New Westminster, BC – May 7, 2013 – Como Lake Middle School students Giordana Masi and Olivia D’Agostini have delivered 26 boxes of toys to the Royal Columbian Hospital Paediatrics Department as a result of a toy drive they hosted at school. The two Coquitlam grade 7 students initiated the toy drive out of … ( more » )
Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) Cardiologists Dr. Arthur Friesen (far left) and Dr. Akbar Lalani present a cheque for $61,866.10 to Adrienne Bakker, Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation President and CEO, on behalf of the New West Cardiac Research Society. Knowing first-hand how beneficial post-operative education can be to improving outcomes for cardiac patients, the doctors were … ( more » )
Thank you to the employees of FortisBC and their Warm Hearts Foundation for their gift towards a new phototherapy bed for treating babies with jaundice in our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. This piece of equipment allows a baby with acute jaundice to stay with its mother during treatment, and this reduces stress for baby and … ( more » )
(From left) Dr. Linda Curtis, Chair, Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) Medical Staff; Dr. Jeff Dresselhuis, Chair, Westminster Medical Association; Dr. Zenon Cieslak, Neonatologist; Dr. Mudaffer Al-Mudaffer, Neonatologist; Dr. Jorge Bonet, Cardiologist; and Dr. Lawrence Turner, Surgeon and Board Director, RCH Foundation present a cheque for $2,000 on behalf of the RCH Medical Staff in support … ( more » )
Hanif Charania, RBC Royal Bank Regional Vice-president (left), and Keith Richmond, RBC Royal Bank Vice-president, Commercial Financial Services (far right), present a cheque for $20,000 to Adrienne Bakker, Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) Foundation President and CEO, and David Worthington, RCH Foundation Board Vice-chair. RBC’s generous donation will fund a Glidescope Endoscope for RCH’s Emergency Department. … ( more » )
Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) Foundation Board Director John Ashbridge proudly accepts a cheque for $5,000 from Jacquie Stevenson, Secretary/Charity Committee Chair, Elks Club of New Westminster, at their annual Robbie Burns celebration. Their donation will support RCH Foundation’s Reasons to Care, Reasons to Give campaign to raise $1.5 million to fund critically needed equipment throughout … ( more » )
Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation’s Feroza Jamal (far left) and Eleanor Ryrie (far right) receive a cheque from Jina Sarkis-Dina, pharmacist-owner, Shoppers Drug Mart, Westwood Plateau Village, Coquitlam, for $15,514.00 on behalf of the owners and managers of nine Shoppers Drug Mart locations in Coquitlam, Port Moody, Burnaby and New Westminster. These Shoppers Drug Mart locations … ( more » )