Kelowna General Hospital Foundation | Need for Community Support Need for Community Support
As the tertiary care facility within Interior Health, Kelowna General Hospital delivers world-class healthcare to our community. Through a unique partnership with the Province, IHA and our Regional Hospital District, three critical areas of healthcare are slated for increased funding and expansion; additionally, the Province has identified KGH as one of five sites in BC for upgraded cardiac services, including angioplasty by 2010 and cardiac surgery by 2012. The following three areas of care are the initial priority for KGH:
Emergency Care |
Ambulatory Care |
Medical School |
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Our dedicated physicians and nurses continue to provide excellent care despite well documented over crowding. KGH plans to expand the existing ER in order to quadruple its capacity and incorporate new streaming directives to increase efficiency in patient triage and treatment. Crews are already building a six-storey patient care tower featuring new operating rooms and space for up to 135 new beds. |
Advances in technology and medicine have dramatically reduced in-patient admissions, however at the same time we’ve seen a corresponding surge in ER and Ambulatory Care volumes. KGH plans to build and equip a new ambulatory care centre that will centralize admissions and procedures including medical and surgical day care; increased efficiencies will reduce the burden on acute care beds and provide early diagnosis and prevention of diseases. |
The projected shortage of medical professionals in Canada and abroad is startling. Building is underway for a new medical school on site at the hospital campus that will include a new teaching auditorium comprised of 180 seats, wired with all the latest technology of a “smart classroom”. This investment in infrastructure in a teaching hospital in the Okanagan region will address an acute shortage of physicians in BC. |
