Hospitals of Distinction: Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre adapts to changing technology
ike all hospital projects, this one took time, but when the 63,000-square-metre, $355-million, 300-bed Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre (ARHCC) welcomed its first patients on August 24, 2008, it had the distinction of being the first hospital in Canada to be built by a public-private partnership. Jeri Lynch, project manager for equipment and technical operations, says the change from old to new hospital was like moving from the Dark Ages to Star Trek.