The agency that operates St. Paul’s Hospital downtown on Burrard Street unveiled plans Monday to replace the aging facility and build a new $1-billion “state of the art” hospital and health care campus on an 18.5-acre site adjacent to the city’s train station at Main and Terminal.

A day after plans were unveiled, there are fears one of Vancouver’s busiest intersections could get even more jammed when the new St. Paul’s Hospital opens up in a few years’ time.

St. Paul’s Hospital is leaving the West End, taking with it the only emergency room in Vancouver’s downtown core.

Opposition critic Spencer Chandra-Herbert says a plan to relocate St. Paul’s Hospital to a new site is a blow to his downtown constituents who depend on the historic care facility’s emergency services.

For more than a century, St. Paul’s Hospital has been the heartbeat of downtown Vancouver, globally known for cutting-edge health care, world-class research and modern medical miracles.

Health Minister Terry Lake made a good case Monday for the B.C. Liberal government’s dramatic reversal of position on the future of St. Paul’s Hospital

A massive footprint and a vacant plot of land near Main Street and Terminal Avenue will make St. Paul’s Hospital the envy of Canada and chart a course for the future design of health care delivery, board chairs for Providence and Vancouver Coastal told The Vancouver Sun Monday.

The decision to move St. Paul’s Hospital to the False Creek Flats area has taken Vancouver city officials by surprise just as they are beginning a new zoning plan for the area.

“Every day I hear from people about how glad they are that they have their own hospital here in Richmond.” Written by Natalie D. Meixner, president and CEO of the Richmond Hospital Foundation.

Dr. Julio Montaner, the director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, briefly met Pope Francis at a Wednesday audience in March.