Royal Jubilee Hospital

Royal Jubilee Hospital
Vancouver Island Health Authority
Location in British Columbia
Geography
Location Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Coordinates 48°26′00″N 123°19′39″W / 48.4334°N 123.3274°W / 48.4334; -123.3274Coordinates: 48°26′00″N 123°19′39″W / 48.4334°N 123.3274°W / 48.4334; -123.3274
Organization
Care system Public Medicare (Canada)
Hospital type General
Affiliated university University of British Columbia
Services
Emergency department Yes
Helipad TC LID: CBK8
Beds 500
History
Founded 1890
Links
Website Royal Jubilee Hospital
Lists Hospitals in Canada

The Royal Jubilee Hospital is a 500-bed general hospital in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada located about 3 km (1.9 mi) east of the city centre, in the Jubilee neighbourhood (itself named after the hospital).

Overview

Its name commemorates the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. Founded in 1890, Royal Jubilee was Victoria's main hospital until 1983, when an expanded Victoria General Hospital re-opened in the suburban municipality of View Royal.[1] Royal Jubilee offers critical-care, surgery, diagnostics, emergency facilities and other patient programs. It has a particular focus on cardiac medicine.[2]

In 2007, the British Columbia government announced that it would expand and renovate the hospital, increasing the number of beds to 500 and replacing many buildings.[3] The new 500-bed patient care centre (PCC) was opened to the public in early 2011.

Campus Map

See BC Cancer Agency for a map of the grounds with parking and buildings shown.

Begbie Hall

Begbie Hall, a three-storey former nurses' residence at the hospital, was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1989 to commemorate the growing professionalism of nursing in the early 20th century and the contribution of nurses to health care in Canada.[4] Today the Begbie Hall is used for administrative offices, and contains the Woodward Theatre for meetings. The Woodward Theatre was apparently the original cafeteria for the resident nurses.[5]

Pemberton Memorial Operating Room

The octagonal Pemberton Memorial Operating Room, completed in 1896, was designated a National Historic Site in 2005. It is an octagonal brick operating room; a rare surviving example of a late 19th-century surgical facility from the period when hospitals were transitioning from primarily charitable to scientific institutions.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Victoria Hospitals Foundation: Milestones
  2. ↑ University of British Columbia, Department of Orthopaedics: Vancouver Island Health Authority
  3. ↑ Premier Gordon Campbell's Video Gallery: New Royal Jubilee Hospital
  4. ↑ Begbie Hall. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
  5. ↑ Personal anecdote, current employee. Needs to be confirmed. April, 2014.
  6. ↑ Pemberton Memorial Operating Room. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
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