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Royal Jubilee Hospital

Hospital in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Summary

Hospital in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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name	Royal Jubilee Hospital
org_group	Island Health
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pushpin_map_caption	Location in British Columbia
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location	Victoria
region
state	British Columbia
country	Canada
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healthcare	Medicare
type	General
speciality
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emergency	Yes
affiliation	University of British Columbia
beds	500
founded	May 20, 1890
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Royal Jubilee Hospital is a 500-bed general hospital in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, located about 3 km east of the city centre, in the Jubilee neighbourhood (itself named after the hospital).

Overview

Its name commemorates the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. Founded in 1890, Royal Jubilee was Victoria's main hospital until 1983, when an expanded Victoria General Hospital re-opened in the suburban municipality of View Royal. Royal Jubilee offers critical-care, surgery, diagnostics, emergency facilities and other patient programs. It has a particular focus on cardiac medicine.

In 2007, the British Columbia government announced that it would expand and renovate the hospital, increasing the number of beds to 500 and replacing many buildings. The new 500-bed patient care centre (PCC) was opened to the public in early 2011.

Begbie Hall==

Begbie Hall, a three-storey former nurses' residence at the hospital, was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1989 to commemorate the growing professionalism of nursing in the early 20th century and the contribution of nurses to health care in Canada. Today, Begbie Hall is used for administrative offices, and contains the Woodward Theatre for meetings. The Woodward Theatre was apparently the original cafeteria for the resident nurses. The Island Health Board of Directors removed the name Begbie from the building in 2021.

Pemberton Memorial Operating Room

The octagonal Pemberton Memorial Operating Room, completed in 1896, was designated a National Historic Site in 2005. It is an octagonal brick operating room; a rare surviving example of a late 19th-century surgical facility from the period when hospitals were transitioning from primarily charitable to scientific institutions.

References

(1986). "The story of the B.C. Electric Railway Company". Whitecap Books.
[http://www.victoriahf.ca/milestones.htm Victoria Hospitals Foundation: Milestones]
[http://www.orthosurgery.ubc.ca/teachinghospitals.html University of British Columbia, Department of Orthopaedics: Vancouver Island Health Authority]
[http://www.multimedia.gov.bc.ca/EN/new_royal_jubilee_hospital/ Premier Gordon Campbell's Video Gallery: New Royal Jubilee Hospital]
{{CRHP. 1163. Begbie Hall. October 23, 2011
Personal anecdote, current employee. Needs to be confirmed. April, 2014.
"Comment: Taking action toward reconciliation at Island Health".
{{CRHP. 12975. Pemberton Memorial Operating Room. January 28, 2012

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