Two years after opening a tent\u002Dlike structure in the parking lot of its Civic campus to deal with overcrowding, The Ottawa Hospital is building a similar overflow space in the garage at its General campus.
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Like the Civic’s surge space, it will be aimed at improving ambulance offload time, improving patient flow and adding hospital beds. Love said the new space will not open before March but will help build capacity for “future winters”. The Ottawa Hospital and other adult hospitals continue to see increased pressure and long emergency department waits for a number of reasons, including COVID-19.
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