Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre
| Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre | |
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| ARHCC Inc. | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Abbotsford, Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada |
| Coordinates | 49°02′18″N 122°18′56″W / 49.038332°N 122.315526°WCoordinates: 49°02′18″N 122°18′56″W / 49.038332°N 122.315526°W |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Public Medicare (Canada) (MSP) |
| Funding | Government hospital |
| Hospital type | Regional hospital |
| Network | Hospital: Fraser Health Cancer Centre: BC Cancer Agency |
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| Emergency department | Level II trauma center |
| Helipad | Yes |
| Beds | 300 |
| History | |
| Founded | Aug 24, 2008 |
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Hospital Cancer Centre |
| Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre (ARHCC) is a 300-bed Canadian health care facility in the City of Abbotsford, British Columbia that houses the acute care Abbotsford Regional Hospital (ARH) operated by Fraser Health and the regional cancer facility (Abbotsford Centre) operated by the BC Cancer Agency.
ARHCC opened in 2008 as:
It is also the city's largest worksite in terms of number of employees.
The facility offers both inpatient and outpatient services to residents of Abbotsford and regional services to other communities in the eastern Fraser Valley (Mission, Chilliwack, Hope, etc.)
Fraser Health's Abbotsford Regional Hospital provides community hospital services to Abbotsford residents and regional services to about 330,000 residents of the eastern Fraser Valley. These services include:
The cancer centre portion of the building is independently operated by the BC Cancer Agency as the Abbotsford Centre, the fifth regional centre in the province, which was created to reduce waits and travel for residents of the eastern Fraser Valley who otherwise would have to travel to centres in Surrey or Vancouver for treatment.
The Abbotsford Centre offers a full range of cancer control services, including:
Advocacy for the creation of the new hospital began two decades prior to its 2008 opening.
ARHCC was a state-of-the-art replacement for the obsolete MSA (Matsqui-Sumas-Abbotsford) General Hospital which was built in 1953 and was criticized as undersized by the time of its last major renovation in 1980. The community served by MSA grew substantially in recent decades and the three districts amalgamated to form the City of Abbotsford after a plebiscite in 1995. By the turn of the century, replacement of MSA Hospital was a political issue for the growing Fraser Valley community. After Gordon Campbell was elected as Premier of British Columbia in 2001, his local cabinet ministers Michael de Jong, John van Dongen and Mission MLA Randy Hawes advocated for construction of a new, larger hospital and addition of a regional cancer centre using a (P3) public-private partnership model.
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