World-Class Patient Care and Medical Innovation in Women’s Health
B.C. Women's Hospital & Health Centre: Specialized Provincial Resource
B.C. Women's Hospital & Health Centre, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), is a Canadian hospital located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, specializing in women's health programs. It is the only facility in Western Canada dedicated to the health of women, newborns and families, and is the largest maternity hospital in the country. It is a teaching hospital and major provincial health care resource, and is a key component in women's health research. Only 43 percent of patients reside in the Lower Mainland, while 57 per cent of patients live in other areas of B.C. With many specialized women's health services not available anywhere else in the province, BC Women's treats over 68,000 patients each year.
Institutional Statistics and Capacity
BC Women's employs more than 1,000 full and part-time staff. More than 450 doctors work at the hospital. The following data highlights the scale of services provided:
| Service Metric | Annual Figure / Capacity |
|---|---|
| Babies delivered | Approximately 7,200 |
| In-patient visits | More than 42,500 |
| Outpatients treated | Over 19,000 |
| Neonatal Intensive Care | 1,200 high risk premature + sick newborns |
| Antepartum/postpartum beds | 85 (including 29 high risk beds) |
Brigham and Women’s Hospital: Vision and Patient-Centered Care
Patients are at the center of everything we do. Each day, we strive to create an environment that embraces both compassionate care and cutting-edge technology, ensuring patients at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and across our Mass General Brigham community feel cared for, safe, and supported. Your generosity helps us uphold this mission by supporting the places, spaces, and technologies that provide an exceptional care environment and experience. The Brigham symbolizes comfort and caring. Your gift will allow us to invest in the places, spaces, and technologies that ensure an unparalleled care experience for our patients today and well into the future.
Infrastructure and Landscape Vision
One of the most prominent hospitals in the country, Brigham and Women’s Hospital is embedded in Boston’s Longwood Medical Center district. President Elizabeth Nabel’s initiative to bring nature into the hospital and provide patients, families, and staff with the restorative power of landscape is the driving vision of the project. The driving vision for the landscape vision plan was the initiative of bringing nature into the campus to provide patients, families, and staff with the restorative power of landscape. Phased projects include rooftop and on-structure landscapes of a new clinical and research tower, streetscape and hospital entrance zones, retrofitting existing roofs with landscapes, and creation of healing and patient gardens.
Expansion and Modernization
The expansion of Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital bolsters our ability to provide world-class care and meet the evolving needs of patients in a welcoming, state-of-the-art space. Marking a turning point in Faulkner’s 100-plus-year history, this major expansion includes:
- A new five-story building with 78 private inpatient rooms
- The expansion of Faulkner’s endoscopy and radiology suites
Celebrating Women in Medicine and Science
In honor of Women’s History Month, historical photos from the BWH Archives feature women physicians, scientists, healthcare workers and staff. Dr. Olive Watkins Smith, PhD (1901-1983), the first woman to attain a PhD in Biochemistry from the Division of Medical Sciences at HMS, was the Director of the Fearing Research Laboratory at the Free Hospital for Women. Dr. Ruth Kundsin, pioneering microbiologist, worked at Peter Bent Brigham, now Brigham and Women’s Hospital, for 51 years and was the hospital epidemiologist from 1970 to 1982. Furthermore, Carrie Hall founded the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital School of Nursing in 1912 and formalized education for nurses. She expanded classroom education, developing a three-year curriculum with lectures on pharmacology, basic sciences, practical nursing and surgical and medical disease.
Opportunities for Legacy and Giving
Create a lasting legacy and name a space for you, your loved ones, or a caregiver. Gifts to name spaces help us invest in cutting-edge technologies that serve patients and their loved ones. A monthly gift is an investment in medical innovation, research, and training. These are just a few of the many places, spaces, and technologies that have been, or are still available to be, named on our campuses.