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===Health care=== Health care in Richmond is overseen by the [[Vancouver Coastal Health Authority]], which also covers the City of [[Vancouver]], District of [[West Vancouver]], [[North Vancouver (city)|City of North Vancouver]], and [[North Vancouver (district municipality)|District of North Vancouver]] as well as coastal regions of [[British Columbia]]. [[Richmond Hospital]], located on the southeast corner of Westminster Highway and Gilbert Road, is undergoing redevelopment. In 2018, the Ministry of Health approved an 8-floor acute care tower redevelopment plan to replace the aging north tower.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020|title=Vancouver Coastal Health Authority- Richmond Acute Tower Redevelopment|url=http://www.vch.ca/about-us/development-projects/richmond-acute-care-tower-redevelopment-project|access-date=7 July 2020|website=Vancouver Coastal Health Authority|archive-date=24 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924220458/http://www.vch.ca/about-us/development-projects/richmond-acute-care-tower-redevelopment-project|url-status=live}}</ref> On 2 July 2020, the provincial government announced the acute care tower concept plan was being updated, with an additional floor (9 total) and announcement of expanded and renewed ER, ICU, Pharmacy, along with renovations to the south tower to include more inpatient psychiatric beds along with a psych ER.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hall|first=Mike|date=2 July 2020|title=New Richmond Hospital tower bigger, more expensive than planned|url=https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/07/02/new-richmond-hospital-tower-bigger-more-expensive-than-planned/|access-date=7 July 2020|website=News 1130|archive-date=8 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200708151709/https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/07/02/new-richmond-hospital-tower-bigger-more-expensive-than-planned/|url-status=live}}</ref> The city is known internationally as the headquarters of the [[Canadian Hemochromatosis Society]], and also as the city where the National Annual Hemochromatosis Awareness Month was initiated by former Mayor G. H. Blair in 1987.
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