Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre | |
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Vancouver Coastal Health | |
Geography | |
Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Coordinates | 49°15′40″N 123°07′28″W / 49.26111°N 123.12444°W |
Organization | |
Care system | Public Medicare (Canada) (MSP) |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | UBC Faculty of Medicine |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes |
Beds | 1900 |
Speciality | Bone Marrow Transplant and Leukemia, Epilepsy Surgery Program, Organ Transplant, Spinal Cord Injury |
History | |
Opened | 1993 |
Links | |
Website | http://www.vch.ca/ |
Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre (VHHSC) is an acute care hospital affiliated with the University of British Columbia and located in Vancouver, British Columbia. The VHHSC is the second largest hospital in Canada, with 1,900 beds and nearly 116,000 patients each year. VHHSC employs 9500 staff and utilizes 1000 volunteers. As of 2005, the hospital's annual budget is $463 million. It is managed by Vancouver Coastal Health.