Fraser Health

History

Fraser Health was created in December 2001 as part of a province-wide restructuring of health authorities by the then-new BC Liberal government of Premier Gordon Campbell. It is the merger of three former health regions: Simon Fraser Health Region (SFHR), South Fraser Health Region, and the Fraser Valley Health Region (FVHR).

SFHR had been formed in 1996 by the merger of the Fraser–Burrard Hospital Society (Royal Columbian Hospital, Eagle Ridge Hospital and Ridge Meadows Hospital) with the Burnaby Health Region (Burnaby Hospital) and the extended care facilities operated by the Pacific Health Care Society (Queen's Park Care Centre and Fellburn Care Centre).

Demographics

It has 29,000 employees and serves the region from Boston Bar in the Fraser Canyon down the Fraser River Valley to the Vancouver suburbs of Burnaby and Delta. It is the largest health authority by population in British Columbia (BC). Its 1.9 million residents include approximately 62,000 Indigenous people associated with 32 First Nation bands and 5 Métis chartered communities.

Fraser Health provides health care services for the following communities:

Facilities and services

Services provided by Fraser Health include primary health care, community home care, mental health and addictions, acute medical, and surgical services.

Fraser Health has 13 acute-care hospitals including 3 regional hospitals and 9 community hospitals as well as an outpatient care and surgery centre.

Regional hospitals

• Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre
• Royal Columbian Hospital
• Surrey Memorial Hospital

Community hospitals

• Burnaby Hospital
• Chilliwack General Hospital
• Delta Hospital
• Eagle Ridge Hospital
• Fraser Canyon Hospital
• Langley Memorial Hospital
• Mission Memorial Hospital
• Peace Arch Hospital
• Ridge Meadows Hospital

Outpatient care and surgery centre

• Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre

According to the Chilliwack Progress in 2019, home-support clients within Fraser Health would have their care directly managed by the health authority. |- ! Board chair !! Chief executive officer !Date |- | Barry Forbes|| Lynda Cranston | |- | || Michael Marchbank (interim) | |- | Keith Purchase|| Bob Smith | |- | Gordon Barefoot|| Keith Anderson (interim) | |- | David Mitchell|| Nigel Murray | |- | Wynne Powell (interim) || David Ostrow (interim) | |- | Karen Matty || Michael Marchbank | |- | Jim Sinclair || Victoria Lee | |} --

References

References

1. "Fraser Health announces new president and chief executive officer".
2. "In the last year, Fraser Health postponed 2,300 operations on day of surgery". CKNW.
3. Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia. (March 2017). "Health Funding Explained 2". Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia.
4. . (2018). ["About Fraser Health"](https://www.fraserhealth.ca/about-us/about-fraser-health). *Fraser Health Authority*.
5. (2019-03-31). "Fraser Health home support will soon be provided in-house".