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The premier was at the Ottawa Hospitalâs General campus Monday to announce $16.9 million in new funding, which officials said will help alleviate the pandemic-related backlog of surgical care at the hospital.
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OTTAWA The head of the Ottawa Hospital says COVID-19 patient transfers from Toronto-area hospitals have stopped, helping to relieve some of the pressure on the hospital during the third wave of the pandemic. Ottawa hospitals have received 50 to 60 patient transfers from the Toronto-area over the past month or so. I think we re definitely headed in the right direction. I was very concerned three weeks ago, said Cameron Love, president and CEO of the Ottawa Hospital. Love noted Ottawa s seven day average was over 300 cases of COVID-19 in mid-April and there were more than 100 patients in Ottawa hospitals with COVID-19.
Posted: May 04, 2021 4:25 PM ET | Last Updated: May 4
The main entrance of the future Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital will include a glass atrium that lets in natural light. The 11-storey south tower, with a helipad on its roof, and seven-storey north tower will house outpatient care clinics as well as inpatient units.(The Ottawa Hospital)
The design for The Ottawa Hospital s new Civic campus will showcase the future of health care, its CEO promised Tuesday a future shaped by lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The $2.8-billion campus at Dow s Lake is set to begin construction in 2024 and open in 2028, Cameron Love told city council members during a briefing.
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After 14 years of planning and pondering, the Ottawa Hospital’s new Civic campus is finally moving closer to reality. Well, OK, it’s still an estimated seven years from completion, but the long overdue update the hospital released Tuesday still marks a rapid acceleration from the languid pace of the past.
It wasn’t entirely apparent from CEO Cameron Love’s presentation, but the past year has contained almost all of the meaningful progress the hospital has made on its expansion plan. Just a year ago, it had a rough drawing of a building that looked like a doughnut with two bites out of it. Love calls that version “very much a preliminary concept.”