Guy Chartrand, president of Bruyère Continuing Care, hopes the new 120-bed transitional unit at Greystone Village Retirement will alleviate pressure on the region's acute-care hospitals. (Francis Ferland/CBC)Ottawa and area hospital patients who no longer require acute-care treatment can now go to a 120-bed transitional unit at a new Ottawa retirement home. That is not an easy feat, to say the least," said Guy Chartrand, president of Bruyère Continuing Care, who's leading the project on behalf of all Ottawa hospitals. The Greystone Village Retirement Home, on the former Oblate lands in Old Ottawa East, has recently been retrofitted with nursing stations, showers, hospital beds and other facilities. Many of the patients to be moved to the new unit will be waiting to go home or into long-term care, said Chartrand.

Source: CBC News November 05, 2020 09:56 UTC