Next week’s Evening of Caring — an annual gala in support of the Eagle Ridge Hospital in Port Moody — is now sold out.
But the hospital foundation says donors who were unable to get tickets can still help out through its Fund-A-Need campaign.
Launched this month, the FAN drive aims to raise $500,000 to outfit nine rooms in the new emergency department that, when complete, will triple in size. Among the items the hospital foundation will pay for are:
• infusion pumps ($7,123 each)
• patient stretcher beds ($17,735 each)
• physiologic monitors ($6,555 each)
• point of care carts ($2,145 each)
• ceiling lifts ($14,191 each)
• and other needs ($70,000).
“We know that the community is invested in having improved emergency care for their families and, by supporting this year’s gala through our Fund-A-Need campaign, it brings that reality one step closer,” foundation executive director Charlene Giovannetti-King said.
Money collected from the 28th annual gala — be held Sept. 29 at the Executive Plaza in Coquitlam — and the FAN campaign will go toward the foundation’s $5-million pledge for the hospital’s $27.6-million expansion; that capital project will see the number of emergency department rooms rise from 19 to 39.
Opened in 1984, the hospital emergency department is expected to serve more than 52,000 patients this year.
To donate, call 604-469-3128 or visit erhf.ca.
