The Ottawa Hospital

The Ottawa Hospital
General Campus
Location in Ottawa
Geography
Location	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates	45°24′05″N 075°38′52″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	1,195
History
Founded	1998
Links
Website	www.ottawahospital.on.ca
Lists	Hospitals in Canada

The Ottawa Hospital or L'Hôpital d'Ottawa is a major, non-profit, public, university teaching hospital in Ottawa 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. They are affiliated with the University of Ottawa, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.

History

During World War II, when Canada provided refuge to the Dutch royal family, the then Princess Juliana gave birth to her daughter Princess Margriet in Ottawa, at the Ottawa Civic Hospital, whose maternity ward was temporarily declared to be officially part of international territory so that Margriet would only inherit Dutch citizenship from her mother.

Civic Campus

The Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus, was established in 1845. 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 Childrens 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 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.

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 enormous 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, 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:

• Dan Aykroyd (b. 1 July 1952) Canadian-American actor and comedian.
• Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (b. 19 January 1943) Dutch Princess of the Dutch throne.

External links

• Foundation
• OH Kidney Research Centre