Queensway-Carleton Hospital

Queensway-Carleton Hospital

Queensway Carleton Hospital, opened in 1976 by William Davis, is a 264-bed facility in Ottawa's west end, and serves a population of over 400,000. Queensway Carleton Hospital is a patient and family-centred, urban community hospital providing a broad range of acute care services to the people of Ottawa and the Ottawa Valley. Employing over 1,800 health care professionals, the 264-bed, Queensway Carleton Hospital is the secondary referral centre for the Ottawa Valley. Hospital staff focuses on maintaining and enhancing their cornerstone programs – Emergency, Childbirth, Geriatrics, Mental Health, Medical and Surgical Services and Rehabilitation. Grounded on an environment of lifelong learning, the Queensway Carleton Hospital is a teaching partner with the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine and other healthcare programs and is committed to delivering a new standard of care for our community. The hospital provides Emergency, Childbirth, Geriatrics, Mental Health, Rehabilitation, Cancer care, Medical and Surgical Services, and is currently undergoing a much-needed expansion and renovation.

Approved restructuring expansion and renovations at the hospital allowed for significant growth in the Emergency (the busiest single site Emergency Department in eastern Ontario), inpatient medicine and surgery units, ICU and surgery capacity of the hospital, as well as incremental growth in other clinical and support areas. In addition, the 10-year expansion project will provide the following improvements: 10 state-of-the-art new operating suites, a new and exanded Ambualtory Care Centre, renovated facilities for Diagnostic Imaging, including the addition of a second MRI, a new Rehabilitation Centre and a 15-station dialysis unit. The expansion project is slated to be completed in January 2014.