Interior Health has taken the next step towards $750,000 in improvements to the East Kootenay Regional Hospital pediatric unit with the selection of Ledcor Construction Ltd. of Kelowna as the general contractor for construction.
Ledcor was selected through a competitive tender process for Interior Health pre-qualified contractors that was initiated in November.
Currently, the two-bed pediatric unit is part of the hospital’s third floor medical unit. This project will see a new enhanced pediatric unit located next to EKRH’s maternity/neo-natal unit on the second floor (in the old ICU space), creating a combined maternal child unit.
The new two-bed pediatric unit will be an updated, more kid-friendly space with separate rooms and bathrooms for each patient.
The Ministry of Health is funding $450,000 of the project, with the remaining $300,000 investment coming from the Kootenay East Regional Hospital District.
Construction will begin early in 2017 and IH expect the new pediatric unit to be operational by the summer.