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Family donates $2.2 million for hospital MRI Sate of the art The Mailman Family Foundation buys piece of equipment for the new Campbell River hospital
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he Campbell River-based Mailman Family Foundation is donating a state-ofthe-art MRI machine for the the new $274.5 million Campbell River Hospital, currently under construction. Valued at $2.2 Million, this 1.5T Medical Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine is predicted to have a significant impact on patient care for North Vancouver Island communities. Currently, the only MRI machine available through Island Health is a shared mobile unit that rotates through Campbell River, Comox, Duncan, and Port Alberni every six weeks. A fixed MRI machine at the Campbell River hospital is expected to further enhance patient care in the region: “North Vancouver Island is expe- The Mailman family donated a $2.3 million MRI to the under-construction Campbell River hospital on Wednesday. Front row (from left): riencing growth as well as an aging Blake Raleigh and Caleb Raleigh. Back row (from left): Dustin Raleigh, Amanda Raleigh, Cheryl Mailman, Kris Mailman, Kris D. Mailman. population,” said Stacey Marsh of the Campbell River Hospital FounThe MRI machine is a tube surcontinue to expand with ongoing medical imaging technology will be Construction program at Carihi rounded by a large, circular magresearch. available right here.” Secondary, construction of the dation. “Plus, the Campbell River “Campbell River has been good The Mailman family is well Campbell River Lacrosse box, as Hospital is the first point of referral net. The patient lies on a moveable bed that slides into the tube where to our family, and we’re excited for known in Campbell River for their well as regular donations of time, for medical emergencies, serious illness, and disease in our region. imaging technology uses a magthis opportunity to give back,” said charitable involvement. Other money, and resources to a long list The donation of the dedicated MRI netic field and radio waves to create Kris Mailman, owner of Broadnotable gives have included the Life of local youth programs and charimachine will assist our physicians detailed 3D pictures of the body, street Properties and Seymour Skills House at Timberline Second- table organizations. in getting to the right answers particularly soft tissues. Pacific Developments. “Patients ary School, sponsorship of the new The Mailman family’s latest donafaster and moving patients toward It is most commonly used to shouldn’t have to travel to Victoria CR Hospice House, involvement tion of the new MRI machine is treatment and recovery sooner. We examine the brain, spine, joints, or Vancouver, or wait months for in the building of the Discovery slated to be in place when the new, are very grateful to the Mailman abdomen, and pelvis – though the mobile MRI unit. This dediPassage Aquarium, ongoing dona95-bed Campbell River Hospital family for their generous gift.” applications for medical diagnosis cated machine means sophisticated tion of materials for the Ace-It opens in the fall of 2017.
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