British Columbia's Children's Hospital

B.C. Children's Hospital
Provincial Health Services Authority
Location in Vancouver
Geography
Location	4480 Oak Street Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6H 3N1
Coordinates	49°14′40″N 123°07′32″W / 49.244444°N 123.125556°W / 49.244444; -123.125556Coordinates: 49°14′40″N 123°07′32″W / 49.244444°N 123.125556°W / 49.244444; -123.125556
Organisation
Care system	Medicare
Hospital type	Tertiary Pediatric Care
Affiliated university	UBC Faculty of Medicine
Services
Emergency department	Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Centre
Helipad	TC LID: CAK7
History
Founded	1928
Links
Website	www.bcchildrens.ca
Other links	BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre

British Columbia Children's Hospital is a medical facility located in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority. It specializes in health care for patients from birth to age 16. It is also a teaching and research facility for children's medicine. The hospital also operates the Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children, which provides specialized services to children and youth with developmental disabilities aged birth to 19.

The hospital is adjacent to the B.C. Women's Hospital & Health Centre. Previously, the two were officially a single organization and were known as the Children's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia.

Working with the hospital and the community, the BC Children's Hospital Foundation raises funds to support and enhance the delivery of pediatric care in British Columbia. The Foundation provides funding to B.C. Children’s Hospital, as well as its sister facilities, the Child & Family Research Institute and Sunny Hill Health Centre, to support research into childhood diseases, the purchase of medical equipment, and a range of child health education and training programs.

B.C. Children’s Hospital's roots go back to the establishment of a fund for crippled children by the B.C. Women’s Institute in 1923. In 1928, Vancouver’s Crippled Children’s Hospital admitted its first patient at its Hudson Street location. In 1933, a new Crippled Children’s Hospital opened on West 59th Avenue. In 1947, it was renamed Children’s Hospital "to exemplify the growing awareness that children are not defined by their illnesses."

In 1977, ground was broken at the hospital's current location at West 28th Avenue and Oak Street, some time after the Children’s Hospital and the Health Centre for Children had agreed to the construction of a joint facility in 1964. Construction was completed in 1982 at a cost of $60 million. The 29,730 square-metre facility housed 250 acute care beds, an adolescent unit, a modern isolation facility, a rehabilitation unit, a 10-bed psychiatric unit and a 60-bed special care nursery.