Kelowna General Hospital Patient Care Tower

The KGH Patient Care Tower will consolidate, expand and modernize outpatient services and programs currently dispersed throughout KGH into one facility.

The new six-storey tower will be 360,000 square feet. Taken together with the new UBC Medical School Clinical Academic Campus, it will be equivalent to the combined size of Kelowna's Home Depot, Wal-Mart and RONA stores. It will include:

new expanded emergency department quadruple the size of the current one
consolidated and centralized new operating rooms
building capacity with two additional shelled-in floors
new renal dialysis department
new rooftop heli-pad
concentration of day procedures in one large, new comfortable area
full integration with existing hospital
space vacated in current hospital leaves space for other programs and services.

KGH is the Central Okanagan's primary acute care health facility and one of two Interior Health tertiary referral hospitals that offer high-level, specialty medical care. It is the only hospital that provides full, specialty surgical programs such as neurosurgery, vascular surgery, advanced plastic surgery and thoracicy surgery.

The original hospital opened on August 2, 1908 with 19 beds. Many buildings have been added in the century since it was founded, although the last major expansion took place in 1992. Click here for a current update on activities at the KGH site.

Hear what doctors and nurses have to say about the new Patient Care Tower.