Largest investments ever in new hospitals and health facilities
Access to emergency health services has been substantially improved in many hospitals. We delivered on our commitments to build the new 300-bed Abbotsford Regional Hospital & Cancer Centre, the new Northern Medical School and expanded Prince George Regional Hospital. We built the new Outpatient Hospital at Vancouver General and completed major expansions at East Kootenay Regional Hospital in Cranbrook; Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital in Trail; Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops; Nanaimo Regional General Hospital; and Prince Rupert Regional Hospital.
The BC Liberal Government has launched the largest health capital plan in the province’s history.
A new critical care tower at Surrey Memorial Hospital; a new Surrey Outpatient Hospital; a new Royal Jubilee Hospital and a new emergency department in Victoria General Hospital are all under construction today. We will dramatically improve Kelowna General Hospital with a new Patient Care Tower, a new Cardiac Care Centre and a new medical school. The new BC Children’s Hospital will be another major addition to the healthcare improvements we will provide to British Columbians.
We will build the new Patient Care Tower at Vernon Jubilee Hospital; the new Fort St. John Hospital and Residential Care Project; and the new Northern Cancer Centre in Prince George. More will be done. The North Island and Metro Vancouver still await the important regional healthcare decisions that must be made this year.
There is nothing more traumatic for a family than having a child who is seriously ill or in need of medical attention. For families living in rural and remote communities it is especially hard. They have to travel long distances to get their child to the hospital and they also have to cope with additional expenses in travel and accommodation costs.
A BC Liberal Government will create a new program to provide new travel and accommodation assistance to families who must travel long distances to be with their children when they are receiving care. The new $13 million BC Family Residence program will be launched this summer to provide those families with new travel and accommodation support, starting at BC Children’s Hospital and expanding in the years ahead.
