Community Initiatives

Abbotsford Regional Hospital & Cancer Centre - Project Overview: www.abbotsfordhospitalandcancercentre.ca
The Abbotsford Hospital and Cancer Centre is planned as a state-of-the-art 300-bed replacement for the aging MSA acute care hospital in Abbotsford, and will provide enhanced and specialized health services to more than 150,000 people in the greater Abbotsford area, and up to 330,000 in the Fraser Valley region. The facility will be three times the size of the current MSA hospital, measuring approximately 60,000 square metres.

The hospital integrates a new cancer treatment centre that will be part of the provincial network operated by the BC Cancer Agency. The Cancer Centre in Abbotsford will provide specialized cancer services including radiation therapy, chemotherapy, surgical oncology, clinical trials, and supportive care, such as patient and family counseling, nutritional assessment, pain and symptom management and palliative care. Residents in the Fraser Valley currently have to drive elsewhere to access this care.

Mt. Lehman Exchange:  www.abbotsford.ca
The City of Abbotsford and the Ministry of Transportation have worked together as partners since 1999 to secure funding and develop the project to improve the Mt. Lehman Interchange. The City of Abbotsford is now home to 128,000 citizens and the area has seen tremendous commercial and residential development, particularly in the western region of the municipality. Growth of the Abbotsford International Airport and the Clearbrook Industrial Area have put additional pressure on the interchange and surrounding network of roads. Over 46,000 vehicles per day use this key interchange – the meeting point of traffic from Highway 1, Fraser Highway and the Abbotsford International Airport.

Project improvements include a full reconstruction of the interchange, upgrading of the Mt. Lehman/Fraser Highway intersection, a new arterial road connecting Fraser Highway with Old Yale Road (at Blue Jay Street) and improved access to and from Highway 1.