B.C. premier in Surrey to visit construction site for new Cloverdale hospital<\/p>\n
Published 5:30 pm Friday, March 6, 2026<\/p>\n
B.C. premier David Eby was in Cloverdale to mark what he called a \u201chalfway milestone\u201d for the new hospital and cancer centre.<\/p>\n
Eby told media present March 6 was the day they began pouring the concrete for the fifth floor of the hospital, which marks about halfway through the construction process of the building itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last time I was here, this was a big hole in the ground,\u201d the premier said. \u201cSo it\u2019s very exciting to see this building coming up out of the ground and to see the momentum that\u2019s taking place. From the dirt to today has been 14 months since these crews are working at an incredible pace.\u201d<\/p>\n
The premier started his tour at the new hospital site in a large tented structure that houses mock-ups of the hospital rooms. He said trades teams work in those rooms with clinicians, doctors, nurses, and administrators to get the design right. This is done to ensure rooms are crafted and equipment is installed in a well-planned way for families, patients, and staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that everything that is mocked up in there, and all the systems are arranged perfectly,\u201d he explained. \u201cSo, when they\u2019re built in the building, they\u2019re only built once. It ensures efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said leading edge technology in the building will help shorten patient stays. This will allow them to receive more care outside the hospital walls.<\/p>\n
\u201cBasically, creating another virtual hospital out in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the cancer center in Cloverdale will be the most modern one in the province and one of the largest. It will also have a cyclotron, one of only two in B.C.<\/p>\n
It will be \u201can ultra-modern cancer centre, coupled up with a high-tech hospital, that expands capacity beyond the walls of the building into the community and allows patients to move through their healing journey faster.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eby said Fraser Health, Ellis Don, and the trades teams on site have done \u201cremarkable work\u201d to control site costs and to hit their budget targets.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis project is on budget and we are counting on them to bring this project in on budget as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new hospital will have 168 beds, including medical and surgical beds, high acuity beds, and medical oncology beds. It will have a second emergency department for Surrey with 55 treatment spaces and access to specialists through virtual technologies.<\/p>\n
The B.C. Cancer Centre will have a 50-room oncology ambulatory care unit, 54 chemotherapy treatment spaces, and room for six linear accelerators for radiation therapy. The cancer centre will be able to perform about 100,000 treatments per year.<\/p>\n
The Cloverdale hospital will be one of the first fully electric hospitals in Canada.<\/p>\n
The new hospital was originally expected to cost $1.66 billion, but that number ballooned to $2.88 billion. The completion date for the project was pushed back to 2029, from 2027, and it\u2019s expected to open to the public in 2030. The Provincial Government cited inflation and delays in the companies\u2019 abilities to get workers and materials to complete projects as factors in both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"B.C. premier in Surrey to visit construction site for new Cloverdale hospital Published 5:30 pm Friday, March 6,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-519602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}