Ottawa businesspeople Kathleen Grimes and her husband Ersin Ozerdinc have donated $500,000 to the Montfort Hospital\u2019s Mental Health Emergency Zone, the Montfort Foundation announced this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a family, we have experienced Montfort\u2019s services firsthand and we share our positive experiences with the expertise of Montfort\u2019s psychiatric services with those around us. Montfort\u2019s reputation in mental health is increasingly recognized in Ottawa and beyond,\u201d said Grimes and Ozerdinc, owners of Site Preparation Limited, in a news release Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to the release, Montfort receives twice as many mental health emergencies compared to other hospitals in Ottawa and throughout the province. The Mental Health Emergency Zone, which opened in November 2024, offers patients a safe space to recover more quickly.<\/p>\n
Kristine Levesque, deputy chief of staff and chief of psychiatry at Montfort, said the space is \u201cmore welcoming than a typical emergency room. It was specially created to reduce stress, facilitate the relationship between the care team and patients, and contribute to their recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grimes recently visited with her son, Elgin Ozerdinc.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is impressive to see the level of attention that has been paid to the technical elements of the new physical spaces, such as door alarms, double doors, security cameras, and the observation console,\u201d Grimes said in the release. \u201cThese distinctive features make the new Mental Health Emergency Zone unique and exemplary in its very essence.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mental Health Emergency Zone was able to open faster than expected, following the completion of a $2-million renovation project that was expected to last 18 months but was completed in 18 weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe support of donors like the Ozerdinc-Grimes Family demonstrates that major initiatives can be accomplished solely through philanthropy \u2014 a powerful testimony to our community\u2019s engagement, resilience and dedication to mental health. It also reinforces the vital role of philanthropy in advancing care, education, and research,\u201d said Dominic Giroux, president and CEO of Montfort, in the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa businesspeople Kathleen Grimes and her husband Ersin Ozerdinc have donated $500,000 to the Montfort Hospital\u2019s Mental Health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-352481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}