Vernon Jubilee Hospital Patient Care Tower

The primary objective of the VJH Patient Care Tower is to bring together existing programs in a more efficient facility that will enhance patient care now, as well as allow for future expansion.

The new eight-storey tower will be 181,500 square feet - more than double the size of the Wesbild Centre, home of the BC Hockey League's Vernon Vipers. It will include:

new expanded and modernized emergency department
consolidated and centralized new operating rooms
new maternity and pediatrics ward
new intensive care unit
two extra shelled-in floors to build capacity for future patient beds
new expanded and consolidated outpatient (day procedures) department
new and more efficient central sterilization services
new ambulance garage
space vacated in current hospital leaves space for other programs and services.

VJH is one of four service area hospitals within Interior Health's network of health care facilities. It serves approximately 86,000 residents in the areas of Vernon, Armstrong, Enderby, Spallumcheen, Salmon Arm, Revelstoke and Nakusp.

The original structure of the current facility was built in 1947, with newer wings added between 1968 and 1983.

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