Honveer Randhawa names 6965 King George Boulevard as site of new Surrey-Newton Seniors and Children's Hospital

Honveer Singh Randhawa and the Conservative Party of Surrey council team today named 6965 King George Boulevard in Newton as the firm site of a new Surrey-Newton Senior and Children's Hospital. A Conservative Mayor and Council will make the hospital a first-term priority and will use every tool at City Hall to get it built. Only Honveer Randhawa has the strength and energy to deliver this project and see it through to completion.

Newton is Surrey's largest town centre, with more than 160,000 residents, larger than the Township of Langley. It is home to young families and a growing senior population. Yet the community still has no dedicated hospital of its own. That ends with a firm site at 6965 King George Boulevard. Residents who need pediatric, maternity, or senior-focused hospital care are sent to Surrey Memorial Hospital, already home to the busiest emergency department in British Columbia, or told to travel farther away from their homes and loved ones.

Surrey Memorial is under sustained pressure. Emergency waits of six to eight hours are common. Hallway care is routine. Births at the hospital have climbed toward 6,000 a year. A second hospital is under construction in Cloverdale, but that project does not replace the need for dedicated senior and children's capacity in Surrey, where those patients and their families actually live.

"Surrey-Newton should not be an afterthought. A grandmother should not spend a night in a hallway. A parent should not drive across the city with a sick child because there is no hospital in the community they call home. If we are elected, City Hall will stop waiting and start doing the work a city can do: lock down 6965 King George Boulevard, clear the permits, and take a finished ask to Victoria and Ottawa," said Honveer Singh Randhawa, Conservative candidate for Mayor of Surrey.

What City Hall will do in the first 100 days. Hospitals are funded and operated by the Province and Fraser Health. That is not an excuse for City Hall to sit on its hands. A Conservative administration will treat the Surrey-Newton Senior and Children's Hospital at 6965 King George Boulevard as a city-led partnership file, not a campaign slogan.

If elected on October 17, Randhawa and the Conservative council team will:

• Direct staff, within the first 100 days, to reserve 6965 King George Boulevard in Newton as the firm site of a purpose-built Senior and Children's Hospital.

• Pass a Council resolution formally requesting that the Province and Fraser Health designate 6965 King George Boulevard in Newton as the site of a dedicated senior and children's hospital serving South Surrey, Newton, and surrounding communities.

• Fast-track official community plan, rezoning, and permitting work at 6965 King George Boulevard so the City is not the reason the project stalls. Certified drawings will move under the same five-business-day permit standard Conservatives have already pledged for housing.

• Take a joint funding ask to Victoria and Ottawa, modelled on the provincial-federal-regional structure already used for major Surrey infrastructure.

• Establish a Mayor's Newton Hospital Task Force reporting publicly every quarter, with seats for Fraser Health, physicians and nurses, seniors' advocates, parents, and Newton residents.

A hospital built for the people who wait the longest. The Conservative Party of Surrey is not proposing another generic general hospital announcement. The Surrey-Newton Senior and Children's Hospital at 6965 King George Boulevard would be designed around two groups who are failed first when the system is overcrowded: children and seniors.

The City will ask the Province and Fraser Health to plan the facility around:

• Pediatric emergency and after-hours care so children are not parked in an adult ER.

• Maternity and family birthing capacity closer to Newton families.

• Geriatric emergency, assessment, and short-stay beds so seniors are not left in hallways.

• Diagnostic imaging and day-surgery suites sized for children and older adults.

• Outpatient pediatrics, geriatrics, and caregiver support on the same site.

• A building designed for dignity: wayfinding seniors can use, family rooms parents can stay in, and parking and transit that actually work for Newton.

"I have spent my career in senior care and hospice. I have sat with families who drove across Surrey because the care their parent needed was not where they lived. Dignity is not a luxury item. It is a hospital bed in your own community, staff who know geriatric care, and a system that does not treat aging as an inconvenience. That is what this hospital is for," said Cordell Pullar, Conservative candidate for Surrey City Council and senior-care professional.

"I studied as a nurse. I have worked with seniors. I am the father of a young daughter. I know what it means when a hospital is too far and too full. This is not about a ribbon-cutting. It is about whether Newton is treated like the city it already is," said Randhawa.

Families first, in the community that needs it. The hospital pledge sits with the rest of the Conservative platform: a $600 property tax cut and four-year freeze, safer streets, free water meters, public washrooms seniors can actually find, and recreation, libraries, and playgrounds within 15 minutes of every home. A city that puts families first does not tell those families to drive somewhere else when a child is sick or a parent is failing.

"Newton has the people. Surrey Memorial has the lineups. Cloverdale will have a new hospital years from now. What Newton has not had is a mayor with the strength and energy to name a site, lock it down, and see a Senior and Children's Hospital through to completion. Only Honveer Randhawa will do that work at 6965 King George Boulevard. That changes on October 17."

"Lower Taxes. Safer Streets. Families First."

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