Our time under the lights
Unprecedented $1.3 billion hospital redevelopment is underway
Royal Columbian Hospital is a leader in critical care, serving more than 1.8 million residents – onethird of all British Columbians.
Now, the hospital is set to make healthcare history, as a $1.3 billion redevelopment positions Royal Columbian to revolutionize critical care in B.C. When the multi-year, multi-phase project is complete, the hospital will be fully transformed and ready to cope with the needs of a fast-growing, dramatically aging and increasingly diverse 21st-century population.
PHASE ONE: MENTAL HEALTH EXPANSION
Phase one construction is underway and includes:
• A new 75-bed mental health and substance use wellness centre with Fraser Health’s first older adult psychiatric unit, a psychiatric high acuity unit as well as new and expanded outpatient clinics
• A new energy centre
• New parking including a 400+ stall underground parkade
• Heliport
• An advanced IT fibre optic and utilities pathway.
PHASE TWO: ACUTE CARE TOWER
By the end of phase two, the hospital will have added 50 per cent more beds. Phase two will include:
• A new acute care tower with:
• More beds for intensive care, cardiac intensive care, medicine and surgical patients, all in single-patient private rooms
• A new, larger Emergency with a satellite medical imaging unit
• Three more operating rooms, three more interventional suites for cardiology, two more interventional suites for diagnostic radiology, and one more MRI all connected to interventional services in the existing Health Care Centre, creating one interventional ‘super floor’
• More maternity beds and a new maternity operating room. Units for moms, dads, children, and newborns will be relocated to the same floor for a more family-centred experience
• A 400+ stall underground parkade, a new main entrance and a rooftop helipad
• New advanced medical equipment and technologies.
PHASE THREE: EXPANDING CAPACITY
Phase three will upgrade and add capacity to areas in the existing Health Care Center and Columbia Tower that support the beds and services added in phase two. This includes:
• Expansion of support service areas including the laboratory, diagnostic services and medical imaging, and the addition of one more MRI
• Expansion of the pediatric unit, the neonatal intensive care unit and outpatient clinics. These units will be physically linked to the maternity unit in the new acute care tower to create a ‘super floor’ dedicated to mothers, dads, and children • Conversion of four-bed patient rooms in Columbia Tower into single or semiprivate rooms.
Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation is working with donors to support the hospital’s redevelopment. For more information or to donate, visit www.rchfoundation.com/critical