Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation is pleased to recognize BMO Financial Group’s leadership role in our redevelopment fundraising campaign.
The Redevelopment of Royal Columbian Hospital
A $1.49 billion multi-phase, multi-year transformation of Royal Columbian Hospital is underway. Our vision is to create a world-class hospital: a state-of-the art facility that provides uncompromising care and remarkable patient experiences.
We are proud of our role as a major critical care hospital, serving a population equal to a third of British Columbians. No other centre in BC offers our scope of services, delivered at such a high level. That’s why redevelopment at Royal Columbian is such an important project.
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DonateBmo is Helping to Shine a Light On Mental Health
Their $1 million donation in support of mental health has helped to transform how critical care is delivered in BC, and ensure patients have the exceptional care they deserve.
The new Mental Health and Substance Use Wellness Centre, which was completed and opened in 2020, provides a significant opportunity for groundbreaking research, increased psychiatric training and state-of-the-art patient care. Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation has supported this mental health centre with $9.1 million from our generous donors.
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DonateWhen an emergency happens, every single second counts. A senior suffering a stroke, arriving unconscious at hospital. An accident victim, gravely injured and rushed here by Air Ambulance. A woman in labour and cardiac arrest, with two lives now in the balance.
The big picture
Phase One: Mental Health Expansion (2016-2020)
- A new 75-bed mental health and substance use wellness centre with new and expanded outpatient clinics, Fraser Health’s first older adult psychiatric unit, and a psychiatric high acuity unit, all to replace the aging 30-bed Sherbrooke Centre
- A new energy centre to replace the aging power plant and tie into the city’s future district energy centre
- New parking, including a 400+ stall underground parkade plus a temporarily expanded visitor lot onsite, and a temporary offsite lot for employees
- Moving the heliport to Columbia Tower’s roof, away from future construction cranes
- An advanced IT fibre optic and utilities pathway that ties into city infrastructure and enables advanced health care technologies.
Phase Two: Acute Care Tower (2020-2025)
- A new Acute Care Tower with:
- More beds for intensive care, cardiac intensive care, medicine and surgical patients, all in single-patient private rooms
- A new, larger Emergency department with a satellite medical imaging unit
- More operating rooms & more interventional suites for cardiology and interventional radiology
- More maternity beds and one more maternity operating room.
- Expansion of the pediatric unit & the neonatal intensive care unit.
- A 400+ stall underground parkade, a new main entrance and a rooftop helipad
- New advanced medical equipment and technologies, building services (e.g mechanical and electrical) and energy centre equipment
- Replacement of the aging Sherbrooke Centre, old power plant, main entrance and laundry/maintenance buildings with site enhancements.

Preliminary design concept
Phase Three: Expanding Capacity (2023-2026)
- Expansion of support service areas such as the laboratory, pharmacy, food services, diagnostic services and medical imaging, and the addition of one more MRI
- Conversion of four-bed patient rooms in Columbia Tower into single or semi-private rooms
- Upgrade and move the cafeteria, administration offices and ambulatory care services.