The new St. Paul’s Hospital and medical campus
We’re bringing the future of health care to life
Our visionary medical campus will be equipped for today’s complex health care needs and help us build the health care of tomorrow.
We’re setting a new standard for medical care in BC, and shaping the future of medicine in Canada. This is going to change everything.
The Jim Pattison Medical Campus
The Jim Pattison Medical Campus is currently the largest, and most ambitious, health care capital project in Western Canada. It’s unrivalled in terms of scope, opportunity, and potential impact.
Sitting on 18 acres just east of Vancouver’s downtown core, the Jim Pattison Medical Campus will be home to the new St. Paul’s Hospital – a 1.2 million square foot acute care hospital (that’s almost twice the size of the current one). It will be connected by sky bridge to the over 400,000 square foot Clinical Support and Research Centre (CSRC), a world-class research facility.
This first-in-Canada campus – along the lines of Johns Hopkins and the Cleveland Clinic – will drive clinical care and research to advance the health of people across BC and beyond.
About the size of eight city blocks, it is the cornerstone of a health and technology renaissance underway in Vancouver’s False Creek Flats. The brightest and most promising life sciences companies are already clustering around the new hospital site.
Beyond its role as a medical and research hub, the campus will create jobs, draw highly skilled talent, attract investment to BC, and foster neighbourhood renewal.
This is a place that will improve lives well beyond health care. And you can play an essential role.
Purpose Built, People First
Health care is deeply personal, which is why every decision about the new St. Paul’s hospital and medical campus is made with our diverse patient population in mind.
The new St. Paul’s Hospital’s location is on Station Street in Vancouver’s False Creek Flats neighbourhood. When the doors open in 2027, it will lead the way in the delivery of BC’s people-first model of health care.
We will transform the patient experience, offering the right care in the right place at the right time. This is where the heart and soul of St. Paul’s – a team of talented, tenacious people – will continue to do what they do best: provide innovative, compassionate care to patients and their families.
We’re reimagining care pathways so you and your loved ones get the care you need no matter where you live.
We’re making each touch point within the system more holistic to put the emphasis where it belongs: on wellness and sustainability.
And we’re building incredible new spaces that will bring innovation – and compassion – to life for all British Columbians.
The new patient-centred model of care will help patients stay healthy, better manage complex and chronic illness, and provide them with better access to the best critical and acute care when needed and in less time.
Our goals: no more silos, no more compartmentalization, and no more getting lost in the system.
It seems obvious, and yet, in Canada, it’s never been done. But we’re not about to shy away from something because it’s different. Because when we’re at our best, we can change the world.
The hospital includes:
- Access to a wide range of integrated care programs and services
- Better coordination between care providers and clinics
- Single patient rooms with bathrooms and space for family to stay overnight
- New technologies (we’ll be one of the most digitally advanced hospitals in the country!)
- Senior-friendly campus layout
- Areas for wellness, rejuvenation, and spiritual support
A digitally advanced hospital
We’re using technology to improve patients’ experiences and to help staff work safely and efficiently while delivering treatment, leading to faster and better healing.
Some of the SMART technologies we’re using:
- Bedside devices will help inpatients connect with family, control room settings, read health info, access entertainment, and order meals
- A new 24/7 Care Coordination Centre, akin to an air traffic control tower, will coordinate teams and orchestrate the day-to-day logistics as patients arrive, receive treatment, are admitted to beds, go for tests, need medical equipment, have surgery, and eventually get discharged
- Digital technology will give clinic patients more convenience by using their mobile phones to book appointments, get reminders, check e-referral status, fill out forms, check-in, and view visit history
- Many rooms will have virtual health capability to allow a patient to be treated from home, when and where appropriate
- Medical records, test results, and images will be instantly and securely accessible to patients and their care team no matter where people are in the hospital, or the province, to empower patients to take more control of their health
- A new digital way-finding system and remote waiting technology will improve the visitor experience by helping people easily find their destination or wait in the food court, atrium, or plaza
- Automated robots will deliver supplies in backstage corridors, allowing ‘right stuff, right time’ deliveries to reduce clutter and soiled supplies on units. This will also ensure staff have what they need (for example when a patient needs a blanket or wound dressing).
Learn more about how we’re reimaging care for patients at the new St. Paul’s, and how you can have a direct impact on transforming lives.
Construction update
The new St Paul’s Hospital is springing to life from blueprints to bricks and mortar!
Update date: June 15, 2024
Hospital construction has now reached the 11th – and final – floor!
Other important milestones:
- Work has started on the exterior of the building, including windows, insulation, and cladding
- Important mechanical and electrical infrastructure is being installed, like piping, plumbing and wiring
Full-scale room mock-ups have been built in our mock up warehouse with real walls, flooring, fixtures, and equipment to help align all teams before the rest of the hospital is built. Take a mock room virtual tour!
Clinical Support and Research Centre
Our integrated medical campus is bridging research and clinical care to accelerate innovative treatments throughout BC and beyond.
A sky bridge in the new St. Paul’s Hospital will connect to the 12-storey Clinical Support and Research Centre (CSRC), a purpose-built facility where the world’s leading doctors, scientists, and researchers will work side by side, collaborating on a united goal: to change and improve the lives of British Columbians now, and for generations to come.
We care for many of the sickest, most complex, and most vulnerable patients. Their real-world challenges will inform and drive research, allowing us to solve (and potentially prevent) the pressing health issues in our province.
The CSRC is designed to expedite groundbreaking findings from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside, ushering in a new age of impactful medical discoveries that offer hope to patients in need. Its interconnectedness with the hospital will help us partner with – and centre – patients.
Its state-of-the-art research facilities will has the capacity to house:
- Phases 1-3 clinical trials
- Dry and wet labs
- Networked biobanks
- Analytic data centres
- An innovation centre
- Simulation and learning facilities
- Our world-leading research centres of excellence, including the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, Centre for Heart Valve Innovation, BC Centre of Excellence in HIV/AIDS, BC Centre on Substance Use, and Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes.
The CSRC is poised to become a best-in-class research hub that will accelerate the development of new drugs, treatments, and therapies, and forge ahead into new frontiers of medical science that will have a global impact.
This is more than a building: it’s the future of medicine.
“We can’t change the world if all the great work done by our renowned researchers stays in the lab. There’s nothing else in Canada comparable to what we’re planning. If you’re involved in health care research in BC – as a scientist, a partner, or a patient – this is the place to be.”
Dr. Darryl Knight
President, Providence Research, PHC vice president, Research and Academic Affairs and associate dean, Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
The next generation of innovation
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Dr. Laksman is using stem cells to grow heart-specific cells in a petri dish. By recreating a patient’s specific cardiac disease, applying medicines to it, and studying the effect of the treatment, he can determine which drugs work best for each patient.
Dr. Laksman is conducting trailblazing research in the aging facilities of the old St. Paul’s. The new research facility’s purpose-built labs, equipment, and technology will help ignite further breakthroughs.
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Dr. Wong is an expert in the Mohs Micrographic Surgery and started a Surgical Dermatology Clinic to quicken access to skin cancer excisions. Through the MedSafe program, Dr. Wong and her colleagues are developing genetic testing to prevent severe, life-threatening skin infections. Providence’s Dermatology Centre is already providing care for patients with complex skin conditions not readily available elsewhere in BC and, in some cases, Canada. At the CSRC, Dr. Wong will be able to deepen research and wraparound care.
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Dr. Thamboo is the only physician in Western Canada regularly performing an innovative day surgery to remove nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC), a rare cancer that grows in a hard-to-reach area behind the nose. Dr. Thamboo and his team are working with the BC Cancer Agency to identify NPC blood markers that could provide an early cancer warning. With the new St. Paul’s Hospital directly connected to the CSRC, physicians like Dr. Thamboo can expedite treatment for patients and lead the way in research discoveries.
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Dr. DeMarco pioneered a first-in-Canada Alzheimer’s biomarker test and then partnered with a pharmaceutical company to mass produce it. This test, now available across the country, can identify the early stages of the disease so patients can access treatments and services earlier that improve their quality of life. With the resources at the CSRC, we’ll be able to take more discoveries like Dr. DeMarco’s and bring them to patients—without a go-between.
We hold the promise of redefining the future of health care in this province. The transformative impact of the new St. Paul’s Hospital and medical campus will extend far beyond the confines of its physical space.
Centre for Healthy Aging
Empowering seniors and older adults
For the first time in history, there are more Canadians over the age of 65 than under 15. In BC alone, the number of seniors is expected to reach 1.6 million by 2036.
You don’t have to be a senior to know that the current system is poorly equipped to help older adults manage their complex health and psycho-social needs.
Care is often a hodgepodge of uncoordinated services characterized by long waits and multiple trips to see different specialists. In many cases, no one has a holistic overview of all the moving parts. That can lead to a host of issues including anxiety for patients and families, gaps in care, and unchecked drug interactions.
The Centre for Healthy Aging (CFHA), at the new St. Paul’s Hospital, will change all of that. It will be a central hub for a streamlined health care experience so older adults across BC can access the care and support they need, when and where they need it.
Known for its research, innovation, and excellence in supporting seniors in both acute and long-term care settings, Providence is uniquely positioned to redefine our expectations of seniors care and healthy aging.
We’ll enable seniors and older adults to stay independent and live at home where they are most comfortable for as long as possible, while remaining connected to their care providers.
We’ll honour each individual’s needs, goals, and values, and ensure they enjoy a higher quality of life.
There has never been a centre like this at an acute care hospital west of Toronto.
This is the new way forward in the delivery of care to older adults across the province.
We’re not waiting for the future, we’re building it. Your support helps us bring our revolutionary vision to life.
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