As the future home of Canada\u2019s most advanced trauma centre and one of the world\u2019s most innovative neuroscience research programs, our new campus will transform health care in our community and beyond\u2014but future innovations at The Ottawa Hospital aren\u2019t confined to just one location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe General, Civic and Riverside campuses have served our city for decades and will continue to do so for many more to come,\u201d says Joanne Read, Executive Vice-President and Chief Planning & Development Officer at The Ottawa Hospital. \u201cOur community is one of the fastest growing in the province\u2014and we need to meet this increased demand with increased capacity. The new campus is critical to accomplishing this goal, but so are our existing three campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have dozens of projects in the works to transform many spaces at the General, Civic and Riverside,\u201d explains Karen Stockton, Executive Director of Planning. \u201cAs these projects materialize over the coming years, we will be able to care for more members of our growing community and offer a greater depth and breadth of services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Want a closer look at the future of health care in Ottawa? Here\u2019s a preview of just a few innovations coming to our campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To expand care services for our community\u2019s growing senior population, both the Civic and Riverside campuses will be future sites of long-term care homes run by Schlegel Villages. As part of the Ontario government\u2019s commitment to build 30,000 new long-term care beds by 2028, 320 new beds have been allocated to the Civic home and 256 to Riverside. The Riverside home will be a completely new building and is slated to open in the next two to three years, followed by the Civic after our new campus opens in 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Cancer Centre has acquired a new MRI machine that will help address present and future MRI needs of the Ottawa community as well as support the hospital\u2019s extensive teaching, research and training commitments. Scheduled to be installed by summer 2024, this MRI machine embraces the latest technology, producing higher-quality images and creating a better patient experience due to shorter examination times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ottawa Hospital is also making innovations to the Cancer Centre\u2019s Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, which performs hundreds of stem cell transplants every year to treat patients with life threatening blood and immune disorders. We recently expanded the program\u2019s medical day care unit, which provides our patients with a variety of treatments that do not require admission to the hospital. By 2023, we will have finished upgrading the program\u2019s inpatient beds to the latest design standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre assists patients who have experienced a disabling physical illness or injury, helping them maximize their independence and rebuild their lives. Currently located at the General Campus, the centre will move to the existing Civic Campus after the new campus opens its doors in 2028. A new building will be constructed to house the updated centre, which will offer expanded bed capacity, a modern design, improved accessibility and an overall more comfortable environment for patients and staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Situated alongside the city\u2019s public transit network, the Riverside Campus is the ideal location for our designated ambulatory care centre, which provides our community with a wide array of outpatient care services. As use of public transit grows, we want our services to grow accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Nephrology Program, already one of the largest in Canada, will see further expansion to meet growing demand, allowing the Riverside\u2019s nephrology clinic to deliver its broad range of services to even more patients affected by kidney disease. The Department of Ophthalmology is also making plans to accommodate future patient growth, with early discussions exploring how to optimize the existing space and whether new space will be needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the General Campus cares for extremely premature infants and is the designated high-risk referral centre for Eastern and Southeastern Ontario and Western Quebec. The Division of Neonatology is planning a multi-year expansion project, with bed capacity at the NICU currently estimated to grow by 15 percent, allowing us to care for more of our community\u2019s youngest patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ottawa Hospital and its Research Institute are also planning a number of upgrades to research infrastructure. For example, in our Biotherapeutics Manufacturing Centre at the General Campus, renovations are currently underway to install a new robotic machine that produces genetically-enhanced immune cells targeted to cancer cells. This innovative therapy, called CAR-T therapy, has been able to cure patients with certain kinds of blood cancer who had no other hope. The Biotherapeutics Manufacturing Centre will also undergo a larger expansion in the coming years to enhance our ability to produce new therapies for diseases that affect the brain, heart, lungs and other organs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Learn about some of our recent campus upgrades and what we have planned for our new campus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As we set out to build one of the most advanced hospitals in the country, we\u2019re often asked what we have planned for our existing campuses. From installing new equipment to opening long-term care homes, we have a number of projects in the works to enhance and expand our world-class services at all our locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":74023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[67,418],"class_list":["post-74022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-tomorrows","tag-innovation","tag-new-campus-development"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}