Vancouver Coastal Health is a 10,000+ person government health system running hospitals, primary care, and community services across the lower mainland. The tech stack mirrors a healthcare organization in mid-transition: legacy clinical systems (Cerner, PACS, RIS) sit alongside cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Databricks), with heavy reliance on business software (Workday, PeopleSoft, iCIMS) and data tools (Spark, SQL, Python). Hiring velocity is steady across 1,480 open roles, concentrated almost entirely in healthcare staffing (1,376 positions), with minimal engineering (12) or data (3) — typical for a public healthcare org where care delivery dominates operational priorities.
Tech Stack 28 technologies
What Vancouver Coastal Health Is Building
◆Challenges
- Implementing minimum nurse to patient ratios
- Managing violence and aggression in healthcare
- Complex care coordination
- Transitioning patients from acute to community care
- Improving patient flow
- Reducing repeated contact with acute care
- Safety and quality of care
- Complex mental health and substance use needs
- Meeting nurse to patient ratio requirements
- Expanding cardiology program
▲Active Projects
- Assertive community treatment (act)
- New acute care tower
- Citywide acute home based treatment program
- Ubc cardiology research and education programs
- Complex mhsu tertiary housing initiative
- Post-basic training education
- Campus wide expansion and renewal
- Practice-based research projects
- Salus house inpatient psychiatry program
- Leslie diamond women’s heart health centre
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Head Neck Surgeon, Director, Planning and Projects, Lead Hand, Midwifery Department Head, Department Head, Surgery
