How your gift advances patient care

The generosity of our donors enables life-saving, sophisticated medical equipment and facilities at our hospital.

Here are a few examples of what gifts to the Foundation have provided for:

In the Lady Minto Hospital Radiology Department, replacement of the ultrasound machine now offers better image quality and brings the service to current image quality standards allowing for improved diagnostic capabilities. This new machine is ergonomically designed in order to reduce injury to the operating technician or sonographer. $90,000.

A renovation of the Emergency Room based on suggestions made by the medical staff to better utilize the space, create increased safety and privacy for patients, and to provide each bed station with the necessary diagnostic equipment.  $11,800.

Critical to diagnostic capabilities, a new coagulation analyzer brings our Laboratory up to standard in this important area. $27,000.

Lady Minto patients benefit from what may be the best hospital food in the Province. To ensure this ongoing service by the Dietary Department, two new stoves replaced failing equipment in the kitchen. $11,600.

Our onsite Pharmacy provides a key service to patients of the hospital. Updating equipment and ensuring security of the facility contributes to this service.  $10,500.

Replacing the Laboratory’s freezer to meet current provincial standards. $9,900.

Enabling our Radiology Department to participate in a regional initiative, the PACS equipment project allows imaging recordings to be recorded digitally, facilitating the transfer of data across network lines immediately. The system that was replaced took three to five days for turnaround and reporting. $327,030.

A portable BP/SP02 monitor and portable I.V. pump helped to equip the new Post- Anesthesia Recovery Room (PARR). $9,830.

The need to perform biphasic monitoring during cardiac arrest and monitoring required replacement of the aging defibrillator/monitor pacer equipment enhancing our Emergency and advanced cardiac life support capabilities. $13,900.

Continuing the upgrade of our Operating Room Equipment following the facility renovation and expansion, a second operating table ensures that table failure will not result in the cancellation of surgery. The new table, which is C-arm compatible, becomes our primary table. The existing table will be moved to the 2nd Operating Room, allowing more flexibility in a medical crisis. Expansion of the Operating Room brings our facility to the highest current standards. $50,000.

The creation of a Palliative Care Suite provides a comfortable place for our patients and families at their most difficult of times. Structural work to the hospital building, prepares the hospital for further renovations as they are approved. $728,200.