The numbers below provide a brief snapshot of Vancouver Coastal Health.

Who we serveWe serve 25% of BC’s population, that's over 1 million people including the residents of Vancouver, Richmond, the North Shore and Coast Garibaldi, Sea-to-Sky, Sunshine Coast, Powell River, Bella Bella and Bella Coola.

Our people

• 22,000 staff
• 2,500 physicians
• 5,000 volunteers

Daily statisticsEvery day we see an average of:

• 914 patients in our emergency departments
• 5 life or threatened organ cases
• 316 surgery patients in our operating rooms that run Monday to Friday
• 175 people in the community for occupational or physical therapy
• 891 home care nursing visits
• 6,240 residential care clients
• 891 assisted living tenants

Annual statisticsEvery year we:

• receive $2.8 billion in funding
• provide 3 million+ patient days of care
• see 308,000+ people in our emergency departments, that's one person every two minutes
• see 640,000+ visits to our clinics
• provide 116,000+ surgeries
• conduct 79,000+ inpatient discharges
• provide 2.3 million+ residential care days
• provide 1.9 million+ home support hours
• provide199,000+ home nursing visits

Learn moreVisit the Service Plan page to find out our specific priorities for the next four years.