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Queensway Carleton Hospital Expansion [3045 Baseline Rd] | to 31m | to 7f | Proposed

The Queensway Carleton Hospital is proposing to expand the existing hospital use at 3045 Baseline Road. The proposed expansions include additions to the Inpatient Tower, Transitional Care Tower, Ambulatory Care Unit, and Emergency Department. A parking garage with more than 553 parking spaces is proposed on the Subject Site. Along with proposed changes to the existing parking layout, this will bring the total number of parking spaces on the Subject Site to 1,742 parking spaces. The existing greenspace on the Subject Site, including the pathways to the west of the Subject Site, will be maintained.

Phasing:

Parking Garage
Support Services Addition
James Beach Tower Expansion for Medical/Surgical Inpatient Services
Emergency Department
ICU and Transitional Care Inpatient Tower

That's a significant expansion. Must be at least double the size.

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Originally Posted by J.OT13 (Post 10545173)

That's a significant expansion. Must be at least double the size.

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The Baseline Road hospital put forth a proposal to the province including the ER expansion and addition of 90 new inpatient beds to be built on top of the current structure.

The price tag for the expansion is $640 million, Falconer said, noting it's much needed to relieve the pressure its departments are trying to manage.

“The community [has] expanded tremendously and the emergency department was built to see 63,000 patients a year. We're currently seeing greater than 83,000 patients a year,” he said. Ottawa's Queensway Carleton Hospital is looking to more than double the size of its emergency department and add 90 inpatient beds.

Just last week, the hospital said it was 16 per cent over capacity, with 29 patients in the emergency department who should be admitted but couldn’t due to a lack of open beds.

In the latest data from Ontario Health, the average wait time for ER patients to be first assessed by a doctor is 2.7 hours, which is nearly an hour more than the provincial average.

The average length of stay in emergency for patients who are admitted to the hospital is 17.5 hours.

If given the green light, Falconer said the construction would be split into several small projects, allowing for the different expansions to be built simultaneously.

The above 'selected' text is from this article https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...dule-9.7046095

TLDR: 90 new inpatient beds (currently at 355, so 445) and more than double current emergency capacity

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Originally Posted by skyscraperaccount (Post 10545285)

Thanks for the info. I'm surprised it's so low. I'm also surprised they have so many beds to begin with. QCH looks smaller than it it. It's very hard to believe that it's bigger than Montfort, though Montfort probably has more services (mental health, VA wing) that aren't in the bed count.

EDIT side note: QCH looks very complicated. The original hospital is the two random wings at the south-west corner, and the small box attached to it where the Tim Hortons is, and it expanded in a haphazard way after that. The Civic expansions are similar.

They knew how to build coherent hospitals up until the 1960s, then started build jumbled messes (with the General being an exception to the rule) up until recently. The new Civic has a very simple design reminiscent of, well, the old Civic (simple H) and they know how it will expand in the future.

I don't even understand where the 355 beds even are. There are so few windows where rooms could be. It's a very low, sprawling complex.

Some context of why QCH is looking to expand.

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Hospitals press province to help remedy capacity woes

Ottawa Citizen
ELIZABETH PAYNE
16 Jan 2026

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Queensway Carleton Hospital president and chief executive Dr. Andrew Falconer said the hospital was at 120 per cent capacity one day this week, with 75 patients in “unconventional spaces.” Both hospitals say they badly need to expand to manage soaring demand.

The continuing influenza season has strained most hospitals and created long waits in emergency departments, but many hospitals remain over capacity throughout the year.

Queensway Carleton serves 500,000 people every year, Falconer said, and has an emergency department that was built for 63,000 annual visits, but now serves around 83,000 patients. The hospital, he said, desperately needs to expand its emergency department and to add 90 patient beds. It is awaiting a response from the provincial government to its request for money to expand.

“We know the community urgently needs this, and we are waiting for the nod from the government to proceed,” Falconer said.

This week, Falconer had a much smaller request for the government: $15 million for non-academic and rural hospitals to help them take advantage of innovative technology developed in Ontario to improve health-care delivery. Among examples, he said, Sickkids in Toronto uses new technology called Hero AI that employs artificial intelligence to streamline hospital emergency departments, including providing real-time insights into waiting patients and alerts for staff aimed at getting patients seen faster.

“Academic centres have many streams of funding that allow them to implement these technologies,” he said, but community hospitals do not.

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https://www.pressreader.com/canada/o...81560887189255