Construction on new Nanaimo ICU officially underway
NANAIMO — A brand new, multi-million dollar intensive care unit at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital is officially under construction.
Crews broke ground on Tuesday, Feb. 2 to kickstart the $41.57 million project to replace the existing, aging facility.
The new ICU is slated to hold 12 single-patient rooms and be around triple the size of the current ICU. Equipment and facilities including patient lifts, family consultation room and staff rest area are also included.
“We’ll have space for dialysis, breathing machines, for complex infusions of medications. All the complex services that you or I or our families might need if we’re really sick, that’s what this ICU can deliver,” Ben Williams, Island Health VP for medicine and quality, said.