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[Surrey] Memorial Hospital Expansion | Completed

Emergency Centre Campaign
THE NEED - THE FACTS - THE PLAN


Watch the video for the ER Campaign.
http://www.smhfoundation.com/cms/fil..._ctr_aug11.wmv


THE NEED

Located in one of fastest growing cities in the country, Surrey Memorial Hospital is the second largest hospital in BC with the province’s busiest Emergency Department. Close to 70,000 patients per year visit its Emergency in a facility built for 44,000.

While staff do everything possible to minimize the wait for treatment, the emergency suffers from overcrowding, lack of privacy and long line-ups. A new Emergency Centre will allow the hospital to deliver emergency services in a safe, efficient and patient-friendly manner. It is critical to maintaining the quality of life in Surrey’s growing community – now and in the future.


THE FACTS

BC Government has announced plans to invest in a new Emergency Centre for Surrey Memorial.

Surrey Memorial Hospital Foundation has embarked on a capital campaign to raise an additional $15 million to ensure that the facility is state-of-the-art and equipped with the best in medical technology.

More than half of admitted patients at Surrey Memorial enter the hospital through the ER.

Surrey Memorial’s ER sees close to 200 patients on an average day.

20% of all emergency visits to Surrey Memorial Hospital each year are pediatric. Within the province, only BC Children's Hospital sees more children in their emergency than Surrey Memorial.

Between now and 2020, ER visits are projected to increase to 96,500.


THE PLAN

Exciting plans are underway for an innovative, state-of-the-art Emergency Centre that will be nearly triple the size of the current ER. This will enhance our ability to provide fast, responsive care and offer comfortable space for patients and waiting families.

Built with the best clinical practices in mind, the new Emergency Centre will apply the finest architectural practices from around the world. It will be bright and visually pleasing, with wider corridors, larger treatment spaces, additional soundproofing for noise control and easy access to parking and public transit.

The new Emergency Centre will include four patient-focused treatment areas:
  • Mental Health & Addictions Crisis Response Unit – Ideally situated close to the ambulance entrance, this area will provide much-needed assessment, stabilization and initial treatment facilities for people with mental health and addiction problems.
  • Children’s ER – The Children’s ER will be bright and family-oriented and will include fully-equipped nursing stations as well as a dedicated bed area. It will be separate from the acute and mental health treatment areas to reduce anxiety for children and their families.
  • Acute Patient Treatment Area – Patients with acute injuries that require urgent medical attention will be treated in the Acute Patient Treatment Area. This area will be significantly larger than the existing space, enabling staff to safely and efficiently treat patients, significantly improving patient care.
  • Minor Treatment Unit – Designed to increase efficiency and significantly reduce waiting times in the ER, the Minor Treatment Unit will accommodate patients with less severe injuries or illnesses. It will include a waiting area and fully-equipped examination rooms.

In addition to the patient focused treatment areas, the new Emergency Centre will also include expanded dedicated areas for police and emergency responders, and a designated area to monitor patients with heart conditions and chest pains.

These enhancements will substantially improve Surrey Memorial’s efficiency, enhance the emergency care we offer to patients and place the hospital in a better position to continue attracting and retaining the finest medical expertise, supported by the latest medical equipment and technology.

Visit here for more photos: http://www.smhfoundation.com/cms/ind...?group_id=1368

Aerial View of the hospital:
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Old Posted Feb 1, 2009, 6:29 AM
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Is that construction shown in the photo the new emergency centre?
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this picture shows it sitting in the area more by the parkade
also well at it more pictures of the supposed upgrade















all images are from civic surrey site
i love that site lol
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The building looks great. The kids corner looks sad.

I love the sweeping/curved overpass thingy. Although I think that they should try to work something else into the building and make it taller. Or maybe I'm just crazy, because it seems like hospitals never build dense enough and will run out of space quickly.
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looks good

so they will have to demo a bunch of existing stuff before this can start?
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looks good

so they will have to demo a bunch of existing stuff before this can start?
I don't know...there aren't much updates about it these days.
We will have to wait till the fundraiser is over...that's the main
factor of the progress of this construction.
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Today I had the pleasure of launching the final phase of the complete redevelopment and expansion of Surrey Memorial Hospital. We’re building a whole new critical care tower, adding 151 new acute care beds (a 30 per cent increase), and a massively expanded emergency department. The new ER will be almost five times the size of the current facility, and will include specialized mental health and geriatric units. It also includes a separate children’s ER, a better minor treatment unit, and improvements in the physical environment for acute patients.

Since 2005, we have been steadily adding resources to health services in Surrey. Construction is underway on the new Surrey Outpatient Hospital about a kilometre away from the SMH campus. We’ve been adding new beds and services over the past four years in SMH, and all across the region.

This expansion represents the single-largest investment in healthcare infrastructure in B.C. history. Beyond the huge benefits to patients, this investment is also creating construction and other jobs at a time when we desperately need them. This project will create about 3,700 jobs, and that’s significant for workers in Surrey and around the lower mainland who will be building this hospital expansion.
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Different pic from the Now:

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An artist’s rendition of a new state-of-the-art critical care tower at Surrey Memorial Hospital that was unveiled by Premier Gordon Campbell on Friday.

Campbell unveils big plans for Surrey Memorial Hospital
Tom Zytaruk
Surrey Now; with files from The Vancouver Sun

Friday, February 06, 2009

A new state-of-the-art critical care tower at Surrey Memorial Hospital was unveiled by Premier Gordon Campbell today.

The facility will increase the number of acute care beds by over 30 per cent and include a new emergency department almost five times the size of the current ER.

"This project will significantly increase the number of beds at SMH, adding 151 beds for a total of 650 beds when complete and will allow patients to be admitted more quickly," Campbell said.

"It will also help plan for the future, with the addition of more academic space at Surrey Memorial, helping to train more doctors."

Cost of the P3 project is estimated at between $500 and $600 million but the final figure won't be known until the scope of the project is fleshed out and the public-private contract is signed.

Construction is slated to begin in 2010 and is expected to create 3,760 jobs.

The new emergency department is expected to open for patients in the spring of 2013.

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In somewhat related news I heard the government was going to look at merging Vancouver Coastal Health with the Fraser Health Authority. If done right that could make our system a lot more efficient, get rid of duplicated effort and of course treat more people for less money. Then all they need to do is fold in Interior Health.
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Today, Gordon Campbell made yet another appearance at Surrey Memorial Hospital, the backdrop for countless B.C. Liberal announcements and re-announcements.

But years of Campbell government photo ops have not translated into actual action on the issues that really matter to Surrey families: the ER crisis, cancelled surgeries, and unprecedented waitlists plaguing the hospital Surrey residents have to turn to in their time of need.

Is the Campbell government so out of touch with Surrey residents that they think photo ops will cut it? Families deserve real action on health care, not more broken promises from the B.C. Liberals.

Here are the facts:

· Gordon Campbell has a record of cutting acute care bed. Today's announcement does not fix a problem that Gordon Campbell has helped create, and that Surrey residents have been hurt by.

The Fraser Health Authority currently faces a bed shortage 650 beds, which will grow to 750 by 2010, but the beds announced today won't be finished until 2014. Moreover, the acute care bed shortage will persist in the fastest growing region of B.C.

The acute care bed shortage in the Fraser Health Region was created by the B.C. Liberals' bed cuts in their first term and their subsequent failure to address the growing shortage. From 2002 until 2005, when ER chiefs were telling them of the crisis, they were removing beds. There were 2,053 beds in the region in April 2002. By 2005, that number dropped to 1,856, a reduction of 197 beds. This include a loss of beds at Surrey Memorial and the closure of St. Mary's Hospital.

· Gordon Campbell only takes notice of Surrey Memorial at election time. After ignoring repeated calls to expand the ER and acute care capacity, Campbell promised, right before the 2005 election, that the new emergency room would be well underway by now:

- "I guarantee all Surrey residents that they will see significant and sweeping improvements to their acute care access...the shovels will be in the ground by 2008" (B.C. Liberal Party Press Release, May 10, 2005).

Today, Gordon Campbell admitted that the critical care tower where the ER will be housed could be completed in 2014 at the earliest. That's a decade after the ER and acute care crisis was brought to his attention.

· The outpatient facility was supposed to have been finished this year. The facility is well behind schedule, and rising in cost, due to Campbell's privatization agenda. Patients and their families will have to wait at least five more years until the new unit is completed.

· Under Gordon Campbell, Surrey residents have suffered from a declining quality of care. B.C. has dropped from 2nd to 7th in per capita health care funding. Gordon Campbell did not meet Surrey's health care needs when times were good. How can he be trusted to meet them now?
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wait to add a whole other year to what was said....
its says 2013 not 2014
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Haha. Ravman, your obsessive, cult-like support of the NDP really cracks me up.

Just in case you haven't been reading, they are also building another hospital just down the street, and possible converting the failed Asian Centre on 104th Avenue into another outpatient centre. It will allow more beds. Not to mention that they will most likely convert the old emergency into more beds.
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where did you hear that?
that would be nice to finally see them put use to that place
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where did you hear that?
that would be nice to finally see them put use to that place
http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_ar.../36316889.html

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FHA wants empty former Asian Centre

By Kevin Diakiw - Surrey North Delta Leader

Published: December 17, 2008 10:00 AM
Updated: December 17, 2008 10:52 AM

The Fraser Health Authority (FHA) is looking to lease the former Asian Centre in North Surrey, The Leader has learned.

FHA is currently negotiating for the "104 Avenue Centre" near 142 Street in hopes of creating a community health centre, with doctors' offices, care for seniors, labs and other outpatient services.

FHA spokesperson David Plug confirmed the authority is seeking to secure the space.

"We're in negotiations, I don't know if we're the only one," Plug said, adding it's difficult to say when a potential agreement could be reached. "It depends on the pace of negotiations, then it would have to go through the board approval process."

The regional health authority is interested in leasing the entire 24,000 sq.-m. (275,000-sq.-ft.) structure. It has been described by developers as overbuilt, with several escalators, elevators, large floor plates and high ceilings, which some say is ideal for a health facility.

"We could probably use that much space, yes," Plug said. "It is an interesting opportunity ... it's large, it's adaptable, and it's close to City Centre."

The FHA interest, and the possibility of a health facility at the site, is just the latest development plan for the long-beleaguered project.

In 1997, amid much fanfare, the "Asian Centre" was announced – an eastern-themed mall project financed almost in entirely by Taiwanese investors. It was touted as the linchpin for development along the 104 Avenue corridor between Guildford and Whalley.

Costs soared, and in 1999 the $35-million project was $15 million over budget. People who pre-purchased, and construction suppliers got nervous when the owners sought refinancing mid-stream.

Then in December 2000, a Taiwanese investor promising rescue financing called developers from the airport saying he was pulling out of the project. His departure created devastating and long-lasting impact on the Asian Centre.

Almost 100 people who pre-purchased space in the Asian Centre lost their investments.

In 2001, the project was bankrupt and an Ontario pension firm had an offer to purchase, contingent on an agreement that the RCMP headquarters would commit to moving there. Neither that assurance, nor the sale, materialized.

The building was eventually acquired in 2002 by Donald Pitt, a development tycoon from Tuscon, Arizona. Unprepared to make the mistakes of his predecessors, Pitt has been waiting for a strong anchor tenant before renting out any of the building.

Plug said Tuesday the owner isn't prepared to sell, so the FHA is seeking leasing opportunities.

He couldn't say when a decision will be made.

Coun. Mary Martin, chair of the mayor's task force on health, said the site is ideal for a community health care facility.

"Certainly it is dearly necessary," Martin said Tuesday. "If they can (lease) this property and staff it, that's my concern is staffing it, and allowing families to utilize it ... anything that alleviates the (pressures on) emergency care at Surrey Memorial Hospital is going to be a positive."

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that would be kind a cool to be there it could possible help bridge the gap between central and guildford
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Lets not forget that the Liberals are responsible, not only for this new 5 storey addition to SMH, but also for building the new hospital in Abbotsford and now of course the new outpatient building being built at Fraser HWY and 140th St.

The NDP made very few investments in new schools, road infrastructure and healthcare. Instead, they decided to invest $500,000,000 in fast ferries. Now the Liberals are trying to bring BC up to where it should have been years ago, but its hard and it costs alot of money since everything has been left to the Liberals after years of NDP mismanagement.

If the NDP had of been in power durring the last 8 years, I'm not so sure that we would be getting so excited about tower construction since there wouldn't have been any investment from the private sector into a province that would have been lead by a debilitating SOCIALIST party.

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This isn't a political thread. Move your discussions over there, not here.
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I thought a new hospital in the Cloverdale area was on the planning books also...?
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