Building for the Future
This is BC’s first ever purpose-built medical campus designed to put patients first. We’re innovating the health care of tomorrow. Help us build our new home.
This isn’t just a hospital. We’re building a first-in-Canada 18-acre medical campus – along the lines of Johns Hopkins and the Cleveland Clinic – that will drive clinical care and research to advance the health of people across BC and beyond.
The medical campus – about the size of eight city blocks in Vancouver’s False Creek Flats – will include the new St. Paul’s acute care hospital, an adjoining research facility, space for life sciences industry partners, and more.
This unique model will enable our world-class clinicians and researchers to accelerate medical discovery, develop new therapies and vaccines quickly, promote healthy aging, and ensure pandemic preparedness.
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.
Putting the patient first; bridging the gap between patients and communities in need with world-class care and research. That is the winning formula behind the new St. Paul’s medical campus.
The opportunity to build a completely new medical campus in BC will not happen again in our lifetimes, and we share a deep responsibility to deliver it. Your gift will have an impact today and for generations to come.
The impact of your support
With donor support, St. Paul’s tackles the biggest questions for patients with complex, chronic disease and finds previously unimaginable cures that go on to help people around the world.
What makes the new St. Paul’s Hospital such a game-changer? Everything!
- Almost twice the size of the current St. Paul’s Hospital
- Attached to a 38,050 square metre research and innovation hub, the Clinical Support and Research Centre (CSRC), which will help accelerate treatments from the lab bench to the patient’s bedside
- A larger Teck Emergency Department equipped to reduce wait times and serve patients better
- Capacity for 548 beds – that’s 25% more than the current location
- Every inpatient room is a private room with a washroom, a shower, and a fold-out sofa for a loved one
- Digitally advanced, SMART technologies that improve patient/visitor experiences, increase staff efficiency, and lead to faster and better healing
- Designed for resilience to withstand earthquakes, rising temperatures, extreme weather, the expected sea level rise, and to operate as a post-disaster health care facility able to serve our community for 72 hours without power
- Pandemic-ready with three times more handwashing sinks, eight times more negative pressure rooms, and advanced HVAC and infection control
- Patients and doctors in rural areas across BC will save time and money with extensive telehealth services, which allow for remote consults with medical campus specialists
- Built to LEED Gold Standards for green buildings, including sustainability features to optimize energy efficiency, minimize emissions, re-use heat, manage rainwater, and more
- Emphasis on holistic wellness with natural light, art, sacred spaces, and gardens
- A welcoming Catholic Chapel with inspiring stained-glass windows, as well as spiritual care to serve all faith needs and preferences
- Accessible and close to transit services
We’ll ease the patient journey at the new St. Paul’s hospital and medical campus. You and your loved ones will receive coordinated care by specialists from different departments coming together – no more juggling multiple appointments.
Now, we need your help to continue providing the top-notch care we’re known for. You can be part of something truly transformative: reimagining health care for patients, families, and caregivers.
Join us on this once-in-a-lifetime journey to the new St. Paul’s Hospital and medical campus.
Clinical Support and Research Centre
The medical care we benefit from today is thanks to decades of work led by clinician-scientists and researchers.
For over a century, St. Paul’s has distinguished itself with incredible innovations to solve some of the most pressing health problems of our time. Many of our advancements have been borne out of aging facilities, which is a testament to the talents, incredible determination, and passion of our team.
Imagine what our researchers and clinicians will do in a space that’s purpose-built to put people first, bring world-class ideas to life, and advance medical breakthroughs.
The Clinical Support and Research Centre (CSRC), located on the new St. Paul’s Hospital and medical campus, has the capacity to house:
- Physician and specialist offices
- A Clinical Trials Unit (Phase I-III): the first facility in Western Canada with the potential to conduct all phases of non-cancer clinical trials
- A Simulation and Experiential Learning Centre: to advance health care training for researchers, staff, students, and industry
- An Innovation Centre: a unique collision space designed to facilitate a range of conversations from small one-on-one chance encounters and small team meetings to seminars and full-scale presentations or events; with the goal of accelerating research and development and enabling partnerships and commercial opportunities in life sciences
- All of our Research Centres of Excellence
- Wet and Dry Shared Labs: this centralized space will support the shared use of specialized equipment and instruments, and encourage collaboration
- Networked Biobanks and Data Centre: to expand our specimen biobank, harness the power of AI and machine learning, and develop precision medicine that can cure, reverse or even prevent diseases
- Meeting and Conference Facilities
- Providence Health Care’s Corporate & Support Services
“We are at the forefront of both research and clinical care. Working adjacent to the hospital, we can easily take discoveries in the lab and translate them into better treatments for our patients.”
Dr. Bradley Quon
Clinician-scientist at St. Paul’s Hospital, medical director of the Cystic Fibrosis Adult Care Program, and researcher at the Centre for Heart and Lung Innovation
When the doors to the CSRC open, our renowned doctors and scientists will have a facility to work in that is worthy of their talents, distinction, and passion.
It will allow us to deliver a continuum of care on our campus: acute care in the hospital, outpatient care in our clinics, and follow-up visits – in-person or remotely – with specialists from their offices.
While we’ve received tremendous support from the Province of BC to cover about half the cost, St. Paul’s Foundation is partnering with philanthropic community builders to raise $88M to bring the vision of the CSRC to life.
The time is now to join us and support this once-in-a-generation opportunity for our health and the health of our loved ones.
“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; vice-president, research and academic affairs, Providence Health Care; and associate dean, research, faculty of medicine, University of British Columbia
Care that reaches beyond the campus
Headquartered in Vancouver, the new St. Paul’s Hospital and medical campus will connect physicians and scientists of St. Paul’s Hospital and Providence Research with Providence Health Care’s health professionals and facilities across BC. Campus discoveries will flow throughout the province, accelerating and extending its impact.
Innovation is a team sport. We need your help to make this dynamic, life-changing, purpose-built medical campus a reality.
The impact of your gift will not stop at St. Paul’s Hospital. Your support will have a ripple effect and elevate the care for patients with complex, chronic diseases worldwide.