Our Mission
Delivering excellence in specialized mental health care, advocacy, research and education.
Our Vision
Mental health and well being for all.
The Royal is one of Canada’s foremost mental health care and academic health science centres, internationally recognized as a leader in mental health research. Our mandate is simple and clear: to get more people living with mental illness into remission faster.
The Royal combines the delivery of specialized mental health care, advocacy, research and education to transform the lives of people with complex and treatment resistant mental illness.
The Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health raises funds to support the Royal Ottawa Heath Care Group in its continuing efforts to provide the highest quality of patient care possible and its leading edge research.
At The Royal we are transforming the way we treat mental illness.
“The most important thing is how we all look at people who have mental illness. You can’t define people by their illness. It’s really important to look at people as people, not as defined by their symptoms but by their strengths.”
— Dr. Alison Freeland, Associate Chief of Psychiatry