History
During World War II, when Canada provided refuge to the Dutch royal family, then Princess Juliana gave birth to her daughter Princess Margriet in Ottawa at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. The hospital's maternity ward was temporarily declared to be officially part of international territory so that Margriet would inherit only Dutch citizenship from her mother.
The Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus, was established in 1845. It is a modern 456 bed teaching hospital. The University of Ottawa Heart Institute forms part of the civic campus.
The General Campus is composed of the General Hospital, the Ottawa Rehabilitation Centre, and the Eye Institute. The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and a part of the University of Ottawa have buildings in the Campus.
The Ottawa Hospital, Riverside Campus, is a day facility for outpatient care and speciality clinics. It has its own OC Transpo transitway station.
During the 1990s, the provincial government of Mike Harris amalgamated several existing hospitals, the Ottawa Civic, Ottawa General, Grace and Riverside hospitals, to make up The Ottawa Hospital. The Grace was closed, while the Riverside became the Riverside Campus, an out-patient centre. On April 1, 1998, The Ottawa Hospital was officially created.
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