The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Providence Health Care (PHC) provides leadership and innovation in the delivery of critical care, research and teaching. Our multidisciplinary team provides compassionate and respectful care to all our patients and their families. The ICU is staffed with an award winning team that was nationally recognized in 2006 with a 3M Award for their work in sepsis. We treat a wide variety of patients in a dynamic setting.Our clinicians are recognized as being world leaders in both the clinical setting as well as in research. Areas of clinical focus are in sepsis management, acute respiratory failure, renal failure and patients with multi-system organ failure.

The ICU provides care for various patients both at a tertiary/quaternary level and a community level. We accomplish this by having one ICU on two sites. St. Paul’s is a teaching hospital and Mount Saint Joseph is a community hospital that provides care to a culturally diverse group of patients.

Our facilities include capacity for:
• 19 ICU beds at St. Paul’s Hospital
• 6 ICU beds at Mount Saint Joseph

Nursing Excellence

We offer a challenging work experience with opportunities to learn and to enhance your skills. Our nurses are members of a team that includes doctors, respiratory therapists, social workers, physiotherapists, pharmacists,
dieticians, research coordinators and pastoral care workers. Our environment is supportive and we are known for our professionalism and humanity. St. Paul’s Hospital is an internationally recognized teaching hospital affiliated with the University of British Columbia, British Columbia Institute of
Technology and other teaching institutions. There is support provided by clinical nurse leaders, nurse educator and an operations leader.

Providence Health Care supports learning and specialty nursing education by assisting with the funding for nurses acquiring postgraduate critical care training.

Contact Us
If you want to see more about our highly skilled interdisciplinary team please email careers@providencehealth.bc.ca.