The Ottawa Hospital (french: L'Hôpital d'Ottawa) is a

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Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...

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, Canada. The system was formed through the merger of the former Grace Hospital, Ottawa Riverside Hospital,

Ottawa General Hospital The Ottawa Hospital's General Campus is one of three main campuses of The Ottawa Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. With 569 beds, the General Campus includes The Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre and the Cancer Centre. The Ottawa General H ...

and

Ottawa Civic Hospital The Ottawa Civic Hospital is one of three main campuses of The Ottawa Hospital – along with the General and Riverside campuses. With 549 beds (including the Heart Institute), the Civic Campus has the region's only adult-care trauma centre, servin ...

. The system is affiliated with the

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, and its three campuses are all

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s (the

University of Ottawa Heart Institute The University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) ''(French: Institut de cardiologie de l'Université d'Ottawa (ICUO))'' is Canada's largest cardiovascular health centre. It is located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It began as a department in The Ottaw ...

is located at the hospital's Civic Campus). The Ottawa Hospital's Civic campus is also one of the two trauma centres serving

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and southern

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. The other is the

Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario CHEO is a pediatric health-care and research centre located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. CHEO is also a tertiary trauma centre for children in Eastern Ontario, Nunavut, Northern Ontario and the Outaouais region of Quebec and one of only seven Leve ...

, accommodating juvenile and adolescent patients. The Ottawa Hospital's General campus is home to the Ottawa Hospital Cancer Center, the main site of the Ottawa Hospital Cancer Program and the Champlain Regional Cancer Program. This program runs in conjunction with the Irving Greenberg Family Cancer Centre located at the

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, located on the western side of Ottawa, also operated by the Ottawa Hospital. The General Campus provides specialized in and outpatient services for hematological diseases, as well as radiation and medical oncology.

Research

The

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI), formerly Ottawa Health Research Institute, is a non-profit academic health research institute located in the city of Ottawa. It was formed in 2001 following the merger of three Ottawa hospitals. The ...

(OHRI) is a non-profit academic health

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that is part of The Ottawa Hospital, and a major part of the University of Ottawa Faculties of Medicine and Health Science. Formed on April 1, 2001, by the merger of the Loeb Health Research Institute and the Ottawa Health Research Institute, the OHRI is a multi-campus facility with more than 2,000 scientists, clinician investigators, trainees and staff. These researchers are studying more than a hundred different diseases, conditions and specialties with an overall focus on translating discoveries and knowledge into better health.

Riverside Hospital of Ottawa

The Ottawa Hospital's Riverside Campus is one of three main campuses of The Ottawa Hospital – along with the Civic and General campuses, and is the only campus that does not admit patients and has no emergency department. The facility operates for out-patient treatment and procedures during the day Monday - Friday. The Riverside Hospital of Ottawa first opened in 1967 on Riverside Drive close to where the current General campus and the

is located on Symth Road On 1 April 1998 the hospital was amalgamated with the Civic Hospital and the General Hospital into The Ottawa Hospital. The hospital is also the Riverside station for

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. The hospital is home to the Kidney Research Centre, a centre within the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. The centre was established in 2000 and is the first place in Canada dedicated to kidney research. In addition, the hospital is home to the Shirley E. Greenberg Women's Health Centre. The centre is dedicated to research, education, and helping women improve their health. The centre sees 30,000 patients a year.

Book

The book ''Making waves: a history of the Riverside Hospital of Ottawa'' recounts the hospital's long history.

Helipads

The General campus shares the ground level helipad located next to CHEO for ground ambulance transfers to the General. There is a helipad located at the hospital's civic campus located across Carling Avenue. The helipad is used by medevac as the majority of landings take place there as the civic campus is the site of Ottawa's level 1 trauma centre.

References

External links

Ottawa Hospital Foundation

OH Kidney Research Centre
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