Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) is a medical facility located in Kelowna

Kelowna

Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley, in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its name derives from a Okanagan language term for "grizzly bear"...

, British Columbia

British Columbia

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 and offers high level medical care in the Central Okanagan. Interior Health

Interior Health

Interior Health is the publicly funded healthcare provider in an area of the Canadian province of British Columbia.Interior Health was established as one of five geographically based health authorities in 2001 by the Government of British Columbia...

 is responsible for the operations of the hospital.

History

Kelowna General Hospital originally opened on August 2, 1908 with 19 beds on the land that was donated by Kelowna Land & Orchard Company.

2007 Hospital Expansion

Plans to expand Kelowna General Hospital were approved in 2007 to support growing population in the region.

• Various facilities upgrade and modernization
• 34,000 square foot Clinical Academic Campus Building, affiliated with the University of British Columbia
  University of British Columbia
  The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...
  
   Medical School.
• Six-storey 187000 square feet (17,372.9 m²) Centennial Patient Care Tower with new rooftop helipad and 30000 square feet (2,787.1 m²) emergency department is currently being constructed.
• Three-storey 84470 square feet (7,847.5 m²) East Pandosy Clinical Support Building
• 139,590 square feet Interior Heart and Surgical Centre (IHSC) will be constructed in the existing patient care tower with 15 operating rooms, allowing heart surgeries to take place in the interior of BC for the first time.