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Fraser Health’s Regional and Community Hospitals serve a population of over two million people. As the largest health authority in British Columbia, Fraser Health continues to experience significant growth and expansion. The hospitals listed below offer a range of opportunities for both elective and selected core residency rotations. Royal Columbian Hospital and Surrey Memorial Hospital serve as the program’s primary teaching sites and have recently undergone substantial clinical expansions and facility enhancements to support high-quality patient care, education, and training.

 


Integrated Health Service Area – North

Integrated Health Service Area North serves a population of more than 500,000 people north of the Fraser River serving the communities of Anmore, Belcarra, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Maple Ridge, New Westminster, Pitt Meadows, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody.

 

Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster is a Clinical Academic Campus of the UBC Faculty of Medicine and a teaching hospital. RCH is only 15 minutes from Vancouver, and is on the Skytrain Line. RCH has completed numerous major redevelopments and expansions in the last few years, including a new and unique Mental Health and Substance Use centre which opened in 2020 and the Jim Pattison Acute Care Tower, where the new Psychiatry Emergency is located, which opened in May 2026.


Burnaby Hospital is a community hospital in Burnaby. It has seen recent redevelopment which includes a new mental health inpatient unit and larger Emergency Department which opened in March 2026.


Eagle Ridge Hospital is a community hospital in Port Moody. Expansion of the Emergency Department was completed in 2022. As a non-designated facility, it works in partner with Royal Columbian Hospital for psychiatric services.


Ridge Meadows Hospital is a community hospital in Maple Ridge.


Virtual Psychiatry Unit is a unit where patients are treated remotely in their own homes by an interdisciplinary team. This program was launched in 2022 and has been expanded to include all communities across Fraser Health. VPU is part of the Hospital-at-Home program.


Integrated Health Service Area – South

Integrated Health Service Area South serves a population of more than 860,000 people south of the Fraser River serving the communities of Delta, Langley, the Township of Langley, Surrey and White Rock.

 

Surrey Memorial Hospital and Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre is a UBC Faculty of Medicine Affiliated Regional Campus and teaching hospital located in Surrey. SMH is only 25 minutes from Vancouver, and is on the Skytrain line. Construction of a greatly expanded Psychiatric Emergency Department and a new Clinical Academic Campus of the UBC Faculty of Medicine completed in 2014 and the addition of a Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Stabilization Unit in 2017. 


DH_bannerDelta Hospital is a community hospital located in Delta. As a non-designated facility, it does not have an inpatient psychiatry unit, but psychiatry services are provided in the Emergency Department and in the community.


Peach Arch Hospital is a community hospital in White Rock. Expansion of it’s Emergency Department, which saw the addition of a mental health zone, was completed in 2022.


Langley Memorial Hospital is a community hospital in Langley. The Emergency Department was expanded in 2021 which included adding a mental health zone.


New Surrey Hospital and BC Cancer Centre is currently under construction in the Cloverdale neighbourhood of Surrey. Construction is set to be completed in 2029 and the hospital opened in 2030. This hospital will relieve pressure on Surrey Memorial Hospital.


Integrated Health Service Area – East

Integrated Health Service Area East serves a population of more than 300,000 people in the East Fraser Valley serving the communities of Abbotsford, Agassiz, Chilliwack, the District of Kent, Harrison Hot Springs, Hope and Mission.

 

Abbotsford Regional Hospital is a regional hospital in Abbotsford. Expansion of the Emergency Department completed in June 2021. This project added a dedicated, low-stimulus mental health and substance use zone, crisis stabilization spaces, and relocated the psychiatric clinical decision unit to improve privacy and care coordination.


Mission Memorial Hospital is a community hospital in Mission. Emergency Department expansion is currently underway, slated for completion in 2027. This expansion integrates a dedicated private assessment room for patients experiencing mental health and psychiatric concerns.


Chilliwack General Hospital is a community hospital in Chilliwack.


Fraser Canyon Hospital is a community hospital in Hope.


 

 

 

 

In the Fraser region, adult mental health needs are met by:

  • 12 acute care hospitals and 1 virtual unit
  • 12 community mental health centres
  • 14 Urgent and Primary Care centres
  • 3 tertiary care facilities
  • 3 community residential short stay and treatment psychiatric facilities
  • long-term supported housing

Children and adolescents are served by:

  • 2 acute adolescent inpatient units
  • 1 crisis stabilization unit
  • 5 Foundry locations
  • crisis response teams
  • community mental health teams

Older adults are served by:

  • 1 acute older adult inpatient unit
  • 12 community mental health centres
  • tertiary geriatric specialized residential unit
  • behavioural stabilization unit
  • shared care team

Additional programs and services:

  • eating disorder programs
  • developmental disability mental health services
  • neuropsychiatry and neuropsychology
  • early psychosis intervention programs
  • reproductive mental health services
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