Sep 12, 2024 – Nick Laba/North Shore News

Along the glossy halls of the newly built Paul Myers Tower at Lions Gate Hospital, all the rooms will only hold one patient bed.

This isn’t because the rooms are too small – averaging 215 square feet – or to give the acute-care facility an air of luxury.

The decision to have 108 beds in private rooms at the cutting-edge institution is reflective of a new design standard that aims to improve patient comfort and health, but also boost efficiency at the busy North Vancouver hospital.

On a Wednesday morning tour of the Paul Myers Tower, PCL Constructors West Coast and members of Vancouver Coastal Health gave a first look of the nearly completed building to local MLAs Bowinn Ma and Susie Chant, who were joined by B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix.

Occupying the site of the former Activation Building/North Vancouver General Hospital, the six-storey building has eight new operating rooms, as well as a pre-operative and post-operative care area including anesthesia intervention and isolation rooms.

Construction of the new hospital expansion broke ground in 2021, with an anticipated opening date in March 2025.

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