Montfort Hospital (French: Hôpital Montfort), commonly shortened to Montfort in both languages, is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Ottawa. It delivers short-term primary and secondary health care in both French and English. The hospital serves over 1.2 million residents of Eastern Ontario, and the Gatineau region of Quebec. Montfort is the only hospital in Ottawa administered in French and the only Francophone academic health care institution west of the province of Quebec. Montfort opened in 1953. It was secularized in 1970. It expanded in 1992, and again in 2010.