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The four-phase project includes a new nine-floor patient tower that will add 113 new beds to the hospital, more operating rooms, an expanded emergency department, and improved outpatient services in a redeveloped second tower.
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The eight-year-long project’s estimated cost ballooned from $375 million to $860.8 million due to changes and additions to the plan over the past four years.
Health Minister Adrian Dix said the expansion is long overdue and the cost is appropriate.
“This hospital was built in 1964, the year I was born,” he said. “Here in Richmond, they deserve a hospital built for the 21st century and that’s what they’re going to get.”
The new pavilion will be a six-storey building with 83 beds, with all patient rooms, except for one, designed for a single-occupancy patient configuration to provide greater comfort and privacy for patients and their families.
Other components of the pavilion include a maternity and labour unit, neonatal intensive care unit, medical inpatient unit with negative pressure rooms and outbreak zones to isolate infectious diseases, and inpatient mental health and substance use unit with a secured outdoor patio.
The first phase of the redevelopment will also provide the hospital with an expanded emergency department, and operating and procedure rooms.
Artistic rendering of the new replacement Keith and Betty Beedie Pavilion (first phase) at Burnaby Hospital. (Fraser Health)
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B.C. hospitals that diverted surgical beds and resources to cope with a third wave of COVID-19 will be resuming regular operations by June 7, and patients who had their surgeries cancelled can expect those procedures to be rescheduled soon, according to Health Minister Adrian Dix.
In late April, as the province braced for a surge in COVID cases, nine hospitals in the Lower Mainland postponed non-urgent surgeries. As of May 23, 2,153 patients are waiting for their procedures to get rescheduled.
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VANCOUVER The provincial government has released a tentative timeline for when non-urgent scheduled surgeries will resume in British Columbia. These surgeries will resume over a three-week period, which began this week and continues through the week of June 7. The timelines break down what will happen in Lower Mainland hospitals in both the Vancouver Coastal and Fraser health regions. Health Minister Adrian Dix said some of these operating rooms were repurposed at the height of the third wave, used to increase the number of intensive care beds available. In other cases, staff involved in non-urgent scheduled surgeries were moved to other departments to help with the fight against COVID-19. But things will now be getting back to normal at the nine hospitals.