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RBC helps Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation boost cardiac care services at hospital.

RBC’s contribution of $15,000 to the Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) Foundation has helped boost cardiac care services at the Fraser Health region’s heart centre. The donation helped fund state-of-the-art cardiac equipment and a new, larger Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit at RCH. Grateful for their support, Adrienne Bakker, president and CEO of RCH Foundation (right), presents a certificate of recognition to Jennifer Muir, regional vice-president, and Fred Meagher, New Westminster Branch Manager.

The Record and Burnaby Now newspapers support RCH Foundation’s 30th Anniversary Gala.

Adrienne Bakker, Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) Foundation president and CEO, proudly presents a certificate of recognition to Brad Alden, publisher of the The Record and the Burnaby Now, for the newspapers’ generous sponsorship of the RCH Foundation’s 30th Anniversary Gala. The Gala raised $250,000 for the $2-million Heart to Heart campaign to help fund critical cardiac care services at RCH.

Investors Group Financial Services - Doris Ratz Financial Team helps fund new Cardiac Surgery ICU at Royal Columbian Hospital.

Investors Group Financial Services Inc. Doris Ratz, Senior Consultant and Tod Woodward, Division Director, present a $5000 cheque to Renee Kinnear, Patient Coordinator, Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit (CSICU), Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) and Laurie Tetarenko, Vice President RCH Foundation. Investors Group was a Ruby Sponsor for the March 27, 08 RCH Foundation Gala. This sponsorship will benefit the RCH Foundation Heart to Heart Campaign that is funding the new CSICU through the purchase of state-of-the-art equipment.

Wesgroup Properties helps fund new Cardiac Surgery ICU at Royal Columbian Hospital

Gino Nonni, President, Wesgroup Properties (second from left), presents a cheque for $62,500 to Dr. Gerald Simkus (far left), Head of Cardiac Services for RCH, Dr. Roy Morton, RCH Medical Director, and Laurie Tetarenko, Vice-President, Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation, to help fund equipment for the new Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit.

Sanofi-Aventis donates $50,000 to Royal Columbian Hospital to benefit the Cardiac Catheterization Lab

(From left to right) Jeremy Stothart, Hospital Representative, Cardiovascular Medicines and Brad Evans, Manager Cardiovascular Business Unit, British Columbia (second from left) of Sanofi-Aventis, present a cheque for $50,000 to Laurie Tetarenko, Vice-President, RCH Foundation and Dr. Gerald Simkus, Head of Cardiac Services for RCH, to benefit the Cardiac Catheterization Lab.

Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation celebrates $1.3 million in support from Variety that helps care for the smallest and sickest newborns in the province

(From left to right) Gary Brush, Chair, RCH Foundation Board of Directors, Barbie Hislop, Executive Director, Variety – The Children’s Charity, Bob Stewart, President and International Ambassador, Variety – The Children’s Charity, and Adrienne Bakker, President & CEO, RCH Foundation, stand beneath the newly unveiled Variety – The Children’s Charity Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) sign. The sign was unveiled in celebration of a $1.3 million cumulative donation milestone from Variety – The Children’s Charity to help care for the smallest and sickest newborns in the province.

Thank you for being a Star for Care

	Our sincere gratitude to our corporate partners for their heartfelt support of cardiac care at Royal Columbian Hospital. By sponsoring a tree this holiday season, they will help fund state-of-the-art cardiac equipment for a new Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit.

Variety donates $10,000 to help families in need at RCH

Variety Executive Director Barbie Hislop (second from right) and her team members Patsy Craig, Director, Heart of Variety Fund (second from left), and Barbara Stewart, Board Member (third from right), present a $10,000 gift for the Emergency Response Fund to Adrienne Bakker, President & CEO, RCH Foundation (far right), Farimah Shakeri, Professional Practice Chief, Social Work (far left), and Cheri King, Social Worker (third from left) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at RCH.

ICU Grand Opening at RCH a big success - thanks to donors

Health Minister George Abbott officially opened the new state-of-the-art ICU on June 5, 2007. The government committed $6.5 million to the facility and RCH Foundation raised $1.6 million from community donations for the new 9,200 square foot facility which features 16 private rooms, 3 private family rooms and custom-made ceiling mounted equipment booms.

New donor-funded hi-tech clot-busting equipment only one of its kind in western Canada

Ed and Diane Les (left) generously funded the hi-tech Angiojet clot-busting machine, with Adrienne Bakker, President and CEO of RCH Foundation and Dr. Brad Halkier, Interventional Radiologist at RCH.

CKNW donates $26,500 for infant incubator for Neonatal ICU

CKNW Orphans’ Fund donated $26,500 to purchase an incubator and help the smallest and sickest babies at Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH). In appreciation, Adrienne Bakker, President and CEO of RCH Foundation (right) presented Cathy Hunt, Assistant Administrator (left) with a special donor certificate.

Tzu Chi Foundation donates $50,000 for state-of-the-art equipment in new ICU

Adrienne Bakker, President and CEO of RCH Foundation (third from left) stands under a ceiling-mounted equipment boom with Yi Leng Chen (fourth from left) and members of the Buddhist Compassion Tzu Chi Foundation, who donated $50,000 for the equipment in the new ICU..

RBC Foundation helps fund equipment in the new ICU with $20,000 donation

Karen Watson, Manager of ICU (middle) shows Karen Baker-MacGrotty of RBC (left) and Adrienne Bakker, President and CEO of RCH Foundation (right) around the nearly finished ICU after RBC donated $20,000 to help equip the new unit.

Hip Hip Hooray for Orthopaedic Unit at RCH with $7,072 donation

At Royal Columbian Hospital, orthopaedic nurse Brenda Williams demonstrates a Dinemapp machine on Jillian Chateauneuf, Hip Hip Hooray Lower Mainland Chairperson, after the organization donated $7072.85 to help fund the machine, as well as a ceiling lift. .