INFORMATION ABOUT OUR HOSPITALS

BC Children's Hospital (BCCH) provides expert care for the province's most seriously ill or injured children, including newborns and adolescents. Based in Vancouver, BCCH reaches across the province with vital health services that may not be available anywhere else in BC. We provide specialized training in pediatric health care and work with renowned researchers to achieve better health for children and youth. BCCH is affiliated with the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the Child and Family Research Institute, and other education and research institutions.

The Hudson Family Pediatric Intensive Care Unit is a 28 bed facility, separated into 3 distinct pods one of which is dedicated to Cardiac Intensive Care. It is located in the state of the art Teck Acute Care Centre (TACC) which opened in 2017. Single patient rooms, state of the art monitoring and a multitude of work spaces have elevated the care provided for approximately 1200 patients annually. The unit provides quaternary care pediatric critical care including all forms of cardiac surgical interventions, advanced ventilatory strategies (HFOV/HFJV), renal replacement, and extracorporeal life support. There are numerous training opportunities in these advanced therapies. The hospital has active cardiac, renal and bone marrow transplant programs. There is a very active pediatric transport and retrieval program with ample exposure for trainees.

Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) has approximately 700 acute care beds, and is the major adult tertiary referral hospital in the Province. It has a full range of programs and consulting services. It functions as the provincial Trauma Centre and is the home of a number of provincial programs (burn unit, bone marrow transplantation, solid organ transplantation, spinal cord injuries and hyperbaric medicine). Elective adult critical care medicine rotations occur at this facility.

Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) is a 400 bed acute care facility under the Fraser Health Authority and provides care to the communities of New Westminster, Coquitlam and Port Moody. RCH has a staff of 600 physicians (180 family physicians and 420 specialists) and plays an active role in the medical education of students in the department of medicine at UBC, with medical students and residents rotating through the different services at RCH. Elective trauma rotations occur at this facility.