The Ottawa Hospital

• Providing comprehensive, high quality, patient-focused health services for the population served;
• Providing specialized and complex health care for the residents of eastern and northeastern Ontario;
• Developing and sharing new knowledge through basic and clinical research in partnership with our research institutes to advance the understanding and promotion of health, the prevention and treatment of illness;
• Educating a wide range of health care providers in partnership with universities, community colleges and community agencies;
• Collaborating with all care providers, community agencies and other institutions to achieve an efficient and integrated continuum of health care delivery;
• Providing the resources, policies and milieu to accomplish this mission in English and French.

• One of the largest acute care hospitals in Canada
• Annual operating budget of $460 million
• Services provided on three sites:  the Civic, General and Riverside Campuses
• 1,050 beds in service
• The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, The Loeb Health Research Institute and the University of Ottawa Heart Institute Research Centre makes The Ottawa Hospital's facilities one of the largest and most modern medical research complexes in Ontario
• The Ottawa Regional Women's Breast Health Centre is a community partnership with local agencies and hospitals and consolidates all elements of diagnosis, treatment planning and support in one location
• More than 139,000 emergency visits per year
• 43 operating rooms between the Civic and General Campuses
• 58,407 surgical procedures per year, including 24,837 day surgery procedures
• 404,427 out-patient visits per year
• 81 obstetrical beds at the Civic and General Campuses
• 7,764 births per year
• CT and MRI services at the Civic and General Campuses and CT also available at the Riverside Campus
• 39 intensive care beds total at the Civic and General Campuses
• 43,439 admissions per year
• Average length of stay is 7.74 days
• The region's third largest employer with almost 10,000 employees and 1,200 physicians on staff

In-patients services are provided at the Civic and General Campuses of The Ottawa Hospital. The Riverside Campus is a "day treatment" health centre, with no overnight stays. If you are having day surgery or other elective surgery, your appointment date and other information will most likely be provided to you at your Pre-Admission appointment. In other situations, your doctor's office will inform you of the date and time to arrive at the hospital. If there is a change in scheduling, you will be called by either your doctor or the Admitting Department. 

• Admission Documents 
• Ontario Health Card 
• Health Insurance information 
• A small amount of cash for personal needs such as newspapers, telephone/television rental fees, etc. 
• Personal items such as essential items and toiletries, nightwear, non-slip slippers/footwear, hearing aids, dentures and denture cup, eyeglasses, etc. for overnight stays 
• A list of medications you are currently taking 
• Valuables such as wallets, credit cards and jewellery should be left at home. If this is not possible, safety deposit boxes are through Security Services at each campus. 

The Civic Campus 

There is a drop-off area located in front of the Admitting Department and at the main entrance to the Parkdale Clinic. For visitors, parking is available in the P1 multi-level parking garage or the P2 parking lot on Ruskin Street. Parking rates are based on a half-hour period with a maximum daily rate. There are also parking meters along all hospital roadways.

Special parking passes at reduced rates are available on a weekly and monthly basis. The parking attendant in the P1 multi-level parking garage will issue this pass at your request, or call ext. 4987 from within the hospital.

When someone being treated in the Emergency Department requires admission, the patient may request a special parking pass from the Emergency Department that permits parking at a reduced rate.

There is a drop-off area at the main entrance to the hospital, with short-term parking meters. For visitors, parking is available in the parking garage.

Parking rates are based on a half-hour period with a maximum daily rate. Special parking passes at reduced rates are available on a weekly and monthly basis from the cashier next to the Admitting Department.

When someone being treated in the Emergency Department requires admission, the patient may request special parking pass from the Emergency Department that permits parking at a reduced rate.

There is a drop-off area at the main entrance to the hospital, with limited metered parking. For visitors, parking is available in the main hospital lot. 

At all three campuses, parking for persons with a disability is available at the main entrance, emergency entrance and in the parking garages/lots. 

Revenue generated from all parking facilities is used to support patient care.

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