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Description

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Eacutelisabeth Bruyegravere Hospital

Completed in 1845 this hospital originally opened on Bruyegravere Street as the Ottawa General Hospital In 1980 the General moved to its Smyth Road location Today Eacutelisabeth Bruyegravere Hospital offers the following programs and services

Care of the Elderly and Rehabilitation
As Ottawas largest single site provider of inpatient rehabilitation Eacutelisabeth Bruyegravere Hospital serves the community with 90 rehabilitation beds The rehabilitation program is designed to maximize the functional ability of patients who have suffered an injury and offers geriatric and stroke rehabilitation

In partnership with the Rehabilitation Network of Ottawa we provide stroke and inpatient geriatric rehabilitation and work in close collaboration with the Regional Geriatric Program of Ottawa

Palliative Care
With 36beds Eacutelisabeth Bruyegravere Hospital is home to Canadas largest academic palliative care and endoflife hospital unit and is Ottawas only palliative care hospital unit

There are two types of admissions in the palliative care program pain and symptom management and endoflife care The inpatient care provides an interdisciplinary approach to physical psychosocial and spiritual suffering We also offer an outpatient service through the Palliative Care Pain and Symptom Management Team

Our Mission
Inspired by our founder Mother Eacutelisabeth Bruyegravere we are a Catholic academic continuing care organization committed to improving the quality of life and independence of our patients residents and clients in the Champlain region

We do this by providing compassionate and quality care through our commitment to advancing teaching education and research We offer care and services in both official languages and we are responsive to the needs of our diverse community

In collaboration with our partners we provide complex continuing care care of the elderly and rehabilitation palliative care longterm care and family medicine

Our Vision
To be the champion of well being for aging Canadians and those requiring continuing care

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History

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1845 Mother Eacutelisabeth Bruyegravere and three Sisters arrive in Ottawa

The Sisters open the first bilingual school in Ontario

The General Hospital opens its doors at Parent and St Patrick Street

1850 Patients are moved to the current Mother House of the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa on Bruyegravere Street

1861 Construction of the Ottawa General Hospital begins on Bruyegravere Street begins

1866 The first patients are admitted to the Ottawa General Hospital

1871 The St Charles Old Age Hospice opens on Cathcart Street a precursor to Reacutesidence Saint Louis

1876 Mother Eacutelisabeth Bruyegravere passes away

1924 SaintVincent House is founded by Sister Marie Auxiliatrice and seven other Sisters

1932 SaintVincent Hospital opens at its current site on Cambridge Street

1954 The official opening of the new wing at SaintVincent Hospital bringing capacity to 516 beds

1959 The official opening of SCOs Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

1966 Reacutesidence SaintLouis officially opens in Orleacuteans and welcomes its first residents from SaintCharles Hospice in Ottawa

1968 The Grey Nuns of the Cross officially change their name to the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa

1980 The Ottawa General Hospital moves to its new site at the Ottawa Health Sciences Centre on Smyth Road

The old Ottawa General site becomes the EacutelisabethBruyegravere Health Centre and opens its doors as a chronic care institution

1983 The Regional Palliative Care Unit opens at EacutelisabethBruyegravere Health Centre

1984 The SaintVincent Day Hospital opens

1988 Villa Marguerite opens at EacutelisabethBruyegravere Health Centre

1991 Construction and renovations begin at Reacutesidence SaintLouis

1993 The SCO Health Service is established bringing together the EacutelisabethBruyegravere Health Centre SaintVincent Hospital Reacutesidence SaintLouis and Villa Marguerite

The Institute of Palliative Care is launched

1994 An affiliation agreement between the SCO Health Service and the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine is signed

1995 The SCO Health Service Mission Statement and Values are formulated

2000 Research is established as a priority and the University of Ottawa Institute on the Health of the Elderly associated with the SCO Health Service the CT Lamont Centre and the University of Ottawa Institute of Palliative Care are created

2002 Consolidation of Complex Continuing Care at SaintVincent Hospital and Rehabilitation at Eacutelisabeth Bruyegravere Health Centre

Construction of new wing and renovation of existing wings begin at SaintVincent Hospital

2003 Transfer of sponsorship of SCO Health Service from the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa to the Catholic Healthcare Corporation of Ontario CHCO

Research is fully integrated and the EacutelisabethBruyegravere Research Institute is founded

2004 The SCO Health Service Mission Statement and Values are revised

The affiliation agreement with the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine is updated

Opening of the new wing at SaintVincent Hospital

2005 The SCO Health Service signs a comprehensive affiliation agreement with the University of Ottawa Faculty of Health Sciencesincluding the School of Nursing the School of Rehabilitation Sciences the School of Human Kinetics and the Program in Health Sciences

2006 SCO Health Service opens the Primrose Family Medicine Centre It adopts family medicine as one of its programs

2007 SCO Health Service recognized as one of seven regional health care providers by the Champlain Local Health Integration Network LHIN

2008 On September 12 2008 SCO Health Service changes its name to Bruyegravere Continuing Care