Hôpital Montfort (Montfort Hospital) is an academic health science centre affiliated with the University of Ottawa. It delivers short-term primary and secondary health care in French and English. The hospital serves over 1.2 million residents of Eastern Ontario. Montfort is the only hospital in Ottawa administered in French and the only Francophone academic health care institution west of the province of Quebec. Hôpital Montfort opened in 1953. It was secularized in 1970. In the late 1980s it was rebuilt with a large modern section added.