Tuesday, 1 October 2019

Fifth annual fundraiser now accepting gifts

Giving Thanks to the Golden & District Hospital 2019 is now accepting donations and will remain open for the next 2 weeks until October 12th 2019, the Saturday of the Thanksgiving weekend.


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Friends of the Golden and District Hospital was established in 2015 when a group of families wanted to show their support for the local hospital in a tangible way. Each family had their own story to tell and reasons for giving thanks to the Golden and District Hospital. The crowd funding project, Giving Thanks to the Golden & District hospital, was a very popular event with the community showing overwhelming support for the hospital. This is the fifth annual Thanksgiving crowd funding event.
The Golden Hospital and Durand Manor had a sizable list of equipment needs over and above their annual budget for which funding was not easily nor readily found. Since inception the Friends of the Golden and District Hospital has raised $107,950; money which stays in Golden and which has been used to purchase items from this list.
This year the Friends of the Golden & District Hospital are raising funds for the acquisition of a Mobile X-Ray Machine at a cost of $95,000.

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The East Kootenay Foundation for Health has endorsed the Friends of the Golden & District Hospital and has approved the crowd-funding project through CanadaHelps.org.

Friday, 9 August 2019

New equipment makes huge difference




Pictured; Susan Dukelow, Dr. Jean-Gaston DesCoteaux, Dr. Meghan Guy, Keith W Hern

 "Thank you again for all you do to support our community hospital! We are deeply grateful for your ongoing support and, more specifically, for this latest equipment purchase." 

 The VIO 300D is a premium electrosurgical generator for interventional endoscopy cost $33,999 and was purchased in 2019 with funds from the 2018 Thanksgiving fund raising campaign and the East Kootenay Foundation for Health.
"This equipment allows us to remove larger polyps safely right here at the Golden Hospital. It has been used during 10-12 colonoscopies in the last month and with the arrival of an additional surgeon in September it will see even more use as the number of procedures we do increases. Removing the polyps in the pre-cancer stage greatly reduces the incidence of colon cancer."
Dr. JG DesCoteaux.


Keith W Hern, 
Friend of the Golden & District Hospital