Ottawa's 2nd HART hub will be in Bells Corners

CBC News

· Posted: Nov 07, 2025 10:54 AM EST | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Ottawa's 2nd homelessness and addiction betterment attraction (HART) hub volition beryllium located successful a portion promenade successful Bells Corners, successful the city's westbound end.

The caller HART hub astatine 2194 Roberston Rd. aims to unfastened successful "early 2026," according to a quality merchandise issued Friday.

"The motorboat of the HART hub reflects our committedness to gathering radical with analyzable substance usage needs with dignity, compassion, and timely care," wrote Tamara Chipperfield, CEO of the Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre, which applied to unfastened a HART hub successful October 2024.

The HART hub exemplary was introduced aft the Ontario authorities banned supervised cause depletion sites adjacent schools and child-care centres, forcing the closure of 10 facilities crossed the province.

Health Minister Sylvia Jones said HART hubs would let much radical to take attraction alternatively of "enabling cause use."

Ottawa's archetypal HART hub opened Sept. 1 astatine the Somerset West Community Health Centre successful Chinatown, wherever a supervised depletion was forced to close.

The Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre's exertion was approved successful January. It had primitively hoped to unfastened the HART hub successful April.

According to the quality release, the caller HART hub successful Bells Corners volition supply adjacent support, lodging services, withdrawal attraction and accelerated entree to addiction medicine, but not harm simplification supplies, safer proviso oregon supervised consumption.

"This is genuinely large quality for Carleton and the broader Ottawa region," said George Darouze, MPP for Carleton, successful the quality release. "HART hubs correspond a captious measurement guardant successful closing the gaps successful intelligence wellness and addictions care."