New Hospital Taking Shape In Fort St John

Thursday, February 17, 2011 04:02 AM

Prince George, B.C. - The construction of a new $300-million dollar hospital and complex care facility in Fort St. John is on-time and on-budget...

Northern Health's CEO, Cathy Ulrich, says, "I was up there about a week ago to tour the construction site and the facility as its developing and things are well underway - it's quite exciting."

The new facility will replace the existing hospital and North Peace Care Centre. Ulrich says more than 100 staff and physicians were intensively involved in the design phase over the past two years. The project is proceeding through a public-private partnership. The Peace River Regional Hospital District is funding 40-percent of the project, the rest of the funding is coming from the BC government, through its capital allocation to Northern Health.

Two other projects at the top of Northern Health's capital 'wish-list' are replacing the aging hospitals in Burns Lake and the Village of Queen Charlotte. Ulrich says the regional hospital districts in both areas advanced money to begin the planning phase of those projects.

"So both are in the schematic design and costing phases and work is moving forward well on both of those," says the Northern Health CEO. "We will still be awaiting approval from the provincial government in regards to next steps with those projects."

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