Langley Memorial Hospital provides a range of primary, secondary and some specialty services, including 24/7 emergency, general and internal medicine, general surgery, select surgical specialties, and maternity and nursery specialties.
On July 14, 1948, the Cottage Hospital, a one-storey building with 35 beds, opened on Fraser Highway, two miles east of the town of Langley Prairie on a site that would become known as Hospital Hill. After the closing of the cottage hospital, the 1965 building that is now called the south tower was opened. Doris Riedweg, a member of the Langley Memorial Hospital Heritage Committee, wrote "The hospital on the hill : a history of Langley Memorial Hospital 1948-1998" to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the hospital in 2017.
Four heritage plaques, which were taken down in 2003 during renovations to the hospital entrance are currently a standing exhibit in Michaud House, which houses the LMH archive collection. There are four names on the plaques: Dr. Chapin Key, "whose efforts in planning, supervising equipping and furnishing, made this building possible," Marion R. Ward for her contribution toward the operation and building of the hospital, Harry B. Devine, the first hospital administrator from 1947 to 1964 and Stewart M. Chapman, who was administrator from 1964 to 1979.
