Queensway Carleton Hospital
| Queensway Carleton Hospital | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 3045 Baseline Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 45°20′5.35″N 75°48′27.61″W / 45.3348194°N 75.8076694°W |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP) |
| Funding | Public hospital |
| Hospital type | General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 264 |
| Helipad | No |
| History | |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) is a 264-bed hospital located in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that delivers short-term primary and secondary health care.
QCH was officially opened on October 5th, 1976 by then Ontario Premier William Davis and currently serves a population of more than 400,000 and is the secondary referral center for the Ottawa Valley. QCH focuses on its cornerstone health care programs --- Emergency, Childbirth, Geriatric, Mental Health, Rehabilitation, Cancer Care, Medical and Surgical Services and Critical Care Services.
In 2015 QCH obtained its "Accreditation with Exemplary Standing" from Accreditation Canada, the highest award level of accreditation with an overall compliance score of 99.4 (2014/2026 compliant standards) and meeting all 31/31 Required Organizational Practices.
The executive management team is led by President and Chief Executive Officer Tom Schonberg and the medical team reports to Chief of Staff Dr. Andrew Falconer.
QCH is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (a ministry of the Ontario Provincial Government), the QCH Foundation as well as by a variety of public and individual donations.
In 1986, QCH's first expansion took place from the original 1976 building, adding an additional 160 acute care beds, Ambulatory Care services, Diagnostic Imaging services and additional Administrative space.
Between 1998 and 2000, in response to provincial hospital restructuring and amalgamation of services, QCH completed Phase 1 expansion which included a new Birthing Centre that included the incorporation of the previous Grace Hospital's Newborn Program and an expanded Diagnostic Imaging program that included QCH's first CT scanner.
Between 2003 and 2005, approved Phase 2 restructuring expansion and renovations at QCH allowed for significant growth in the Emergency Department (the busiest single-site Emergency Department in Eastern Ontario with almost 78,000 visits yearly in 2017), in-patient medicine and surgery units, ICU and surgery capacity, as well as incremental growth in other clinical and support areas.
Between 2008 and 2010, in partnership with Cancer Care Ontario and The Ottawa Hospital Regional Cancer Center Program, the Irving Greenberg Family Cancer Center (IGFCC) was opened on the QCH campus to provide cancer diagnosis, treatment, surgery and ambulatory support. The facility includes 3x radiation treatment machines, 2x clinics and 33x chemotherapy spaces. The first patients were treated in April 2010.
In 2012, a 10-year Phase 3 expansion project was completed that provided the following improvements to QCH facilities: 10 new Operating Room suites, a new and expanded Ambulatory Care Centre, a new Rehabilitation Centre, a new Physiotherapy Centre and a 15-station Hemodialysis unit. The 140,000 sq ft expansion also included renovations to the Pharmacy and Laboratory departments and significantly expanded the Diagnostic Imaging department, doubling the number of MRI and CT scanners plus adding additional Nuclear Medicine and biopsy units.
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