Hospital donations have life-saving impactBy David Leacancer and medical daycare clinic and a $5Bank of Canada and longtime Oakville HospitalHalton Healthcare Service Chief NursingOAKVILLE BEAVER STAFFmillion gift from the WB Family Foundation,Foundation supporter, said he is confident theOfficer Silvia Rogers, noted additional fund-whose name will adorn our diagnostic imag-Oakville community will come together toraising is still needed to bring even moreThe donors who helped the Oakville ing department.achieve the new Oakville hospital campaignground breaking medical technology toHospital Foundation get one-third of the way Triano said that thanks to the generosity of goal of $60 million.Oakville.towards meeting its $60 million commitment these individuals and the generosity of thoseThat goal is already in sight he pointed outSome of the items on OTMHs wish listto the new Oakville hospital were formally present, Oakville will have the best equipmentas to date more than $21 million in majorinclude an angiography machine, bone min-recognized, Tuesday night, with a special and best health care possible.gifts have been announced for the campaign.eral and densitometry machine, six electro-reception at the existing Oakville hospital.In his last role as chair of the OakvilleTo show just want these donations willcardiography machines and another anes-About 100 people packed a reception area Hospital Foundation Frank Lochan also spokeactually do for Oakville, Galloway called onthetic gas machine.of Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospitals to those in attendance stating that the moneyNancy Simpson to talk about how her hus-New technology like the bladder scanner,(OTMH) lobby where they were treated to raised would go towards funding the currentbands life was saved at OTMH.another exciting piece of equipment for nurses,wine, food and numerous speakers who talked equipment needs of OTMH and the futureSimpson began her remarks by thankingand things like the ultrasound machine, thatabout the difference their donations have needs of the new Oakville hospital.those present for saving her husbands life.you funded this year, will enable more accuratemade and will continue to make.You are putting essential equipment inSimpson said her husband, Leonard, wasand faster diagnoses. New transport stretchersI am humbled and grateful to you for a the hands of our caregivers and allowingrecovering from a heart attack at OTMH whenand intensive care beds speak to our initiativesrecord year of support punctuated by three them to provide quality and compassionatehe had a second attack and nearly died.in patient safety and comfort. The new veintransformational gifts to our new Oakville care to all of us, said Lochan, who thenOur Leonard is alive today and for that weviewer will help make IV procedures less stress-hospital campaign, said Tina Triano, CEO of turned the podium over to his successorthank Dr. Michael Heffernan and a very spe-ful for babies and young children and for thethe Oakville Hospital Foundation.Bruce Galloway.cial piece of equipment called the intra-aorticnurses inserting those IVs, said Rogers.A $10 million gift from Peter Gilgan, As a show of appreciation to the retiringballoon pump, which you helped purchase,All of these pieces of equipment arewhose name will adorn our in-patient tower, a chair, a tree was dedicated in his honour insaid Simpson to the audience.needed now at OTMH and all will be moving$3.5 million gift from Betty and the late Bruce the OTMH garden.The balloon was inserted throughwith us to the new Oakville hospital.Birmingham, whose names will adorn our Galloway, a retired vice-chair of the RoyalLeonards groin, up an artery and placed onRogers also provided the latest on the newtop of his heart. This machine was inflatedOakville hospital process.and deflated so that with every pump it helpedThe team from Hospital InfrastructureCorrectionhis heart beat again.Partners, she said, is the successful bidderSimpson said she later learned OTMH iswho will design, build and maintain the newIn the story Seniors evacuated for gas In reality it was one wing of the John the only community hospital in Canada,Oakville hospital.leak, which ran in ThursdaysOakville Rhodes Senior Citizens Residence, located which uses this particular piece of equip-The construction of the hospital itself isBeaver, it was incorrectly stated one wing of behind the recreation centre at 271 Kerr St., ment.expected to begin in early August with finan-the Oakville Seniors Recreation Centre was which was evacuated.Im grateful to you because you have pur-cial close on the project taking place at theevacuated because of a gas leak near the The Oakville Beaver regrets this error chased it, she said.end of July.facility.and any inconvenience it may have caused.Renovate Decorate Celebrate5JQPC (KV\IGTCNFTime is Precious, Mistakes are Costly and Decorating is complicated.Gift ates fic ertiCInquire about your leailabAvPersonal Design ConsultationAt Fitz by Design we are committed to creating breathtaking, functional spaces that are unique as the individuals living in them. ? ? ^ ? ? 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