Plans to bring a new state of the art Intensive Care Unit and emergency department to GR Baker Memorial Hospital have been approved.
Premier John Horgan was alongside Health Minister Adrian Dix in Quesnel to announce the approval of the plan today.
That plan was submitted in November of 2018 as part of redevelopment planning that had been on-going since 2014.
As part of the plan, the new emergency department will feature a triage area, two examination rooms, a trauma and resuscitation room, isolation and treatment room, and a psychiatric observation room.
Sharing the same space as that department, the ICU will be expanded to 5 rooms from the current 4, and will add a family waiting area.
In total the project will cost 27 million dollars, which will be split between Northern Health and the Cariboo-Chilcotin Hospital District.
Construction is expected to start later this year and wrap up in 2021.
