Building health, transforming care through redevelopment

The new acute care Paul Myers Tower at Lions Gate Hospital (LGH) is expected to be complete in fall 2024, accepting patients in March 2025. The tower will be six floors with advanced technologies to improve care and more green spaces for healing and wellness. Designed in collaboration with the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, there will be areas for cultural ceremonies including a “House of Elders” and a sacred space, with a rooftop garden open to patients, families and staff.

The new tower will include 108 private patient rooms, eight state-of-the-art operating rooms, 39 pre-operative and post-operative spaces, a medical reprocessing department and new outpatient clinic spaces. 

The materials used for the new Paul Myers Tower will cut down carbon pollution by 14 per cent compared to an average Canadian building, equal to 1,266 tonnes of carbon emissions, or the same as planting 20,000 trees.

VCH is also making investments at LGH through new buildings, renovations and improvements to existing facilities and in new technology and medical equipment.

Richmond Hospital (RH) is building a nine-floor acute care tower, the Yurkovich Family Pavilion, with a bigger emergency department and short-stay pediatrics, more operating and procedure rooms, an intensive care unit; a fully equipped medical imaging department; and a pharmacy. 

Other hospital improvements include:  

• Constructing a new UBC Faculty of Medicine Medical Education Centre
• Constructing an interim Psychiatric Assessment Unit at Richmond Hospital
   

More people in Richmond and the surrounding areas will have access to high-quality long-term care as Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) prepares to build a new care home with more than 150 beds. Richmond Lions Manor-Fentiman will be a new eight-storey campus of care and will offer a total of 144 long-term care beds and 14 hospice beds. 

In May 2021, VCH completed Phase 1 of the VGH Operating Room Renewal Project, which includes 16 new operating rooms and a 40-bay pre-operative and post recovery area. During Phase 2, VCH will open 15 new operating rooms and 38 new perioperative patient bays, resulting in 32 new operating rooms in the Phil and Jennie Gaglardi Surgical Centre.

• Finalized detailed design
• Finalized interior design mock-ups – colours and finishing materials
• PACU Swing Space is ready for surge use now and will be ready for space support during ICU Enabling project
• VGH Helipad undergoing construction and infrastructure upgrades
• New 3T MRI equipment at VGH and the benefits of the latest technology
• A food services project will be complete in Spring 2024, resulting in a new inpatient food services delivery model
   

Sechelt I shíshálh Hospital’s Emergency Department (ED) will be upgraded to enhance emergency health-care services on the Sunshine Coast. These upgrades will improve patient care, safety and privacy, as well as better support Indigenous patients accessing emergency care at the Sechelt I shíshálh Hospital.  

Projected to be complete in 2024, the upgraded ED will feature a new dedicated mental health assessment room and triage area for increased privacy, and culturally safe spaces for Indigenous patients and families. 
 

People in the Sea to Sky region will soon benefit from a new state-of-the-art computed tomography (CT) scanner at Squamish General Hospital (SGH). A CT scanner is diagnostic equipment that combines X-ray with advanced computer-processing technology to create accurate, detailed images of internal structures and organs.

The new CT scanner, which is expected to be available by 2025, will help provide timely diagnostic imaging that leads to higher-quality care, better patient outcomes and improved health-care delivery.