Pebble Partner Project Descriptions
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Vancouver Island Health Authority
Victoria, BC
www.viha.ca/

The project has four main components:

1. Construct a new building that will provide 500 beds for patients who need overnight care in the hospital
2. Upgrade the boiler plant systems to support the new building and other enhanced services
3. Create additional visitor and staff parking and realign existing parking
4. Relocate critical programs. 

The primary objective of the Royal Jubilee Hospital Patient Care Center Project is to replace the physically and functionally obsolete inpatient accommodation. Renewing the inpatient spaces provides the opportunity to develop more effective and efficient space that will meet best practice standards, allow for optimal work-flow, and improve health outcomes for patients.

Royal Jubilee Hospital has the greatest proportion of people over age 75 in the VIHA. The population of people over age 85 is expected to grow by approximately 9% by 2010, having a significant impact on acute care services. Thus one of the challenges of this project is to provide appropriate care for the growing number of elderly people served by this hospital.

Construction of the approximately 110,241 square feet project is expected to begin in March of 2008 with completion in April 2010. Projected project cost is approximately $269 million.