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municipalities. Saanich Peninsula Hospital "was built in 1974 as an Extended Care facility and has grown to become a full service hospital with 48 acute care beds and 144 extended care beds".
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Nanaimo Regional General Hospital is slated to receive a new $ 33.85-million intensive care unit in 2021. "It will replace what a 2013 Island Health report deemed the 'worst' ICU in Canada."
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also known as the Vancouver Island Health Authority, is the publicly funded health care provider in the southwestern portion of the
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Outside of the CRD, the primary hospital serving the populous lower island is the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, serving
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Island Health provides health care to over 850,000 people over a geographic area of 56,000 sq km. In the early stages of the
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The other three metropolitan communities on Vancouver Island which function as centres of primary care are
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both have new facilities as of 2017. North Island Hospital Campbell River and District provides 95 beds.
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on the southern tip of Vancouver Island as the majority constituent of the
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Public health authority in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Island Health's 150 hospitals and health centres include:
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Pender Islands Bishop Coleman Memorial Health Centre
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23,000 staff; 2,500 medical staff; 4,000 volunteers
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