Fact Sheet
Montfort is an essential institution of the Franco-Ontarian community and is a full service hospital with an academic role, with the latter including the provision of clinical training in French for Francophone students and residents from the faculties of Medicine and Health Sciences of the local Universities and Colleges.
The Montfort Hospital’s Capital Redevelopment Project is vital in delivering quality health care services to the Franco-Ontarian community in the Ottawa and Eastern Ontario area, and other Francophone communities in Ontario. The Montfort Hospital’s mission is also to ensure self-sufficiency in health care for the Franco-Ontarian community by providing a clinical milieu enabling the teaching and training of an adequate number of doctors and health care professionals.
Access to Montfort by members of the Francophone community will be significantly enhanced by this major redevelopment project. This will result in enhancing Montfort’s unique role within Ottawa’s and Ontario’s health care system.
In order to fulfill our mandate and provide a full range of health services, Montfort must grow. This growth means more than expanding our facilities. We must also diversify in terms of the services we provide, attract more of the best and brightest to our ranks, add to our state-of-the-art equipment, and above all, apply the highest quality of medical and professional practices in the field today.
Our major expansion project will add over 450,000 square feet of departmental space to the existing building (more than doubling the hospital’s current size) to accommodate new programs and services. The hospital will attain a capacity of 289 acute care beds, plus 128 beds in its Long Term Care Centre. Upon completion of the construction project Montfort will have a total of 750,000 square feet of space.
Expansion of Services
- Emergency room visits will increase from 32, 850 to 56,960 (+73%)
Intensive care growth from 6 to 12 beds - 37,470 to 68,770 in ambulatory care visits (+83%)
- From 7 to 11 operating rooms
- From 6,090 to 9,730 in surgical cases (+65%)
- Over one million diagnostic and therapeutic tests, visits and orders a year
- Mental Health Program will increase from 24 to 60 beds
- Hospital Staff will increase from 950 to 1,500 full time employees
Academic Mission: A Teaching Hospital
- 28 Teaching affiliations
- More than 500 students in 36 different Health Sciences and Social Services disciplines.
- This includes 260 medical students
- A key partnership with the University of Ottawa. A mainstay in clinical training
- An expanded Residency Program in Family Medicine – from 12 to 24 residents
- New Residency Program in Internal Medicine
- New Residency Program in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
The New Montfort Research Institute
- The hospital’s academic mission will be enhanced with the addition of the new Montfort Research Institute
- The new research facility in population health has already attracted national research scientists of tomorrow
Montfort Women’s Health
- A new model of healthcare unique in a community setting
- A one step access in Obstetrics/Gynaecology and newborns
- Midwife services
- Births at Montfort from 1,220 to 2,700 a year
- Breast cancer detection and prevention
- Women’s cardiac detection and prevention
Partnership with the Department of National Defence (DND)
- DND is relocating Healthcare Centre for National Capital Region to the Montfort Hospital
- New model of healthcare for Canadian Forces
- New medical and professional expertise (post traumatic stress disorder, training injuries)
- New teachers for Academic Centre
- Military physicians to be integrated into Montfort setting