Artist's concept of the Clinical Support Building

Interior Heart and Surgical Centre

On September 24, 2007, Premier Gordon Campbell publicly announced the Interior's first cardiac revascularization centre to be built at Kelowna General Hospital.

The new Interior Heart and Surgical Centre will be the province's fifth cardiac critical care centre. It will be a critical component of the provincial cardiac services program. 

Interior Health is phasing in the cardiac program to ensure cardiac services are delivered at the earliest possible date while the infrastructure for a long-term permanent cardiac program is built.

• The first phase includes renovating part of the existing Kelowna General Hospital to allow percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI, or angioplasties) to be performed. The first procedure was successfully completed on November 16, 2009.
• The second phase will see the renovation of existing operating rooms at KGH to support the introduction of open heart surgery by 2012.
• The third phase will be the construction of the new Interior Heart and Surgical Centre. A business case for the new building is currently in development. It is expected to include a program for inpatient care and diagnostics, and a complete revascularization program, including open heart surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention as well as a new in-patient surgical suite and support services.