This year’s Light Up the Hospitals campaign has raised more than $435,000 for equipment and other improvements at local health care facilities.
The Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital Foundation has raised $355,000, including a $100,000 matching donation from Teck. The money will go toward the foundation’s Mental Health Matters campaign, which it says will “address growing needs to create safer, trauma-informed spaces that promote healing with dignity and respect, while ensuring the safety and well-being of healthcare teams and patients.”
The Castlegar and District Health Centre has raised about $20,000 towards a mobile floor lift for the emergency department and two ceiling lifts for the tub room at Talarico Place. They’re hoping to double that total and will continue to accept donations to the campaign into the new year.
The Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation is $60,300 towards its $80,000 goal to fund a state-of-the-art OmniBed care station for the maternity ward.
