Hospital type Tertiary Helipad TC LID: CNW9 Founded 1862 | Emergency department Level I trauma center Phone +1 604-520-4253 Number of beds 402 | |
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The Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) is the oldest hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia and one of the busiest in the Fraser Health Authority. RCH is located in the city of New Westminster overlooking the Fraser River and is the only hospital in the Lower Mainland that is immediately adjacent to a Skytrain station (Sapperton).
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- Overview
- History
- Academic affiliations
- Future expansion
- References
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Overview
Royal Columbian Hospital is a major tertiary care facility known for trauma care, neurosurgery and open-heart surgery and neonatal intensive care.
The hospital has the only program capable of performing cardiac surgery for expectant women in the Province of British Columbia. RCH performs 95 per cent of the primary angioplasties or percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) for the region and has demonstrated healthy outcomes for patients transferred back to their referring hospital.
Royal Columbian Hospital was again ranked one of the top hospitals in the country in caring for infants in its NICU in the latest Canadian Neonatal Network report (2015). The hospital’s NICU, which cared for 528 of B.C.’s premature and vulnerable infants during the study period, was rated one of the best in the country at saving these high-risk babies. It achieved a 98.6 percent survival rate overall for its infant patients, this despite the fact that as a Level 3 NICU it also cares for some of B.C.’s “micro pree-mies”. The hospital has consistently been in the top rankings over the roughly 18 years the Network has been producing the study.
The hospital has 402 acute care beds and has a medical staff of approximately 385 physicians, divided between family physicians (150) and specialists (235). Many of the physicians also practice at Eagle Ridge Hospital in nearby Port Moody.
RCH has a helipad that receives air ambulances operated by the BC Ambulance Service. RCH offers free Wi-Fi through a FatPort hotspot near the main entrance.
History
The need for a hospital to care for the sick and injured became a public concern during the population growth caused by the gold rushes of the 1850s and 1860s.
The first Royal Columbian Hospital, designed for thirty patients and located on the corner of Clement (now 4th Street) and Agnes Street was opened on 7 October 1862 to care for men only. Women, children, and "the incurable and the insane" were excluded from care. The Royal Engineers planned and helped build the hospital, the first in the colony. The cost was $3,396. A chain gang from the penitentiary helped clear the site.
RCH moved to its current location in the Sapperton area of New Westminster in 1889.. An early physician and surgeon connected with the hospital at this location was Richard Irvine Bentley.
In 1978, Prince Phillip and Health Minister Bob McClelland opened the addition of the Health Care Centre portion of the hospital.
Academic affiliations
RCH housed a nursing school between 1901 and 1978 in the Sherbrooke building. It now accommodates administration and mental health clinical services. RCH is a Clinical Academic Campus affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of British Columbia, the first in the Fraser Health region.
Future expansion
Fraser Health, the health authority that operates RCH, is working on plans to redevelop and expand the hospital to address aging infrastructure and a congested emergency department.
In June 2012, the provincial government committed to the expansion and renovation of the hospital.