{"id":1632,"date":"2012-05-31T15:48:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T19:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2017-04-03T12:42:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:42:58","slug":"the-ottawa-hospital-opens-the-ottawa-blood-disease-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/newsroom\/the-ottawa-hospital-opens-the-ottawa-blood-disease-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Hospital opens the Ottawa Blood Disease Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 31, 2012<\/strong> \u2013 Today, The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) celebrates the 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.<\/p>\n<p>The opening of the Ottawa Blood Disease Centre represents a huge milestone in improving care for the more than thirty thousand Ottawa-area patients who suffer from blood disorders and blood cancers, or who require blood or bone marrow transplants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ottawa Blood Disease Centre brings the best and brightest health-care professionals and researchers together under one roof,\u201d said Dr. Marc Rodger, Chief of Hematology, The Ottawa Hospital, Senior Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Professor of Medicine, University of Ottawa \u201cThis will improve patient care, accelerate life-saving research and help us train tomorrow\u2019s leaders in blood disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Blood Disease Centre is based at the new Centre for Practice-Changing Research at The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s General Campus. Prior to the opening of the centre, the blood disease team was scattered in nine locations across six buildings on two campuses.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Hospital, in partnership with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the University of Ottawa, is already a leader in world-class care, research and training in blood diseases. For example, members of the Ottawa Blood Disease Centre have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Developed a procedure for diagnosing vein blood clots that is used around the world (called the Wells Rule, after Dr. Phil Wells) and a procedure to decide who should stay on blood thinners indefinitely after an unprovoked vein blood clot (called the \u201cMen continue and HERDOO2 rule\u201d).<\/li>\n<li>Implemented an innovative outpatient bone marrow transplant program that has allowed thousands of patients to be treated more conveniently without an overnight stay, while freeing up inpatient beds for others.<\/li>\n<li>Led a ground-breaking clinical trial of a bone marrow stem cell transplantation therapy for multiple sclerosis, with promising results that have attracted attention around the world.<\/li>\n<li>Implemented a comprehensive program for managing blood-thinning medications in people who have a high risk of developing blood clots. Because of this program, patients at TOH have the optimal blood thickness 80 per cent of the time, compared to 50 to 60 per cent in many other centres.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Media Contact:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Hazel Harding<br \/>\nCommunications Advisor<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:hharding@toh.on.ca\">hharding@toh.on.ca<br \/>\n<\/a>Tel.: 613-737-8460<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 31, 2012 \u2013 Today, The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) celebrates the 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. 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