Construction Projects

• Ministry of Health
• Interior Health
• Thompson Regional Hospital District 
• Royal Inland Hospital Foundation
• Tk’emlups te Secwépemc
• Secwépemc Health Caucus
• Two Rivers Métis Society
• EllisDon
   

• Budget: $417 million
• Construction began: 2018
• Open to patients: July 2022
• Scope: A new nine-storey hospital tower that will modernize the Royal Inland Hospital campus, with a new main entrance, atrium and patient registration area and with private, single-patient rooms throughout. The tower will be home to mental health and substance use units for children and adults, new operating rooms, new labour and delivery rooms and a neo natal intensive care unit. There are inpatient units for neuroscience trauma and stroke as well as a new rehab unit. A rooftop helipad will make patient transfers quicker. 
   

• Level 1
• Level 2
• Level 3
• Level 6
• Level 7
• Level 8

• Budget: $736,000
• Completed: 2021
• One of the smallest hospitals in B.C. that features its own MDR (Medical Device Reprocessing) unit, the Lillooet Hospital and Health Centre is home to a newly designed space and state-of-the-art equipment that modernized the hospital’s MDR, and enhanced patient safety and working conditions. 
   

• Ministry of Health
• Interior Health
• Cariboo Chilcotin Regional Hospital District
• Williams Lake First Nation
• Secwépemc Nation 
• Tsilhqot’in Nation
• Dãkelh Dené Nation
• Métis Nation
   

• Budget: $217 million
• Current phase: Design
• Scope: A new three storey addition will include Mental Health and Substance Use spaces, a Maternal Care and Women’s Health unit, new inpatient units, a new emergency department as well as a new main entrance, patient registration area and a cultural and interfaith space. 
   

• Ministry of Health
• Interior Health
• West Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital District. 
• KBRH Health Foundation
• Circle of Indigenous Nations Society
• Ktunaxa Nation

• Budget: Pharmacy/Ambulatory Care: $38.8 million; Emergency Department: $19.05 million
• Construction began: 2018
• Open to patients: Emergency department: Sept. 2020; ambulatory care: Sept. 2021
• Scope: A new emergency department with enhanced care spaces, and a new day-procedure unit are both open in the new addition. A link connects the addition to the existing hospital where renovations are underway in the pharmacy, oncology and physiotherapy departments as well as the cast clinic. A newly renovated health information management area is also open. 
   

• Ministry of Health
• Interior Health
• Okanagan Similkameen Regional Hospital District
• South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation
• Penticton Indian Band
• Ooknakane Friendship Society
   

• Budget: $312.5 million
• Construction began: 2016
• Open to patients: April 29, 2019
• The David E. Kampe Tower features private, single-patient rooms, a new day surgery area and operating rooms, a rooftop heliport, space for the UBC Faculty of Medicine and a parkade with 480 stalls. Once the tower opened construction began on phase two renovations to the PRH emergency department, pharmacy and material stores. The renovation to the emergency department will significantly increase space, growing by about three times, with enhanced patient privacy and plenty of space for both patients and caregivers.
   

• Interior Health
• Shuswap Hospital Foundation
   

• Budget: $4.4 million
• Current phase: Design
• A new mammography and breast health program will see new diagnostic tests performed at SLGH, allowing patients to avoid travel to Vernon or Kamloops. A new CT Scanner, used as a diagnostic tool, will have the latest in technology and will provide shorter tests in some instances. 
   

• Interior Health
• North Okanagan Columbia Shuswap Regional Hospital District
   

• Budget: Generator upgrade: $4.95 million; elevator modernization: $280,000
• Completed: 2021
   

A new Urgent and Primary Care Centre (UPCC) opened Dec. 8 in Cranbrook͛s Baker Street Mall, Unit 230, 1311 2nd St.

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Video: Ktunaxa Nation drummers open Cranbrook UPCC

The Numa Kakin' drum group from the Ktunaxa Nation helped to open the new Cranbrook Urgent and Primary Care Centre in December 2021. The centre is open for patients needing urgent care, who don't need to attend the emergency department.

• East Kootenay Regional Hospital – Cranbrook ($3.5 million budget)
• Shuswap Lake General Hospital – Salmon Arm ($2.5 million)
• Royal Inland Hospital – Kamloops ($2.8 million)
• Kootenay Lake Hospital – Nelson ($2.2 million)
• Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital – Trail (within larger project budget)
• Penticton Regional Hospital – Penticton (within larger project budget)