The contribution from the Fielding and Purdue family is the largest single donation in the history of Northern Ontario hospitals
In what is likely the first big step in the multi-million dollar capital expansion of Northern Ontario's largest hospital, Health Sciences North in Sudbury revealed today that the Fielding and Purdue family has donated $10 million to the Northern Cancer Foundation.In addition to that, the combined foundations at HSN revealed Monday that another $9 million has been accumulated and will be part of the overall contribution to that multi-year effort.
The first speaker of the day was HSN president and CEO Dominic Giroux, who made reference to the fact that the original plan for 600 beds at HSN was cut back by roughly 30 per cent to 412 beds by the Queen's Park Liberals in 2004. Giroux said since then, it has been a priority to expand HSN. "Northerners know that HSN is built too small and that's a big problem. We're all getting older and that will put more pressure on HSN. When we heard about HSN plans to increase the number of beds and expand services for kids and mental health and addictions patients we knew we had to help. Our family has strong ties to HSN and to the Northeast Cancer Centre."
"Northern Ontario is home to our family, and we want to help to make sure HSN is going to be able to provide that care to all of us Northerners in the future," Purdue said. "This historic donation today honoring the memory of Shirley and Jim Fielding will go a long way to help HSN achieve its goals of expanding to meet the growing needs of our patients from across this vast region. And we want to make sure that the legacy of Shirley and Jim Fielding lives on long into the future," Laughren said.
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