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ISSN 0702-7796 Vol. 47 No. 7 Issue no. 516 FREE
Ottawa Hospital Civic campus expansion By Bhagwant Sandhu and Sue Stefko
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After many years of back and forth decision making, the three levels of government jointly announced in 2016 that the Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus would be replaced by a new facility at the eastern side of the Central Experimental Farm, in the vicinity of Carling Avenue, Preston Street and Prince of Wales Drive. Once operational, the new hospital is expected to make a notable impact on nearby communities – built on 50 acres of land, it will have more space than the existing Civic Campus to enable it to accommodate the health-care needs of Ottawa and eastern Ontario’s growing and changing population. In 2018, the hospital assembled a 22-member Campus Engagement Group (CEG) to help plan for the new campus and to ensure community perspectives would be considered. The two of us were selected to represent the Dow’s Lake Residents’ Association, the Glebe Community Association and the Glebe Annex Community Association. The CEG’s other members represent different neighbourhoods and interests, including representatives for patients and families, surrounding neighbourhoods, the Central Experimental Farm, the site’s heritage, the environment, accessibility, as well as several “institutional partners” such as the Ottawa Hospital itself, the City of Ottawa and the National Capital Commission. The CEG’s deliberations are one part of a multi-faceted community engagement process, which also includes activities such as community engagement events and online consultations. Planning for the new campus is in its very early stages. The CEG is presently deliberating, for instance, on ways to ensure the best trade-offs between green space and parking. The vision for the new campus is for it to be a state-of-the-art medical facility that includes research and education components but, more than that, to be fully integrated The current Civic Hospital campus, which opened in 1924, will be replaced by the new campus more than a century later.
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Sept. 15........Glebe House Tour, GCC, 1–4 p.m. Sept. 21........ SMARTNet Sustainability Showcase, Horticulture Bldg., Lansdowne, 10 a.m. Sept. 21........Festival of Small Halls, Brown’s Inlet, 6 p.m. Sept. 24........GCA monthly meeting, GCC, 7 p.m. Sept. 25........Federal election candidates meeting, GCC, 7 p.m. Sept. 27........Capital Ward Councillor’s pop-up office, Sunnyside, 3 p.m. Oct. 2............GNAG Annual General Meeting, GCC, 7 p.m. Oct. 6............Walk for the Centre, to support food security, City Hall, 1:30 p.m. Oct. 6............Animal blessing, St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, 10 a.m. Oct. 19..........St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, Treasures Auction, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
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