The Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation is $500,000 closer to its $30 million fundraising goal toward plans for cardiac care in southern Alberta.
According to a release from the foundation the funding was donated by the Ambika and Durga Foundations, with funding from a local business women who was personally impacted by cardiac health challenges. Shilpa Stocker says her dad received the best available care from cardiologists and staff of the Heart Function Clinic at our Lethbridge hospital.
“When we were alerted to this larger, more impactful vision for enhanced interventional treatment outlined by Dr. Sayeh Zielke and her colleagues, we knew we had to do all we could to make that vision a reality for this community,” Stocker says.
Dr. Zielke says the generosity of Stocker’s family blows her away.
“Their charitable gesture is compelling evidence of this community’s desire to have enhanced cardiac care much closer to home,” Zielke says.
The project the funding will go towards is expected to elevate the standard of cardiac care in Lethbridge and Medicine Hat with a new catheterization lab, electrophysiology lab and two echocardiography labs. The project also includes the installation of a new cardiac MRI, CT scanners and a number of cardiac ICU beds which is expected to relieve pressures from the existing ICU wards.
