On September 25, 2007, the Interior Health Authority released its Request for Proposals for the Kelowna and Vernon Hospitals Project.
The public private partnership to design, build, finance and maintain the expansion of the Kelowna General Hospital and Vernon Jubilee Hospital is the largest health-care announcement in Okanagan history and will contribute to significant enhancements to patient care.
The expansion includes a new 16,200-square-metre outpatient hospital and quadrupled emergency department at Kelowna General Hospital, a new 12,000-square-metre diagnostic and treatment building at Vernon Jubilee Hospital. Kelowna General Hospital will also include the Interior's first-ever revascularization cardiac centre and a planned fourth site for the UBC Faculty of Medicine. The initial capital cost of the project is estimated to be $250 million.
Fasken Martineau David Little, Ann Madden, Andrew Jackson, and Paul Wilson are legal counsel to the Interior Health Authority.