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BURNABY, B.C. – Two Burnaby hospital redevelopment project facilities are now officially open to patients.

Last week, the new health care pavilion and expanded support facilities building opened to patients, marking a milestone in transforming the hospital into a modernized medical and surgical health-care campus, a release reads.

The new facilities are a major part of the Burnaby Hospital redevelopment project, which includes renovations to existing buildings on the campus.

The new six-storey health care pavilion includes 83 beds, primarily in single-patient rooms with ensuite washrooms.

It will be home to:

• a mental-health inpatient unit with a secured outdoor space;
• maternity and neonatal intensive care units with dedicated family areas, including couches for partners;
• a medicine unit with negative-pressure rooms and outbreak zones;
• outpatient clinics to support maternity, pediatric, neurology, multiple sclerosis and diagnostic cardiology patients; and
• a cafeteria.

The expanded support facilities building features:

• a larger Burnaby Community Emergency Department, adding 23 new treatment spaces and a dedicated mental-health zone;
• six operating rooms in the Jim Pattison Surgery Centre;
• a modern medical device reprocessing department;
• a kitchen;
• additional education and collaboration spaces for clinical teams; and 
• an energy centre

The cost of the project is estimated to be $633 million, funded by the province and the Burnaby Hospital and Community Foundation. The original Burnaby Hospital opened in 1952.