What is Heart Month

Heart Month is an opportunity for individuals, groups, and businesses to take the lead in raising funds and awareness for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. It's giving that goes straight to the heart of care in your community.

You can be a part of Heart Month in a number of ways:

By supporting the Heart Institute during February is Heart Month and taking part in the activities we have prepared for you, you will have a big impact on changing lives - and saving lives - in our community.

PLUS throughout the month, our Corporate Match Champions will match some of the donations we receive which could mean that your Heart Month donation will be doubled!

Thanks in large part to support like yours, the University of Ottawa Heart Institute’s new Critical Care Tower opened in April. The new facility includes the new da Vinci® surgical system, six operating rooms, and nine catheterization/electrophysiology labs all outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment that is 100% donor funded.

The next exciting step in this journey will be the renovations to several floors of the original building on Ruskin Street. With the addition of escalators and a central registration desk, the experience for patients and their families will be significantly enhanced with better access and navigation tools.

These additions and renovations will ensure our continued capacity to shape cardiovascular care, research and education well into the future.

Healthcare institutions like the Heart Institute do not receive funding from any level of government for the purchase of critical and highly specialized equipment. This much needed equipment is purchased with support like yours which will make a big impact on changing lives and saving lives in our community.





YOUR IMPACT

Your support will have a lasting impact on people in our community - changing and saving lives. Click on the names below to hear about just some of the lives that have been touched by community support like yours:

Mike Beale was one of the first patients to undergo a bypass as part of the da Vinci Robot Surgery Program

Kevin Lamorie suffered a STEMI at his home on the lake in Cobden and was saved by the Heart Institute’s STEMI program

Having inherited genetic high cholesterol from her dad, Nancy Hansen always knew she would need the Heart Institute eventually but she and her family are immeasurably grateful for the care she received when that time came.

An active local woman, Colleen Zebchuk was shocked to learn that she was battling endocarditis.

John Bassi is a grateful patient and donor with a new lease on life.

See last year's Heart Month below.