard so that our region’s patients receive the best quality care. In other words, care we would want for our loved ones.

The Ottawa Blood Disease Centre also brings all our blood disease trainees together under one roof with all their teachers ensuring that we optimally develop tomorrow’s leaders in blood disease who will provide care to future patients both in our region and elsewhere.

The Ottawa Blood Disease Centre is also now the hub for blood disease research in Ottawa. These high-quality facilities will support our world-class scientists. The synergies of bringing our scientists together and recruiting new scientists who will want to work in state-of-the-art facilities will lead to important discoveries that will alleviate suffering for future generations of patients with blood disease around the world.

Dr. Marc Rodger
Chief of Hematology

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