At noon Sunday, Premier Gordon Campbell‘s office confirmed what everyone in Kelowna knew last week. At 2 p.m. today, Campbell will mark the start of construction on Kelowna General Hospital‘s new $170-million
patient-care tower. He will be joined in the ground-breaking ceremony and unveiling of a design model at 2268 Pandosy St. by Health Services Minister George Abbott and MLAs Sindi Hawkins, Al Horning, Rick Thorpe and Bill Barisoff.At 10:30 this morning, Campbell, Abbott and Okanagan-Vernon MLA Tom Christensen will officially break ground on the new Vernon Jubilee Hospital patient-care tower and unveil a design model of the new tower there.
The premier is also expected to attend a party organized by the Kelowna-Mission Liberal Constituency Association at 3 p.m. at the Eldorado Hotel. Insiders are predicting Kelowna-Mission MLA Sindi Hawkins will announce her retirement. That will give the association enough time to prepare for the provincial election next spring. The six-storey tower at KGH will have a new emergency department, renal dialysis stations, five operating rooms, space for up to 32 new medical students, an outpatient cardiac clinic, space for day procedures like scoping and a physical plant. The Central Okanagan regional hospital district will contribute $29 million to build two of the floors, which will be shelled in for future use. The government has promised to fund up to 150 new in-patient beds on those floors by 2019. Infusion Health, a five-company consortium, will build the tower in front of the main hospital. The building is expected to open by 2010.
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