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TIMMINS AND DISTRICT
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Hospital celebrates opening of new Breast Wellness Centre
Patient-centred care means patients no longer have to sit in the hall
TIMMINS - Mayor Steven Black attended Timmins and District Hospital for the official opening of the long-awaited Breast Wellness Centre on Tuesday, October 20, 2015.
Hospital representatives joining Mayor Black for the ribbon-cutting ceremony included Robert Perrault, Board Chair, TADH Foundation; Blaise MacNeil, President and CEO, TADH; Tina Bilodeau, Coordinator of Breast Imaging, TADH; Dr. Karina Bukhanov, Radiologist – Breast Imaging Specialist; Léon Laforest, Board Chair, TADH; and Guy Guindon, Manager, John P. Larche Medical Imaging / Cardiopulmonary Department, TADH.
“On behalf of the Board of Directors and Management team, I would like to thank the donors and community partners for their continued support over the years to make the new Breast Wellness Centre at the Timmins and District Hospital a reality,” said Blaise MacNeil, President and CEO of the Timmins and District Hospital.
“We are proud of the new Centre offering the best modern, patient-centered care possible that will provide shorter wait times, help coordinate and expedite care, and provide information and support to our patients and their families,” continued MacNeil.
“The Foundation is pleased to have reached this milestone after 6 years of fundraising efforts,” stated Janna Burke, Executive Director, TADH Foundation.
“It is thanks to the generosity of this community that we can now offer services including mammography, ultrasound, biopsies, bone mineral density and MRI in one comfortable private space,” added Burke.
More than $1.2 million was raised through special events like the John P. Larche Charity Golf Classic, Days Inn Spring Ball, $100,000 donations from John and Dolores Larche, CIBC and Great-West-Life/London Life/Canada Life, as well as other community and in memoriam donations.
State-of-the-art equipment has been purchase for the new Breast Wellness Centre including a Surgical Radiography Specimen System, MRI Breast Coil, Ultrasound and Bone Mineral Density machine.
Funds raised by the Foundation also went to the relocation of the Mammography and the construction of the Breast Wellness Centre.
About Timmins and District Hospital Foundation
From the James Bay coast to Engleheart, from Hearst to Kirkland Lake, Timmins and District Hospital is the beating heart of a vast, beautiful and vibrant region.
We hold the well-being of over 115,000 people in our hands...and they, in turn, hold our fate in theirs.
As the largest hospital in Northeast Ontario, TADH is poised on the brink of a new era in healthcare for this region.
To meet the growing and changing needs of the families we serve, the facilities and equipment of our hospital must be renewed.
Not years from now, but now.
Outdated, cramped, with an aging building and obsolete equipment, TADH is long past due for a revitalization that will enable us to take our District’s healthcare into the future.
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