Replacing the aging Civic hospital on Carling Avenue, it is slated to be built on 50 acres of land at the eastern end of the Central Experimental Farm.
The new Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital is one step closer to construction with the release of a request for proposals issued by Infrastructure Ontario on Tuesday.
The request for proposals seeks a design and development team to build the $2-billion-plus hospital, which is expected to open in 2028.
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Hospital president and CEO Cameron Love called the step a milestone “as we work to bring the future of health care to Ottawa and the more than a million people we care for.”
The 641-bed hospital, including 100 critical care beds, replaces the aging Civic hospital. Like many hospitals, especially older ones, the Civic has been overburdened during the COVID-19 pandemic and the current severe respiratory illness season. During the pandemic, a temporary unit was built in its parking lot to add space and take pressure off the emergency department.
Among other things, the new hospital will feature single rooms and bathrooms for each patient to improve infection control and one of the most advanced trauma centres in Eastern Ontario with a rooftop helipad to get patients looked after as quickly as possible.
Its construction on 50 acres at the eastern end of the Central Experimental Farm — especially the inclusion of a multi-level parking garage on what was formerly parkland — has been controversial among greenspace advocates, neighbours concerned about traffic and others.
