Royal Jubilee Hospital
| Royal Jubilee Hospital | |
| Vancouver Island Health Authority | |
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 Location in British Columbia
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| Geography | |
| Location | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| Coordinates | 48°26′00″N 123°19′38″W / 48.4333333°N 123.32722°WCoordinates: 48°26′00″N 123°19′38″W / 48.4333333°N 123.32722°W |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Public Medicare (Canada) (MSP) |
| Hospital type | General |
| Affiliated university | University of British Columbia |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Helipad | TC LID: CBK8 |
| Beds | 400 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1890 |
| Links | |
| Website | Royal Jubilee Hospital |
| Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
The Royal Jubilee Hospital is a 400-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). 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]
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.[3] The octagonal Pemberton Memorial Operating Room was designated a National Historic Site in 2005 as a rare surviving example of a late 19th-century surgical facility.[4]
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.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Victoria Hospitals Foundation: Milestones
- ^ University of British Columbia, Department of Orthopaedics: Vancouver Island Health Authority
- ^ Begbie Hall. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ Pemberton Memorial Operating Room. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ^ Premier Gordon Campbell's Video Gallery: New Royal Jubilee Hospital
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