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Ottawa Citizen
03-08-2025
- Health
- Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa Hospital satellite clinic tends to Ironman athletes
Those at an Ottawa Hospital satellite clinic worked hard Sunday to take pressure off hospital emergency rooms across the city as thousands of Ironman athletes pushed themselves to the limit. Article content Approximately 3,000 registered athletes swam, biked and ran across Ottawa and Gatineau at the first-ever Ironman event in the National Capital Region. Article content Article content The clinic, located near the finish line on Sussex Drive next to the National Art Gallery, was roughly 4,000 square feet, divided into wards, as well as areas for critical and monitored care. Article content Article content Six medical teams and 300 volunteers staffed the facility through the day, providing treatment for dehydration, injuries and heat-related issues. There were also teams scattered across the Ironman course to provide on-site medical services. Article content Article content First responders were stationed at the main medical tent and along the course to transfer patients. Article content Jackie Mace, captain of the main medical tent, said the clinic was a fully-equipped intensive care unit with cardiac monitors, AEDs, cardiac medication and equipment to intubate patients. Article content There were also oxygen tanks and air conditioning to cool athletes down after a heat-related injury, such as heat stroke and heat exhaustion. Article content The goal was to divert patients from going to the hospital, she said. Usually, around 10 per cent of race participants will come into the tent for medical attention. Article content Article content 'The patient will come in really, really sick, but the minute that you get their core temperatures down to a much more normal level, they rebound really quickly. Article content 'They can come in looking like terrible near death, and an hour or two later, they're having conversation with you and are ready to go home. So that's why, this way, we avoid having all these patients from going to the hospital.' Article content Article content For the past decade, The Ottawa Hospital has led medical tent and on-course medical services for Ottawa Race Weekend. Article content Mace said the hospital has been streamlining satellite clinic operations for the past 15 years. Article content 'When we started 15 years ago, it was not this streamlined. We were kind of running by the seat of our pants. Now we really know what we're doing, and we know what we need, and so basically, we recruit volunteers for what we need.
CTV News
23-05-2025
- Sport
- CTV News
What's happening in Ottawa this weekend: May 23-25
Runners make their way towards the National War Memorial at the start of the marathon of the Ottawa Race Weekend in Ottawa, on Sunday, May 26, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
CBC
23-05-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Here are the 2025 Ottawa Race Weekend road closures
Social Sharing Several major Ottawa roads will be closed this weekend to make way for participants in the Ottawa Race Weekend. The kids', 2K, 5K and 10K races will take place Saturday, followed by the half marathon and marathon Sunday. Organizers expect over 36,500 runners and walkers to participate over the two days. Road closures begin Saturday at 11:00 a.m. with Laurier Avenue W. between Metcalfe and Nicholas streets, and Elgin Street northbound between Lisgar and Slater streets. Saturday's closures mostly affect Centretown and extend south along the Rideau Canal to Dows Lake. Other downtown closures including parts of Elgin, O'Connor and Wellington streets. Some closures will remain in effect until 9 p.m. Saturday. Sunday's closures start earlier with some streets around Ottawa city hall shutting down to traffic starting at 5 a.m. By 9 a.m. the closures will stretch as far as Island Park Drive, Manor Park and Hog's Back Park before receding to roads along the Rideau Canal by 1:30 p.m. Most closures on Sunday will be lifted by 3 p.m. A full list of road closures over the weekend is available on the Ottawa Race Weekend website. Here are some other events that could affect traffic in the coming days: The Great Glebe Garage Sale is happens Saturday across the central Ottawa neighbourhood, making it tougher to drive or bus through until late afternoon. Odawa Native Friendship Centre's 50th Anniversary Powwow is going on all weekend at the centre near St. Laurent Boulavard and McArthur Avenue. The King and Queen visit Ottawa on Monday and Tuesday. Watch for more road closures related to their schedule.
CTV News
21-05-2025
- Business
- CTV News
Meet the group who raised $2M for Parkinson's research through Ottawa Race Weekend
Partners Investing in Parkinson's Research (PIPR) at Ottawa Race Weekend 2024. Since 2009, the group has raised over $2 million for The Ottawa Hospital. (PIPR/Provided)
Ottawa Citizen
13-05-2025
- Health
- Ottawa Citizen
Dr. Jon Hooper carries on late wife's legacy at Ottawa Race Weekend
Article content As he manages his grief, Dr. Jon Hooper has the benefit of a persistent voice in his head, which steers him away from mournful lethargy or self-pity. Article content Article content It belongs to his wife Sindy, an ebullient triathlete and hospital administrator who died in September 2024 after living with pancreatic cancer for 11 years. Article content 'Whenever I start to feel sorry for myself, I can hear her say, 'Hey, come on, get up, let's do something, let's take advantage of this day,'' says Hooper, 66, an anaesthesiologist and critical care physician. Article content Article content Hooper's latest initiative centres on advancing his wife's remarkable fundraising legacy. In the past 10 years at Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend, Sindy Hooper raised $513,644 for pancreatic cancer research by leading the Make Every Moment Count (MEMC) team. Article content With the help of Sindy's former teammates, Hooper has ensured that work will continue: this year's team has already raised more than $66,000 for cancer research. Article content 'Everyone just agreed Sindy would want us to do this,' he says. Article content Article content Janet McKeage, chair of the Ottawa Hospital Foundation's board of directors, will be running the full marathon in memory of Sindy Hooper as a member of MEMC crew. Friends for more than two decades, the two met playing soccer, then took up distance running together. Article content 'What I've learned is it's way more fun training with Sindy than not training with her,' says McKeage. 'Sometimes I ask myself, 'Why am I doing this?' then I think about everything she went through and just kept going.' Article content Article content Dr. Hooper, an accomplished triathlete, won't be running on race weekend because he'll again be working as a volunteer. He has served as medical director for Ottawa Race Weekend for more than three decades. Article content 'It's a nice way of giving back,' says Hooper, who last fall received the distinguished service award from Ontario's anesthesiologists. Article content During his career, Hooper took part in more than a dozen humanitarian missions to countries such as Ghana, Peru and Bangladesh, and spent a year providing health care in rural Ethiopia. Article content Article content He retired from The Ottawa Hospital to be with his wife when her cancer spread, but returned to work because he felt so lost after her death. His intense grieving period was complicated by retinal tear surgery, which forced him to spend two months flat on his back. Article content He knew returning to work would not relieve his heartbreak, but it did bring a welcome sense of normalcy. Hooper still walks around his Kanata home talking to Sindy — and turns when there's no answer.
