New ICU will replace Archaic 50-year-old facility
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Construction is underway to bring more intensive care beds to Nanaimo.
Island Health’s Chief Medical Executive Ben Williams said the new state-of-the-art facility at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital will replace the existing one, which opened in 1970.
He said it will allow staff to offer the best care possible.
“This new ICU is larger, twelve beds rather than 10, its state-of-the-art, the rooms are much larger, we can have all the equipment that we need to provide critical care and we have lifts to keep our staff safe for moving patients, there’s space for dialysis, for breathing machines, for complex infusions of medications, all the complex services that you, or I, or our families might need if we’re really sick.”
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Jackie Wreggit lives in Huntsville, yet by helping the Timmins and District Hospital Foundation, she earned herself $268,535.00. Wreggit won the foundation’s January 50-50 draw. The first-time player was convinced by her son-in-law from Hearst to take a chance.
She says she’d like to travel to a warmer part of Canada, once COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.
Jackie Wreggit
The site was first unveiled in an announcement in early September, when Premier Scott Moe and then-Health Minister Jim Reiter were on hand along with MLA Duncan and several members of city council and the Hospital Foundation. Duncan said the Request for Proposals went out a couple of weeks ago for the major project, and they are due to be in to the government by this summer. The hospital is due to be constructed and open by 2023. The sign is located between Fifth Street and Hamilton Street on a 20-acre parcel purchased from the City of Weyburn, which is the new site for the new integrated 35-bed facility. The new facility will include a 10-bed inpatient mental health unit, and will also integrate the EMS ambulance service into its location.
Hospital foundations across northern Ontario are finding success in holding 50-50 draws these days.
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Hospital 50/50 draws here are relatively new, but in the past year, they ve raised millions of dollars for health equipment in the north.(hsn5050.ca) comments
Hospital foundations across northern Ontario are finding success in holding 50-50 draws these days.
It s a relatively new undertaking for the hospitals, but in the past year, they ve raised millions of dollars for health equipment in the north.
The Sault Area Hospital launched its monthly 50/50 draw just over a year ago.