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

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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:

1. Parking Garage
2. Support Services Addition
3. James Beach Tower Expansion for Medical/Surgical Inpatient Services
4. Emergency Department
5. ICU and Transitional Care Inpatient Tower

Architect: Parkin Architects


Development application:
https://devapps.ottawa.ca/en/applica...5-0163/details


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[J.OT13]

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

[skyscraperaccount]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

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

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

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by skyscraperaccount

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

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.

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from Google Maps

[J.OT13]

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.

[J.OT13]

Some context of why QCH is looking to expand.

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