YOUR HOSPITALS
YOUR HOSPITALS
The Victoria Hospitals Foundation enables donations to all area of care at Royal Jubilee and Victoria General hospitals
Royal Jubilee Hospital
Royal Jubilee Hospital
Vancouver Island’s oldest and largest hospital, Royal Jubilee Hospital (RJH) provides comprehensive healthcare to all Island residents.
With over 4,300 staff and physicians and sprawling across 37 acres in the heart of Victoria, RJH serves over 120,000 patients annually, providing comprehensive hospital and emergency care along with teaching services to medical students. Royal Jubilee Hospital is also the Island’s referral centre for burn, cancer, cardiac, mental health, renal, respiratory, and vascular treatment.
“‘If you were coming from anywhere else, we would take you on as a patient—but you live on Vancouver Island, and their cardiac teams are just as good as we are’… That’s what I was told at the Cleveland Clinic—one of the most renowned cardiac centres in the world.”
– Gerald Hartwig, grateful patient and donor
RJH Is Home To:
RJH Is Home To:
- Cardiac Centre Of Excellence – Royal Jubilee Hospital is home to one of the finest cardiac programs in the country, recognized internationally for continued innovation. The more than 200,000 Vancouver Island residents who require cardiac assessment annually can rest assured knowing this world-class care is available close to home.
- Mental Health Services – The Archie Courtnall Centre provides Psychiatric Emergency Services for patients with mental health and addiction challenges. Those requiring a longer stay are transferred to an inpatient unit in the first two floors of the Patient Care Centre, where there’s also a dedicated Seniors Mental Health Unit. To support patients and families living in our community, mental health services are also available on an outpatient basis through the hospital’s Eric Martin Pavilion.
- Specialized Burn Unit – Located on the seventh floor of the Patient Care Centre, this is the Island’s centre for treating patients with burns and complex wound-care.
- Island Renal Unit – At Royal Jubilee Hospital lies the main dialysis centre for kidney patients on Vancouver Island.
- The All Nations Healing Room – A culturally safe and healing environment designed with input from First Nations’ elders.
Victoria General Hospital
Victoria General Hospital
On the leading-edge of health care every day, Victoria General Hospital (VGH) is core for Vancouver Island serving more than 117,000 patients annually.
With over 2,300 staff and physicians, VGH, located in the Victoria suburb of View Royal, provides comprehensive and emergency care. It is also Vancouver Island’s centre for maternity, pediatric, women’s health, trauma, and neuroscience treatment. It continues to push boundaries, providing the most innovative care available on the Island.
“When I was first diagnosed, friends encouraged me to seek other options in Vancouver, Toronto, or even the U.S. But there was no need. The technology, the expertise, the compassion—it’s all here, at Royal Jubilee and Victoria General hospitals.”
– Gerald Kersten, grateful patient and donor
VGH Is Home To:
VGH Is Home To:
- State-Of-The-Art Trauma Centre – If you have a serious accident, there’s a good chance you will be treated at Victoria General Hospital. Major trauma patients from across Vancouver Island are transferred here by helicopter or ambulance. The emergency department has state-of-the-art isolation rooms and a decontamination area specifically designed for managing pandemics and severe outbreaks.
- Specialized Neuroscience Unit– Victoria General Hospital operates a regional Stroke Program, and the Stroke Rapid Assessment Unit, two specialized teams that provide world-class stroke care in minimal time, often entirely circumnavigating effects of these potentially devastating events. VGH is also home to Western Canada’s first neuro-robotics program, offering brain and spine surgeries with optimal precision.
- Regional Maternity and Pediatrics Centre – VGH cares for Vancouver Island’s littlest patients. Not only the regional delivery centre for newborns, VGH is also home to a dedicated neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) to provide world-class care for critically ill and injured children. Less than 1% of pediatric patients have to be transferred to the mainland.
- Women’s Health Program – Alongside obstetrics and maternity services, VGH is also home to the Island’s most advanced gynecology and breast cancer services. Innovations like surgical robotics and MOLLI wire-free breast screening technology set Victoria General Hospital’s women’s health program apart and provide Island women with more equitable, minimally invasive care.
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