Every year, St. Paul’s Hospital provides excellent and compassionate care to more than 380,000 patients from throughout B.C. – including many of our most vulnerable and marginalized populations – as well as world-leading research and medical teaching initiatives that benefit many more locally, nationally and internationally.
Our populations of emphasis include:
- Cardio-Pulmonary Risks and Illness - St. Paul’s is world-renowned for its research on the often-linked diseases of the heart and lungs and offers cardiac and pulmonary services available nowhere else in the province. Home to B.C.’s Heart Centre, St. Paul’s provides heart transplants, mechanical hearts for patients with heart failure, breakthrough corrective heart procedures, cardiovascular disease prevention programs and internationally Read More...
- Mental Illness - St. Paul’s Mental Health Program provides a range of coordinated emergency, inpatient, ambulatory and provincial services for people with a serious mental illness. The program encompasses a Complex Pain Program, a groundbreaking provincial eating disorders program that serves the most complex cases in B.C., a Mental Health Wellness outpatient clinic, an outreach program for inner-city Read More...
- Renal (Kidney) Risks and Illness - St. Paul’s has B.C.’s largest comprehensive program for the treatment, management and prevention of kidney disease and failure. St. Paul’s performs 83,000 hemodialysis treatments annually at the hospital and six community dialysis units throughout the region – more than any other health provider in B.C. Our renal department is also currently piloting one of BC’s Read More...
- Specialized Needs in Aging - Providence Health Care, which operates St. Paul’s Hospital, is one of the largest single providers of elder care in Canada. More than 25 per cent of inpatients at St. Paul’s are 70 years or age or older. Programs specifically for seniors include a 37-bed inpatient unit focused on geriatric medicine, family practice and rehabilitation from Read More...
- Urban Health - As Vancouver’s downtown hospital, St. Paul’s is responsible for addressing the diverse needs of some of our city’s most complex medical and surgical conditions through programs including surgery, medicine, intensive care, palliative, maternity, highly specialized clinics, same-day surgery and emergency services. Read More...
To make a donation to one of these populations of emphasis or another area of the hospital, contact us for more information or indicate where you want to direct your gift when you make your donation.