BC Cancer is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority in British Columbia , Canada.
20-884: BC Cancer's first cancer treatment centre (then known as the British Columbia Cancer Institute) officially opened in Vancouver on November 5, 1938. BC Cancer operates six regional cancer centres (in Abbotsford , Kelowna, Prince George, Surrey, Vancouver and Victoria) and the BC Cancer Research Centre , with departments in Vancouver and in Victoria . All radiotherapy services in British Columbia are provided by
40-558: A consortium of companies including Sodexo , under a 30-year contract. The design reduced energy costs and environmental features that earned the hospital designation as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold by the Canada Green Building Council . ARHCC was the first P3 infrastructure project for the province's newly created agency Partnerships BC . As a new model for BC public infrastructure,
60-515: A severe injury or episode of illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery from surgery. In medical terms, care for acute health conditions is the opposite from chronic care, or longer-term care . Acute care services are generally delivered by teams of health care professionals from a range of medical and surgical specialties. Acute care may require a stay in a hospital emergency department , ambulatory surgery center , urgent care centre or other short-term stay facility, along with
80-627: Is a 300-bed Canadian health care facility in the City of Abbotsford, British Columbia that houses the acute care Abbotsford Regional Hospital (ARH) operated by Fraser Health and the regional cancer facility (Abbotsford Centre) operated by the BC Cancer Agency . ARHCC opened in 2008 as: It is also the city's largest worksite in terms of number of employees. The facility offers both inpatient and outpatient services to residents of Abbotsford and regional services to other communities in
100-554: Is the beneficiary of major fundraising events. The Workout to Conquer Cancer is a 31-day challenge to move every day in May while fundraising. The Tour de Cure is an annual cycling event that raises funds for the BC Cancer Foundation to support cancer research and patient care programs. The event takes place in British Columbia, and participants of all skill levels can choose to ride different routes of varying distances. It
120-476: Is the fundraising partner of BC Cancer. Established in 1938, the BC Cancer Foundation is an independent charitable organization that raises funds to advance research innovation and accelerate access to world-class care for all residents of the province of British Columbia . All donations to the BC Cancer Foundation stay in British Columbia to make a direct impact on residents in every corner of
140-853: Is the largest cycling fundraiser in the province. The inaugural Tour de Cure event was held virtually in August 2021 due to the pandemic , and helped raise over $ 5.5 million for the BC Cancer Foundation. In 2022, the event was held in-person for the first time at Chilliwack Heritage Park, raising $ 6.3 million with over 1100 cyclists attending. In 2023, 2,000 riders will be participating in the two-day event, which will take place on August 26 and 27 from Cloverdale to Hope . Notable corporate sponsors teams include Wheaton Precious Metals , KMPG , Royal Bank of Canada , Harbour Air , CTV , Ledcor , Deloitte , and RE/MAX . The Foundation has offices in six of BC Cancer's regional centres: Abbotsford, Surrey, Kelowna, Victoria, Vancouver and Prince George. On October 29, 2024,
160-704: The Fraser Valley Regional Hospital District . MSA Hospital was closed and inpatients transported to ARHCC on opening day, August 24, 2008. At 60,000 square metres, the 300-bed ARHCC is almost three times the physical size of the 188-bed MSA facility. The opening ceremony occurred in September 2008. Dignitaries included Premier of British Columbia Gordon Campbell , Health Minister George Abbott and Abbotsford Mayor George Ferguson. Patient volumes increased after opening in part due to residents of nearby communities checking out
180-491: The 'Cottage' Hospital opened with a mere 14 beds. Eventually, as Abbotsford and its environs began to grow, a new hospital was needed, and so the Abbotsford-Matsqui-Sumas Hospital opened on 28 February 1953. Despite renovations and upgrades, advocacy for the creation of the now current hospital began two decades prior to its 2008 opening. The current ARHCC was a state-of-the-art replacement for
200-587: The BC Cancer Foundation announced the discontinuation of the event, citing increased costs, reduced revenue, and external risks, including extreme climate events and unpredictable weather that pose safety concerns. Over its 16-year history, the event generated more than $ 131 million in gross revenue for cancer research. 49°15′44″N 123°07′03″W / 49.26222°N 123.11750°W / 49.26222; -123.11750 ( BC Cancer ) Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre ( ARHCC )
220-793: The BC Cancer, as well as a majority of chemotherapy services. BC Cancer works with local health authorities across the province to provide cancer clinics in areas remote from the six main cancer centres, to cover rural British Columbia and the Yukon . In 2000, the agency partnered with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to create the Chinese Women's Health Project that provides culturally competent outreach programs to increase cervical cancer screening rates among this population. The BC Cancer Foundation
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#1732776660203240-529: The P3 approach attracted criticism from groups such as Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives . In the end, ARHCC was built on time and on budget ($ 355 million for construction and equipment) and the Auditor General of British Columbia assured the P3 approach would benefit government by $ 39 million over 30 years. Fraser Valley taxpayers contributed $ 71.3 million to construction and equipment costs through
260-850: The Special Commission of Inquiry into Acute Care Services in NSW Public Hospitals", known as The Garling Report , documented a series of high-profile medical controversies in the New South Wales public hospital system, and issued over one hundred recommendations that stimulated considerable discussion and controversy. A federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) "requires most hospitals to provide an examination and needed stabilizing treatment, without consideration of insurance coverage or ability to pay, when
280-541: The assistance of diagnostic services, surgery, or follow-up outpatient care in the community. Hospital-based acute inpatient care typically has the goal of discharging patients as soon as they are deemed healthy and stable. Acute care settings include emergency department, intensive care, coronary care, cardiology, neonatal intensive care, and many general areas where the patient could become acutely unwell and require stabilization and transfer to another higher dependency unit for further treatment. The 2009 "Final Report of
300-468: The eastern Fraser Valley ( Mission , Chilliwack , Hope , etc.) Fraser Health's Abbotsford Regional Hospital provides community hospital services to Abbotsford residents and regional services to about 330,000 residents of the eastern Fraser Valley. These services include: The cancer centre portion of the building is independently operated by the BC Cancer Agency as the Abbotsford Centre,
320-471: The fifth regional centre in the province, which was created to reduce waits and travel for residents of the eastern Fraser Valley who otherwise would have to travel to centres in Surrey or Vancouver for treatment. The Abbotsford Centre offers a full range of cancer control services, including: The current hospital has had two forerunners, with the first being opened on 18 April 1922. This hospital, called
340-467: The growing Fraser Valley community. After Gordon Campbell was elected as Premier of British Columbia in 2001, his local cabinet ministers Michael de Jong , John van Dongen and Mission MLA Randy Hawes advocated for construction of a new, larger hospital and addition of a regional cancer centre using a public-private partnership (P3) model. Design, construction and facility maintenance services are provided by private partner Access Health Abbotsford,
360-508: The modern facility and continued population growth in the region. At times, hospital congestion result in complaints about patients being cared for in stretchers in hallways. Property adjacent to ARHCC was used by non-profit societies to build three facilities titled the Dave Lede Campus of Care: Acute care Acute care is a branch of secondary health care where a patient receives active but short-term treatment for
380-415: The obsolete MSA (Matsqui-Sumas-Abbotsford) General Hospital which was built in 1953 and was criticized as undersized by the time of its last major renovation in 1980. The community served by MSA grew substantially in recent decades and the three districts amalgamated to form the City of Abbotsford after a plebiscite in 1995. By the turn of the century, replacement of MSA Hospital was a political issue for
400-515: The province. Some of the achievements include: discovering and deploying the first effective prevention strategy for ovarian cancer, being the first cancer centre to effectively treat a patient based on the DNA of their cancer, and launching Canada’s first province-wide lung cancer screening program. The Foundation has offices in six of BC Cancer's regional centres: Abbotsford, Surrey, Kelowna, Victoria, Vancouver and Prince George. The BC Cancer Foundation
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