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Dental program that provides free preventive, routine, and emergency dental services for children and youth from low-income families

The program includes

• regular visits to a licensed dental provider
• covers the costs of treatment
• check-ups
• cleaning
• fillings
• x-rays
• scaling and urgent
• emergency dental care

COVID-19 (August 2, 2022): Most primary care appointments will be done in person, with some options for telephone or video visits. Call to make an appointment.

Health centre focused on family and community health

• general practice by appointment
• medical same day appointments for registered clients only
• obstetrics for low-risk pregnancies
• prenatal and postnatal support
• nutrition counselling
• harm reduction services
• options counselling for unplanned pregnancies
• referrals to specialists for registered clients only
• chiropody
• community-based diabetes education
• health education and support on issues like stress reduction, healthy weight, smoking cessation
• health education and support programs and services for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit and questioning community members

Homeless Initiative

• assistance to obtain a health card, ID and other practical supports
• anonymous human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing and counselling
• needle exchange program
• social services support, including showers
• nursing outreach

Regular and emergency dental care

• limited emergency dental care and denture benefits may be available to adults and seniors with low income

Emergency dental services

• provides emergency care for patients whose dentist is unavailable or for those who do not have a regular dentist
• a different dentist is on call each day
• callers will be given the phone number of the dentist on call that day and must call the office directly to book an appointment

Emergency room care

• doctors, nurses, and other health professionals assess and treat life-threatening injuries or severe illness to patients who are unable to wait to be seen by their family physician

Provides specialized dental services to children and youth presenting with conditions requiring treatments in a hospital setting

• offered in both the outpatient clinic and the operating room.

Acute-care hospital

Regional referral centre for:

• The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre
• The Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre
• high-risk pregnancies
• hemophilia (Ottawa Regional Adult Bleeding Disorders Program)
• acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (physician referral needed)
• patients drug information (TOH's Drug Information Centre)
• Centre for the Treatment of Eating Disorders (physician referral needed)
• hyperbaric medicine (physician referral needed)

Special concentrations include:

• emergency department
• bone marrow transplant
• thoracic surgery
• ophthalmology (University of Ottawa Eye Institute) (physician/optometrist referral needed)
• pain management (physician referral needed)
• emergency mental health services
• total joint replacement (physician referral needed)
• nephrology (physician referral needed)
• cystic fibrosis (physician referral needed)
• respiratory rehabilitation services (physician referral needed)
• tropical medicine and international health (physician referral needed for tropical disease and post-travel consultations)
• Ottawa Blood Disease Centre

Emergency room care

• doctors, nurses, and other health professionals assess and treat life-threatening injuries or severe illness to patients who are unable to wait to be seen by their family physician

Emergency room care

• doctors, nurses, and other health professionals assess and treat life-threatening injuries or severe illnesses

Academic hospital affiliated with University of Ottawa

• delivers short-term primary and secondary health care in French and English
• offers numerous services in its various departments and units
• emergency
• endoscopy
• family birthing Centre
• geriatric-in patient
• intensive care
• medical imaging
• medical units
• mental health
• palliative care
• pneumology
• pulmonary function laboratory
• surgery
• telemedicine
• therapeutic

Regular and emergency dental care

• limited emergency dental care and denture benefits may be available to adults and seniors with low income

Paramedics

• deliver medical treatment for life-threatening medical emergencies including heart attacks, strokes, respiratory and traumatic injuries
• a list of locations for the Paramedic Public Access Defibrillator Program can be found online

Medical care team focused on family and community health

• family Practice
• walk-ins
• acute episodic urgent care
• gynecology & obstetrics
• pediatrics
• internal medicine

Regular and emergency dental care

• limited emergency dental care and denture benefits may be available to adults and seniors with low income

Emergency room care

• doctors, nurses, and other health professionals assess and treat life-threatening injuries or severe illness

264-bed acute care facility

Care through inpatient and outreach programs, clinics and partnerships with other hospitals and community organizations

Cornerstone Programs:

• 24-hour emergency services for children and adults
• medical and surgical services
• mental health services
• geriatric services
• rehabilitation services
• family-centred childbirth centre

The Irving Greenberg Family Cancer Centre:

• Satellite cancer clinic of The Ottawa Hospital Regional Cancer Program

Dialysis Unit part of the Regional Nephrology Program through The Ottawa Hospital

Walk-in medical clinic

• full spectrum of medical and minor surgical care
• staffed with emergency physicians and registered nurses
• on-site laboratory, x-ray and ultrasound services for full diagnostic
• on-site pharmacy facility
• treats undisplaced fractures and lacerations
• removal of foreign bodies and other procedures
• persons with critical issues are stabilized and transferred to a local hospital
• does not accept ambulances

Medical care team focused on family and community health.

• The team includes family doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists and mental health team workers

Services include:

• blood lab
• dental services
• dietitian
• flu shots
• low-risk obstetrics care
• mental health
• physio/massage therapy
• travel medicine
• uninsured services
• urgent care
• wellness workshops
• x-ray

Emergency department

• physicians available

COVID-19: (20 September 2021) Now offering a Virtual Physiotherapy Service for appropriate patients, and have continued limited in person visits as well, in compliance with Provincial Directives. Contact them for further information, or to arrange an appointment.

In-patient and out-patient physiotherapy services

• orthopaedic conditions
• therapeutic services
• restoring function
• preventing disability
• neurological conditions
• trauma injuries
• sports injuries
• vestibular
• concussion
• prenatal and postpartum
• arthritis related pain/dysfunction
• external pelvic floor
• acupuncture
• dry needling
• manual therapy
• workplace injuries
• assistive devices assessment for walkers
• out patient day hospital program for seniors and general rehabilitation

COVID-19 (29 April 2020) Special precautions in place. For more detailed information please visit their website.

Emergency room care

COVID-19 (28 Jun 2021) Surgery has re-started at WDMH. Patients who are affected will be contacted. Outpatient clinics and diagnostic testing continue.

The Emergency Department is open and ready to care for patients with serious health concerns.

For more detailed information please visit their website.

General acute care hospital

• emergency
• childbirth centre
• diagnostic imaging including digital mammography and CT(Computerized Tomography) scans
• inpatient medical and surgical services
• day surgery services
• outpatient clinics

Hub site for cancer care, dialysis and cataract surgery and offer specialty clinics with visiting specialists from Ottawa hospitals

Leads the Centre of Excellence for Rural Health and Education, a collaborative that brings together the hospital, local physicians, long-term care, and health and community services

Emergency room care

Hospital

• 24-hour emergency
• diagnostics
• out-patient care/clinics
• 18 in-patient beds (acute and chronic care)
• four interim long-term care beds
• eight convalescent care beds
• 10 surgical beds
• orthopedic, endoscopic and general surgery
• health education and wellness