Partners

Making significant changes to health care delivery requires the many partnerships we have formed and are forming across B.C. Providence Health Care is working closely with physicians, researchers and other staff and care providers across Providence, host Nations and Indigenous community partners, community and patient groups throughout the province, as well as the BC Ministry of Health, Vancouver Coastal Health, Provincial Health Services Authority, Fraser Health, St. Paul’s Foundation and the City of Vancouver on planning for the new St. Paul’s Hospital and Health Campus.

Ministry of Health

The BC Ministry of Health has approved the project and is a key partner in rebuilding St. Paul’s Hospital and developing a new innovative health campus on the Station Street site.

Health Authority Partners

Together with our regional and provincial health authority partners — Vancouver Coastal Health, the Provincial Health Services Authority, Fraser Health and First Nations Health Authority — Providence will plan, design and deliver services that span the spectrum of increasing needs for health care, from staying healthy, to getting better, to living well with chronic illness to end of life.

Patients Partners and Local Communities 

We are working closely with the individual patients and families we serve, as well as patient groups, residents, neighbourhoods, local communities, and the City of Vancouver to envision solutions for a healthy city and province.

We are including patients and patient representatives at all levels of our planning to ensure patient voices are always present and inform our decision making as we design new models to deliver innovative, excellent and person-centred compassionate care. Learn more about how we are engaging patients and local communities.

Providence is working with the City of Vancouver to ensure that planning for the new St. Paul’s Hospital and Health Campus aligns with the City’s community, social, economic, transportation, emergency management, healthy city and sustainability plans and policies.

Indigenous Host Nations, Organizations and Patients 

Providence is committed to the process of Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples and it is embedded in everything we do. Our vision is to make St. Paul’s Hospital the place of choice for Indigenous families to welcome their new beginnings, where their experiences are grounded in respect, dignity and cultural safety.

We strive to advance wellness, cultural safety and reconciliation through meaningful reciprocal partnerships with sovereign host Nations, and Indigenous patients, residents and Indigenous organizations in the design of the new hospital and health campus. Feedback from extensive engagement  has influenced key aspects of the hospital, from architecture and interior design to models of care. We are grateful to be receiving guidance from an Indigenous ethnobotanist from the Squamish Nation on the overall landscape plan to respect and restore Indigenous ecosystems and honour Host Nations territories. 

Incorporating naming in Host Nation languages serves as a powerful act of reconciliation by honouring and amplifying Indigenous languages, traditional cultures and histories that colonialism sought to erase. We have been honoured to work with hən̓ q̓ əmin̓ əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Sníchim language keepers to restore the presence of Indigenous languages into our everyday, including locations that acknowledge territory and directionality within the future Jim Pattison Health Campus.

Staff, Physicians and Researchers

The re-imagining of health care for the next several decades and beyond requires significant engagement with staff, physicians, medical staff, researchers and volunteers across Providence Health Care to determine what services our patients will require, in what settings and by which providers. 

We’re working closely with these partners to identify current care being delivered by St. Paul’s Hospital to our patient populations and local communities, what the future needs are, and how best to integrate new solutions into the broader community and primary care networks. 

St. Paul’s Hospital will continue to be a teaching and research hospital, training hundreds of UBC medical students, nursing students, and hundreds of other health sector professions. Integration of care, teaching and research, with emphasis on new knowledge rapidly translated into patient care solutions, will continue to be the focus of its research centres and specialized programs.

The new St. Paul’s hospital and health campus is designed to support the full integration of research, innovation and patient care, building on the successes building on the successes of new models of care developed at Foundry, BC Centre on Substance Use, and the Centre for Heart and Lung Innovation. This integration will drive innovation as multidisciplinary teams work side by side to transform early care concepts into real solutions for our patients.

Health Science and Academic Partners

Our health science and academic partners are an integral part of the planning process, helping us shape the education and research programs at the new St. Paul’s.

Foundation

St. Paul’s Foundation — and the generous donors who support it — is central to the future of the new St. Paul’s.