Ottawa hospitals to get $9.3 million infrastructure funding

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Five Ottawa hospitals will receive nearly $9.3 million over the next year to repair worn roofs, replace leaking windows, upgrade fire alarm systems, fix aging heating and cooling systems, and address other infrastructure needs.

Eric Hoskins, Ontario minister of Health and Long-Term Care, accompanied by area MPPs John Fraser, Yasir Naqvi and Marie-France Lalonde, made the Health Infrastructure Renewal Funding announcement Monday from The Ottawa Hospital’s critical care wing.

The province has earmarked $10.9 million for the 17 hospitals in the Champlain Local Health Integration Network, or LHIN, covering the area stretching from Pembroke to Cornwall to Hawkesbury. That figure is about $1 million more than the $9.8 the province allotted a year ago, an increase of 9.6 per cent.

The Ottawa Hospital will receive the lion’s share — slightly more than $6.6 million — while Bruyère Continuing Care will get $1.25 million. The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario will get just over $1 million, and the Queensway Carleton Hospital and the University of Ottawa Heart Institute will receive roughly $250,000 and $118,000 respectively.

Individual amounts were determined by the ministry’s Facility Condition Assessment Program, with all Ontario hospitals assessed and measured against each other.

“Imagine for a moment that you have a four-million square-foot house,” explained Ottawa Hospital president and CEO Dr. Jack Kitts, “and half of it is almost 100 years old … just like The Ottawa Hospital.

“And like houses, hospitals require regular maintenance and repairs to ensure that they provide a safe environment for both patients and staff. Today’s announcement enables hospitals … to invest in our aged infrastructure without competing with direct patient-care budgets for operating rooms, critical care beds, new equipment and technologies.”

Cameron Love, the hospital’s chief operating officer, said that TOH’s 90-year-old Civic Campus on Carling Avenue is expected to eat up close to 70 per cent of their allotment.

“The boilers there need to be replaced and two or three roofs have to be replaced.”

Other repairs and upgrades the hospital is planning include ventilation systems at the Rehab Centre, as well as electrical distribution systems and chillers at the Riverside.

And while the amounts don’t cover everything a hospital might want or need, CHEO’s CEO Alex Munter is happy with the $1 million his hospital is receiving. Their priorities, he said, include a new roof, air conditioning and pipes that carry medical gases into rooms.

“If you defer maintenance too long, it will end up costing you more over the longer term. So having these dollars to invest in these fixes and upgrades now is really a cost-avoidance strategy in the long term. And these are projects that have to happen.”

bdeachman@ottawacitizen.com

2015-16 Health Infrastructure Renewal Funding for hospitals in the Champlain LHIN


The Ottawa Hospital: $6,625,456
Bruyère Continuing Care Inc.: $1,253,731
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario: $1,014,628
Pembroke Regional Hospital: $313,206
Queensway Carleton Hospital: $252,053
Arnprior Regional Health: $198,984
Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital: $181,623
Glengarry Memorial Hospital: $158,534
Hawkesbury and District General Hospital: $156,948
Deep River and District Hospital Corporation: $150,691
Kemptville District Hospital: $148,589
University of Ottawa Heart Institute: $117,723
Renfrew Victoria Hospital: $114,798
St. Francis Memorial Hospital: $76,714
Almonte General Hospital: $49,148
Cornwall Community Hospital: $45,007
Winchester District Memorial Hospital: $34,911

Total: $10,892,744

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