Scrubs revival stars talk about how they recreated the exact hospital but in Vancouver instead of LA like the original show

More than a decade after leaving Sacred Heart behind, the cast of Scrubs walked back onto a set that looked almost exactly like home. For the revival, premiering this February on ABC, production moved to Vancouver, where the original hospital has been rebuilt on massive soundstages. According to stars Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke, the recreation is precise enough that it feels surreal.

Speaking to Deadline, the stars talked about how the set was recreated exactly as Braff stated,

“I never thought it would be 100% accurate or to scale, I thought it would be like 65% to scale..It is pretty much every place we shot in the old abandoned hospital recreated on stage, just extraordinary work by the production designer and his team..Literally, you’ll be in the set, and you’ll go, oh, that’s Riverside that way. The drop actually looks so real that looks out north in the Valley, it’s very, very, very surreal."

Chalke then added,

"They actually got to do the old hospital, it’s identical, but make it better. It was really cool, it was really surreal, actually, to walk onto the set for the first time, because obviously we spent all of our 20s there, and then to come back that many years later and have it be exactly the same, it was incredible.”

More details about Scrubs revival

Sacred Heart is officially back in business as the celebratory tenth season of Scrubs is all set to premiere again after more than ten years, bringing back the medical drama that dominated the early 2000s.

Original stars Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke return as J.D., Turk and Elliot, alongwith John C. McGinley and Judy Reyes. We will also get to meet a new generation of interns, bringing a touch of modernity and freshness with nostalgia for the original show.

The revival was officially ordered in July 2025, with creator Bill Lawrence returning as an executive producer. Production ran from October to December in Vancouver, and the season will consist of nine episodes. New installments will also stream the day after broadcast on Hulu.

The show has tried to recreate the set and everything so the nostalgia is there, with the same actors and almost the same sets, fans will get to transport back to the medical drama that made us laugh, think, cry and fall in love with all the characters.

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Scrubs is all set to premiere on February 25 on ABC and later Disney Plus.

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