Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) is a 264-bed patient and family-centered hospital located in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. QCH was officially opened on October 5th, 1976 by then Ontario Premier William Davis and currently serves a population of 400,000 and is the primary referral center for the Ottawa Valley. The hospital provides Emergency, Childbirth, Geriatric, Mental Health, Rehabilitation, Cancer Care, Medical and Surgical Services, and is currently undergoing expansion and renovation.
Approved restructuring expansion and renovations at the hospital 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), inpatient medicine and surgery units, ICU and surgery capacity of the hospital, as well as incremental growth in other clinical and support areas. The recent 10-year expansion project has provided the following improvements to QCH facilities: 10 new operating suites, a new and expanded Ambulatory Care Centre, renovated facilities for Diagnostic Imaging, including the addition of a second MRI unit, a new Rehabilitation Centre and a 15-station dialysis unit.
In 2014, Premier Wynne and Ontario Minister of Energy Bob Chiarelli announced the approval of a new Acute Care of the Elderly (ACE) Unit at QCH. The $9.6 million project will address the special needs of the frail elderly and will help prepare them for a return home. The unit will only be the second in Ontario after Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.
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Funding
QCH is funded by the provincial government of Ontario's Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, the QCH Foundation as well as by a variety of public donations.
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At-A-Glance (2016-2017)
- Services:
- Emergency visits - 77,989
- Day stay surgeries - 19,254
- Surgical inpatients - 5,026
- Medical inpatients - 5,094
- Mental Health inpatients - 666
- Rehabilitation outpatient visits - 32,508
- Rehabilitation inpatients - 754
- Births - 2,365
- Clinic & day program visits - 81,902
- Diagnostic Imaging tests - 146,043
- Cardiopulmonary procedures - 49,856
- Personnel:
- 1980 Employees
- 292 Physicians
- 804 Nurses
- 575 Volunteers
One Dollar Rent
Queensway Carleton Hospital was built on NCC land, and since its opening, had paid roughly $1 million in rent to the federal government. Rent of $23,000 per year was set for a contract through to 2013, at which point the rent was expected to increase to reflect the current market value of the land.
Pierre Poilievre, MP representing Nepean--Carleton, attempted to reduce the rent of the hospital to $1 per year during his first term in office. Poilievre, a Conservative in the opposition at the time, introduced a bill in November 2005 seeking to reduce the hospital's rent. It was supported by the Conservatives and the New Democratic Party, but was voted down by the Liberals and Bloc Québécois.
Poilievre was re-elected in the 2006 election, this time as part of the Conservative minority government. He was named Parliamentary secretary to John Baird, President of the Treasury Board. Together, they unveiled a plan on August 2, 2006 which would use treasury board funds to pay the NCC rent on behalf of the hospital, such that the hospital pays $1 in rent.
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