Queensway Carleton Hospital

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Queensway Carleton Hospital 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, 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 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.FundingQCH 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.At-A-Glance (2016-2017)Services: Emergency visits – 77,989Day stay surgeries – 19,254Surgical inpatients – 5,026Medical inpatients – 5,094Mental Health inpatients – 666Rehabilitation outpatient visits - 32,508Rehabilitation inpatients - 754Births – 2,365Clinic & day program visits – 81,902Diagnostic Imaging tests – 146,043Cardiopulmonary procedures – 49,856 Personnel: 1980 Employees292 Physicians804 Nurses575 Volunteers