Montfort Hospital: Facts and figures
January 10th, 2009 Posted in Health and Safety, News and Commentary, Video and Audio Clips
Some facts and figures about the Montfort Hospital, which will be negatively impacted by the Kettle Island bridge.
On the expansion of Montfort:
- In 2006, the government announced a $283 million investment to expand the Montfort hospital. This will increase the size of the hospital by 125% and will add 450,000 square feet of new space.
- Furthermore, The hospital has invested $21 million in new equipment, and will be investing an additional $40 million, bringing the total to $61 million apart from the initial cost of $283 million.
- At the end of the construction and renovations, Montfort will have 289 beds available for acute care, plus 128 beds for long term care (total: 417 beds).
On services available at the end of the construction:
- Visits at the emergency will increase by 73%, and will accommodate more than 55,000 visits per year
- Intensive care unit will double in size
- Surgery rooms will rise from 7 to 11, and cases of surgery will increase from 6,090 to 9,730 a year
- 84% increase in the number of visits due to exams, medical orders, etc. for a total of 1 million visits per year
- The number of hospital employees will rise from 950 to 1,500
On training:
- Montfort will accommodate 500 students in 36 disciplines related to health care, including 260 students in medicine
- Montfort also has a key partnership with Ottawa University and is the hospital offering the most support in terms of practical experience for students in medicine
On women and children’s health:
- Increase in the number of deliveries from 1,220 to 2,700 per year.
- This year the Montfort will host 2,800 deliveries
- 18 single rooms for labour, birth, recovery and post-partum, plus 11 traditional rooms, whereas previously there were 6 labour beds and a post partum unit of 14 beds.
- Montfort will also provide a new model for providing health services to women in partnership with the community
Note that the new Montfort will include a new Health Centre for National Defence in the National Capital region, in association with DND. A new team of specialists will integrate the hospital to provide specialized care to the military.
How does the Montfort Hospital feel about the Kettle Island bridge and the impact on its ability to care for its patients? Check out the videos below for coverage of the Montfort press conference on the topic:
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January 13th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Cost keeps coming up as a major consideration in every report from the contractors. I’m guessing this is because the NCC, and the cities of Ottawa and Gatineau, have been busy over the past 40 years acquiring land on either side in preparation for this bridge at this location. Would the results of the consultants be any different if the cost of acquiring land at any of the other sites was removed from the equation?? I think it would.
In light of recent revelations regarding council recommendations from the past, this whole thing reeks of backroom dealings and underhanded processes to ram through a bridge in our area. It might be good to know who has realestate holdings or interests along the corridor on either side of Kettle Island, and stands to benefit from a bridge at this location rather than at another location. No one has mentioned the elementary school playground that is mere metres from the existing avaiation parkway road,and the multitude of children that routinely cross the aviation parkway everyday on their way to and from schools on either side of the parkway; nor the joggers, walkers, and cyclists that use the parkway everyday. A road that they say will have to be widened and has been cleared for the transportation of hazardous material. Just ask anyone that has experienced it what close proximity to a major truck route does to the saleability of their property and market value of their home. None of us in Rockliffe Mews development was informed by the builder, the city or the NCC of their plans for the parkway when our development was being offered for sale. I doubt many of us would have purchased had we known that a major interprovincial truck route would be metres from our backyards, along with the sound and air pollution that goes with it. I have respiratory problems and chose the area because it had limited exposure to traffic exhaust so I could breathe easier. These trucks by the way are exempt from emission controls, so they dump even more pollutants into the air.
Building it at lower duck island or at the other location makes sound economic, environmental, and logical sense and addresses present and future population growth and transportation needs for the entire region. Kettle island does not.