Interior Heart and Surgical Centre Project

The $448 million Interior Heart and Surgical Centre (IHSC) Project is an important part of building patient care in the Interior. When included with the new patient care towers at KGH and VJH and the development of UBC’s Southern Medical Program, this will bring to almost $900 million the total capital investment in the Central and North Okanagan since 2007.

The IHSC will benefit patients across the health authority by being able to provide the highest level of medical care ever seen in the Interior in an integrated critical care facility supported by a full range of clinical supports closer to where people live.

The IHSC’s state of the art inpatient surgical unit, combined with the cardiac revascularization program, will save lives by providing timely, life-saving therapies and surgeries to residents of the Southern Interior who previously would have had to be transported to the coast.

Support services will be enhanced, including cardiac, surgical and intensive care units, a new and expanded central sterilization reprocessing department and expanded diagnostic imaging, pharmacy and materials management departments.

In addition, a new modern adult psychiatry inpatient unit, updated medical inpatient unit, and ophthalmology department will be created in the new KGH Patient Care Tower, along with an expanded laboratory and clinical departments in the new Clinical Support Building (CSB).