The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus is marking a major milestone this year, celebrating 100 years of care for the community.
Jean Teron holds a special connection to the hospital and a piece of its history.
“It’s a long, long history,” said Teron, whose mother, Ida Catherine Elizabeth McDowell, was one of the first graduates from the hospital’s nursing program. McDowell spent her nursing years at the Civic alongside her best friend, Jean Forbes, after whom Teron was named.
Teron also treasures a 100-year-old nursing pin her mother received upon graduating.
“The pin has the date 1924 on it, of course the year the hospital opened,” she said. “Very carefully, on the back of the pin, her name is engraved, and the number 259. So, I expect she was the 259th nurse to come out of the program here.”
For nurse Suzanne Madore, who has spent 35 years at the hospital, …