Healing Better - St. Paul’s Foundation

At St. Paul's Hospital, we believe that healing starts with being heard.

What is Healing Better?

As we prepare to open the new St. Paul's Hospital on the Jim Pattison Medical Campus in 2027, Healing Better means rethinking care from the inside out—changing the landscape of medicine, one patient at a time.

A whole new campus designed to support Healing Better

To improve privacy and infection control, 100% of inpatient bedrooms will be single-patient with a bathroom and area for a family member to comfortably spend the night, participate in care, and offer 24/7 support.

The new St. Paul's Hospital will have more surgical and interventional suites to improve capacity, and bigger operating rooms—some up to 30% larger than the current hospital's operating rooms.

The person-centered design of the hospital integrates more spaces for holistic health and wellness, with green spaces that both reduce our environmental impact and improve the health and wellness of patients, visitors, and staff.

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) will use a family-centred model of care with single-patient rooms, giving families more space, resources, and privacy. Individual rooms allow new parents to stay with their babies 24/7.

Healing Better through compassionate, patient-centred care

Healing and hope for chronic pain patients.

After years of debilitating chronic pain following a severe illness in 2016, Angelo Marvuglia found life-changing relief through ketamine infusion therapy. Under the care of Dr. May Ong, his pain dropped from near-constant agony to zero. Today, he’s regained his independence, returned to work, and is enjoying everyday life with his children again.

A new era is rising with the new St. Paul’s Hospital on the Jim Pattison Medical Campus, where the entire pain program will be consolidated on one floor. By bringing the pain clinic and related specialties together in one space and equipping the team with advanced technology, the new hospital will offer faster, more coordinated care that supports patients through every step of their pain journey.

Finding freedom again through innovative care

For years, Cynthia’s life revolved around managing fecal incontinence, limiting where she went and what she could do. That changed when she became one of the first patients in BC to receive sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) through a donor‑supported pilot at St. Paul’s Hospital, led by Dr. Vishal Varshney, chair in Pain Management. The treatment dramatically reduced her symptoms, allowing her to return to everyday activities with confidence and freedom.

This first‑in‑BC SNS pilot reflects the future of connected, compassionate care at the new St. Paul’s Hospital on the Jim Pattison Medical Campus — where collaboration, advanced technology, and donor support expand access to life‑changing treatments for patients across British Columbia.

Read Cynthia’s story

Dr. Vishal Varshney, in scrubs, smiles at the camera.

A new heart, and a new beginning.

Four months into her pregnancy, Christine learned she was in heart failure and needed a heart transplant. St. Paul’s Hospital became her lifeline as the only centre in BC performing adult heart transplants. Today, her new heart has given her more time with her daughter, her husband, and the people she loves most.

Christine donated her original heart to research, and it’s now helping scientists better understand heart disease and improve care for future patients. The new Jim Pattison Medical Campus will take this impact even further, with expanded clinical and research facilities that build on Providence’s leadership as home to some of the country’s largest heart, lung, and renal biobanks. With new state‑of‑the‑art research facilities, experts from around the world will be able to study thousands of samples, accelerating discoveries and driving the development of new treatments, vaccines, and therapies.

Fast Facts about the new St. Paul's Hospital

The Healing Better campaign is made possible thanks to the generous support of: