Building a Healthier Future for the Cowichan Valley
The new Cowichan District Hospital – Quw’utsun Valley Hospital – located in the heart of the Cowichan Valley, will play a key role in advancing healthcare for our community. This state-of-the-art medical facility will feature cutting-edge technology and advanced equipment, empowering healthcare professionals to provide exceptional care to their patients.
Since the opening of the current hospital in 1967, our community has grown, and medical advancements have changed the way care is provided. The new hospital will improve patient outcomes, enhance safety, and support staff retention, while meeting the needs of a growing population.
To support this project, the Cowichan District Hospital Foundation launched a $20 million fundraising campaign to equip the new hospital with exceptional medical equipment.
Contributions can also support naming opportunities within the hospital, allowing donors to leave a lasting legacy in their name or in memory of a loved one.
This is a unique opportunity to help ensure our community has access to modern healthcare facilities for years to come. Join us in building a healthier future for the Cowichan Valley.
It’s more than a hospital.
This fall we are reminding the community that the new facility set to open on Bell McKinnon Road in Spring 2027 is more than a hospital. It’s the place you’ll go for an early diagnosis, for effective treatment, for reassurance, for care, to meet new family members for the first time, and possibly to say a last goodbye. Our hospital is at the very heart of our community, accessible and available to all. Donor dollars will put the best tools into the hands of our medical professionals so that they can provide the care that we all deserve.
We are close to our goal of $20 million to equip our new hospital with the latest technology to care for our community – we have $1.4 million left to raise. With your help we will fund:
- MRI machine
- CT scanner
- Ophthalmic laser
- Pediatric ventilators
- Mobile X-ray
- Cardiac monitors
- Ultrasounds
- Stealth navigator equipment for ENT
- Medical Imaging Ultrasound for Urology
- Surgical instruments
- +100s of other critical pieces of equipment
“The Foundation’s support for what we provide to the hospital is very important to us and the patients we serve. The more equipment we can have locally, the less people have to travel for certain specialty services.”
-Dr. Graham Blackburn, MD CCFP
Chief of Staff & Site Medical Director, Cowichan District Hospital
Your New Hospital – Facts & Figures
- More than three times larger than the current facility with capacity for 204 beds (currently CDH can operate 148 beds).
- Emergency Department will increase from 17 spaces to 45, with two trauma bays, rapid access and discharge space, fast-track streaming space, and a dedicated acute psychiatric zone with two seclusion rooms.
- Seven operating rooms, an increase of three, with one dedicated to C-sections, as well as increased CT scanning capacity and built-in MRI. Additionly, nine surgical procedure rooms, an increase of six.
- Up-to-date mental health services with a 20-bed inpatient psychiatry unit with access to secure outdoor space and a four-bed psychiatric intensive care unit.
- New birthing unit with a capacity for 10 obstetrics beds and a nursery for families and new parents.
- Pediatric Unit will have eight beds, double the pediatric beds in the current hospital, helping families avoid a drive to Nanaimo or Victoria.
