Bruyère Continuing Care is an incredible place to work and to receive care.  What began in 1845 with the establishment of Ottawa’s first hospital by Mother Élisabeth Bruyère and a handful of Sisters has grown today to become one of the largest health care providers in our community. Over that period, our role has evolved and adapted to the ever-changing needs of society to become what we are today – the champion of well-being for aging Canadians and those requiring Continuing Care.

Continuing Care is an essential part of the health care continuum providing programs and services complementary to those offered by acute care facilities and other health care providers. At Bruyère, we offer programs ranging from complex continuing care, long-term care, care of the elderly, rehabilitation, palliative care, family medicine to teaching and research in continuing care.  These programs are designed to ensure that our patients and residents experience safe transitions from one type of care to another and, whenever possible, back into the community or their own homes. 

Bruyère employees work in a unique bilingual environment providing holistic care based on our values of respect, compassion, collaboration, accountability and learning.  Our focus is as much on treating a disease or injury, as on caring for the whole person – body, mind and spirit – by concentrating on the medical, human and spiritual needs of our patients and residents.  Our interprofessional health care teams are dedicated to helping our aging population become and remain as healthy and independent as possible through innovative and compassionate care, research, education and advocacy.

Bruyère Continuing Care offers students the opportunity to advance their clinical skills in continuing care through our affiliation with the University of Ottawa and several other post-secondary schools. This relationship has been further solidified through expansion in the area of research with the establishment of the Élisabeth Bruyère Research Institute, one of only a few centres in Canada dedicated to studying quality of life issues for aging Canadians and improving services in rehabilitation, palliative care and primary care.

I am extremely proud of the commitment, compassion and care provided by the physicians, staff and volunteers at Bruyère Continuing Care as we work together to meet the health care needs of our community.

Jean Bartkowiak
President and Chief Executive Officer

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