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The University of Ottawa Heart Institute expects to remain at its current location for the next 35 years or more, its board chairman Lawrence Soloway confirmed Tuesday.
That means the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital and the Heart Institute, which currently coexist on the same site, could operate separately for decades after the Civic is rebuilt.
It is a prospect Heart Institute officials say will be “more than manageable.”
The Heart Institute is in the midst of a $230 million expansion that will not be fully complete until 2020. Ottawa Hospital CEO Dr. Jack Kitts has said he would like to see a new Civic hospital open by 2026.
Soloway’s comments, made after a provincial infrastructure update held at the Heart Institute Tuesday morning, put to rest speculation about when the Heart Institute would relocate to the Sir John Carling site, where the new Civic hospital is slated to be built.
Soloway said the Heart Institute did not undertake its “urgently needed” expansion in order to use it for only 10 or 15 years. “That would be foolish,” he said.
“It took almost 15 years to get the expansion (to this point). We will use this facility for its expected useful lifespan.” That, he said, could be as long as 35 years after its completion, although timing is difficult to predict.
The question of whether the two institutions would or could operate separately has been unclear in recent months. National Capital Commission board members, who selected Tunney’s Pasture (later rejected) for a new hospital, seemed uncertain about whether the Heart Institute would move to a new site at the same time as the hospital.
And, in a December interview with the Citizen, The Ottawa Hospital CEO Cameron Love suggested the Heart Institute and hospital could not be separated, something that raised eyebrows at the Heart Institute, the Citizen has been told.
Soloway said the plan has always been that the Heart Institute would relocate to the site of the new Civic as the project’s last phase. “There will be a period where the Civic will be relocated and we will be here.”
He said he has been assured by Heart Institute president Dr. Thierry Mesana that separation “will be more than manageable” and very efficient. He said the Heart Institute will eventually move to the new site.
“The existing Heart Institute is mostly (from the) ‘70s. Eventually we will need a new Heart Institute. The timing doesn’t completely synchronize, but it is close and it is workable,” said Soloway.
The two health institutions share some services and staff, although they are independent entities. The Heart Institute is not considered a hospital under Ontario law, but is the cardiac referral centre for all the hospitals in the Champlain LHIN region.
Increasing numbers of cardiac patients in the region go directly to the Heart Institute, rather than being transferred from a hospital. Under the STEMI program (for ST-elevation myocardia infarction, the most dangerous type of heart attack), patients can be identified by paramedics and taken directly to the Heart Institute.
Patients are also transferred to the Heart Institute for specialized treatment from other hospitals across the region.
Dr. Wilbert Keon, who founded the heart institute in 1976, said in an interview that its independence has helped insure its excellence over the years.
But he added that he wanted the Heart Institute located next to the Civic hospital because the two institutions “need each other.”
epayne@postmedia.com
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That means the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital and the Heart Institute, which currently coexist on the same site, could operate separately for decades after the Civic is rebuilt.
It is a prospect Heart Institute officials say will be “more than manageable.”
The Heart Institute is in the midst of a $230 million expansion that will not be fully complete until 2020. Ottawa Hospital CEO Dr. Jack Kitts has said he would like to see a new Civic hospital open by 2026.
Soloway’s comments, made after a provincial infrastructure update held at the Heart Institute Tuesday morning, put to rest speculation about when the Heart Institute would relocate to the Sir John Carling site, where the new Civic hospital is slated to be built.
Soloway said the Heart Institute did not undertake its “urgently needed” expansion in order to use it for only 10 or 15 years. “That would be foolish,” he said.
“It took almost 15 years to get the expansion (to this point). We will use this facility for its expected useful lifespan.” That, he said, could be as long as 35 years after its completion, although timing is difficult to predict.
The question of whether the two institutions would or could operate separately has been unclear in recent months. National Capital Commission board members, who selected Tunney’s Pasture (later rejected) for a new hospital, seemed uncertain about whether the Heart Institute would move to a new site at the same time as the hospital.
And, in a December interview with the Citizen, The Ottawa Hospital CEO Cameron Love suggested the Heart Institute and hospital could not be separated, something that raised eyebrows at the Heart Institute, the Citizen has been told.
Soloway said the plan has always been that the Heart Institute would relocate to the site of the new Civic as the project’s last phase. “There will be a period where the Civic will be relocated and we will be here.”
He said he has been assured by Heart Institute president Dr. Thierry Mesana that separation “will be more than manageable” and very efficient. He said the Heart Institute will eventually move to the new site.
“The existing Heart Institute is mostly (from the) ‘70s. Eventually we will need a new Heart Institute. The timing doesn’t completely synchronize, but it is close and it is workable,” said Soloway.
The two health institutions share some services and staff, although they are independent entities. The Heart Institute is not considered a hospital under Ontario law, but is the cardiac referral centre for all the hospitals in the Champlain LHIN region.
Increasing numbers of cardiac patients in the region go directly to the Heart Institute, rather than being transferred from a hospital. Under the STEMI program (for ST-elevation myocardia infarction, the most dangerous type of heart attack), patients can be identified by paramedics and taken directly to the Heart Institute.
Patients are also transferred to the Heart Institute for specialized treatment from other hospitals across the region.
Dr. Wilbert Keon, who founded the heart institute in 1976, said in an interview that its independence has helped insure its excellence over the years.
But he added that he wanted the Heart Institute located next to the Civic hospital because the two institutions “need each other.”
epayne@postmedia.com
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