With the success of our MRI and CT Campaigns, our hospital now has the best in medical imaging and can support expansion to our Emergency Department. Originally designed to facilitate 32,000 visits per year, our ED now sees over 48,000 visits annually. It is one of the busiest and most urgent areas of the hospital.

The BC Government has committed $4.9 million to renovate and add an additional 2,000 sq. ft. to our ED by moving the south wall back towards the parkade. This will allow for 5 new care spaces, more room between the beds, improvements to triage, waiting area, increase in resuscitation from one to two beds, additional negative air rooms for infection control, and more.

The Foundation will contribute the additional funds needed for new specialized equipment to provide the most efficient and quality care for patients. Among these are a new hands-free communication system that will eliminate overhead paging and provide instant access to medical personnel, and a pneumatic tube system between the ED and the lab, which will create tremendous efficiency in transporting medical supplies.

Please help us make our Emergency Department the best that it can be.
Call 604-244-5252 or email us.

 

September marked the successful finish of our $500,000 CT Scanner Campaign. Thanks to your generous donations and an amazing matching gift of $250,000 from the Milan and Maureen Ilich Foundation, Richmond Hospital will be home to a brand new, state-of-the-art 128-Slice Adaptive CT Scanner. Our new CT Scanner, which will replace our current 16-Slice CT, will provide faster, better and safer care for our patients.

Not only is the 128-Slice CT able to perform scans faster than our current CT (half the time), but it does so much safer, with half the radiation exposed to patients, and with better results, producing scans with twice the imaging power. It will also be able to perform procedures that our current CT cannot – such as cardiac imaging and CT Colonographies. 

Our new 128-Slice Adaptive CT Scanner is the first of its kind in B.C. and will be unique in the industry. Not only will it adapt to any patient size, it will perform a scan in an amazing 12 seconds.

Save the dates!

With this new 128-Slice Adaptive CT Scanner, to be up and running in January of 2010, and our new, open bore MRI, being delivered to Richmond Hospital October 8, 2009 and operational starting November, Richmond Hospital will deliver first-class medical imaging.

Many exciting changes have happened to this department and we are thrilled to share them with our community. Please stay tuned for the Grand Opening Day of the Milan and Maureen Ilich Medical Imaging Centre to see both the MRI and the CT, in January 2010!