Kelowna General Hospital
| Kelowna General Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Interior Health | |
 View of Kelowna, British Columbia | |
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| Geography | |
| Location |
2268 Pandosy Street Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada |
| Coordinates | 49°52′23″N 119°29′39″W / 49.87306°N 119.49417°WCoordinates: 49°52′23″N 119°29′39″W / 49.87306°N 119.49417°W |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Public Medicare (Canada) (MSP) |
| Hospital type | General, Teaching |
| Affiliated university | UBC Faculty of Medicine |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Helipad | TC LID: CKH9 |
| Beds | 711[1] |
| History | |
| Founded | 1908 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.interiorhealth.ca/health-services.aspx?id=280 |
| Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) is a medical facility located in Kelowna, British Columbia and offers high level medical care in the Central Okanagan. In British Columbia, Kelowna General is the only hospital outside of Lower Mainland or Vancouver Island that performs angioplasty or cardiac surgery.[2]
Interior Health is responsible for the operations of the hospital.
History
Kelowna General Hospital originally opened on August 2, 1908 with 19 beds on the land that was donated by Kelowna Land & Orchard Company. This building remained until 1940 when the a new hospital building was constructed. This building still stands today as the Pandosy Building, although it will be demolished in Summer 2012 to make way for a cardiac clinic. In 1969, the five storey Strathcona building was constructed, followed by the five storey Royal Building in 1992. Construction of the new six storey Centennial Tower began in 2008 and was completed on May 27, 2012.[3]
2007 Hospital Expansion
Plans to expand Kelowna General Hospital were approved in 2007 to support growing population in the region.[4]
- Various facilities upgrade and modernization
- 34,000 square foot Clinical Academic Campus Building, affiliated with the University of British Columbia Medical School.[5]
- Six-storey 187,000 square feet (17,400 m2) Centennial Patient Care Tower with new rooftop helipad and 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2) emergency department is currently being constructed.[6]
- Three-storey 84,470 square feet (7,848 m2) East Pandosy Clinical Support Building [7]
- 139,590 square feet Interior Heart and Surgical Centre (IHSC) will be constructed in the existing patient care tower with 15 operating rooms, allowing heart surgeries to take place in the interior of BC for the first time.[8]
References
- ↑ http://www.med.ubc.ca/education/md_ugrad/clerkship_electives/bc_community_hospitals/Kelowna_General_Hospital.htm
- ↑ Open heart surgery program begins in Interior Health
- ↑ Kelowna General Hospital Marks 100 Years of Health Care and new Centennial Endowment Fund
- ↑ Kelowna General Hospital
- ↑ UBC and Interior Health Clinical Academic Campus
- ↑ Centennial Patient Care Tower
- ↑ Clinical Support Building
- ↑ Interior Heart and Surgical Centre