Image: BC Health Minister Adrian Dix making an announcement in Victoria. / File / BC Govt. / Flickr

By Fraser Valley Today Staff

Healthcare

BC Health Minister to make long-term care announcement Monday in Chilliwack

Aug 19, 2024 | 2:00 AM

CHILLIWACK — With B.C.’s provincial election exactly two months away, Health Minister Adrian Dix is scheduled to make an announcement Monday (Aug. 19) afternoon in Chilliwack.

An advisory from the Ministry of Health was delivered to the media late last week, saying the minister would be making an announcement about long-term care services in the city.

No other details have been announced however it is known the government has had plans to develop a new long-term care facility near Chilliwack General Hospital, the site of the Monday announcement. Last fall the Fraser Health Authority announced it had acquired several properties near the hospital with a purpose to build a long-term facility.

Documents related to the sale suggest the facility would include 200 long-term care beds and that the facility would replace the 90 beds in the Bradley Centre at Chilliwack General Hospital. A business plan was expected to be submitted to the province in the spring of 2024.

Then in late February at a Fraser Valley Regional Hospital District Board meeting, it was learned the hospital district had committed funding towards a long-term care facility, although it did note that the province had not yet made the same commitment.

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Over the first half of August, Minister Dix has been busy making health service announcements, including the shortlist of groups vying for the job to oversee Richmond Hospital’s acute-care tower project, a plan to open an Urgent and Primary Care Centre in Williams Lake, and the approval of a business plan for a new patient-care tower at the University Hospital of Northern BC in Prince George.