LGH Equipment Campaign

2015/2016

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Dr. Hazel Park and Dr. Dana Haaf MESSAGE

Helping contents A Community miracles with Heart cover story OVER THE YEARS, Lions Gate Hospital Foundation has been able to provide major funding for many groundbreaking advances at Lions happen SPECIAL CENTRE SECTION Gate Hospital thanks to the amazing generosity of people like you. LGH Equipment Campaign Now included among these great achievements is the $62-million Lions Gate Hospital Foundation HOpe Centre (The Greta and Robert H.N. Ho Psychiatry and Education has launched a major campaign Centre), which opened to patients last December. Literally overnight, to ensure doctors at LGH have patients with mental health challenges walked out of the darkness and the tools and technology they into the light of a bright, hopeful and healing environment devoted to need to improve outcomes and their care and recovery. save lives. The HOpe Centre, which also includes a Blenz Coffee social By Ann Collette enterprise, mental health resource centre, medical education centre and new BC Emergency Health Services ambulance station, was the largest single undertaking in the Foundation’s history. Thank you again to everyone who supported the campaign. Now the Foundation has its sights set on the next phase of its features commitment to supporting the complete renewal of the LGH campus 8 Legacy – Dr. Jim Corbett – the creation of the new Outpatient Care Centre and Atrium. This fall, After a lifetime of caring for the Foundation is also launching a new fundraising drive to replace patients on the North Shore, and update urgently needed medical equipment. Dr. Jim Corbett chose to remember Speaking of equipment, LGH has now taken delivery of two new Lions Gate Hospital in his Will. gamma cameras and a state-of-the-art GE Revolution CT scanner (the By Ann Collette first of its kind in Canada), all of which were made possible thanks to your support of the Foundation’s medical imaging campaign. 9 Kevin and Patricia In other Foundation news, we’d like to congratulate our newly formed Young Professionals Committee on their first-ever Nip ‘n’ Tuck Huscroft Coastal SIM Centre Pitch & Putt event, held last September, which raised $15,000 for the Computer-controlled Foundation. The Young Professionals Committee, together with our mannequins allow medical Youth Advisory Committee, is one way we are working to engage, teams at Lions Gate to practise excite and develop our next generation of Foundation leaders. their skills in a simulated yet Building Lions Gate Hospital into a state-of-the-art medical centre life-like teaching environment. for our community is a shared dream and a collaborative effort. Do something amazing. By Michelle Hopkins We would like to thank the Foundation Board, honorary directors, committee members, volunteers and especially GIVE NOW. you – our incredible individual, business and corporate 10 Into the Light donors – for supporting us in this great cause. Visit: lghfoundation.com The HOpe Centre has exceeded Email: [email protected] all expectations, becoming the Phone: 604-984-5785 Follow us on: /lghfoundation @LFHFoundation /lghfoundation new heart of mental health services on the North Shore. By Ann Collette Paul Hamilton IFC-LGH_Ad.indd 1 2015-08-17 2:13 PM Chair, LGH Foundation Well into the Future is published by Canada Wide Media Limited for Lions Gate Hospital Foundation. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. Send change of address notices and covers of undeliverable copies to: Lions Gate Hospital Foundation, 231 East 15th Street, North Vancouver, departments BC V7L 2L7. Publication Sales Agreement #40065475. For questions or concerns regarding any of the publication’s content please direct enquiries to 604-984-5785. 3 Message from the Magazine of Board of Directors 2015-2016 DIRECTORS AT LARGE HONORARY DIRECTORS Board Chair and Lions Gate Hospital Heather Buckley Dr. Allan Burgmann EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Judy Savage Foundation Chris Carter Nancy Burke Paul Hamilton, Chair Foundation President 2015/2016 Liz Dickson Mary Downie President, LGH Foundation Pierre Lebel, Co-Vice Chair VOLUME 9 NUMBER 1 Sandra Enticknap Don Foster Michael O’Callaghan, Co-Vice Chair Kevin Falcon Kenneth G. Hanna 4 Health Beat Fred Yada, Treasurer Alan Holton Coryn Hemsley Chairman, CEO Peter Legge, LLD (Hon) Mark Hannah, Secretary Bob McGill President Samantha Legge, MBA 12 Donor Profiles Gabrielle Loren Ken Rekrutiak Dr. Nasim Mahmoudi Editor Ann Collette Yvonne Schmidt Art Directors Felice Bisby, Ren Reed PRESIDENT Maria Morellato Michael R. Smith 14 The Chairman’s Circle LGHF Liaison Louise Campbell Judy Savage Stephen Murphy Ross Southam Mike Nader Grant Spitz Contributing Writers Louise Campbell, Ann Collette, 15 2014/2015 Financial Taleeb Noormohamed Roy Spooner Michelle Hopkins Fred Wright Mark Stevens Contributing Photography Paul Joseph, LGHF, Summary Judy Strongman Betty-Joan Traverse Carmen Thériault Electronic Imaging Mandy Lau Peter Walton Production Manager Kristina Borys Cover and this page: Paul Joseph WELLINTOTHEFUTURE 3 Bob Wilds HEALTH BEAT HEALTH BEAT AWARD-WINNING Lions for Lions Gate

WEBSITE Back in 1975, a pride of Lions from Next time you’re online, visit the Mount Seymour chapter of CT Revolution at LGH our award-winning Lions Gate Lions Clubs International sponsored Hospital Foundation website at a brand-new club in West Vancouver. www.lghfoundation.com. The site, Now celebrating their 40th anniver- There’s a revolution happening at which underwent a complete sary, the Ambleside Tiddlycove Lions Gate Hospital. Thanks to your redesign last year, recently took the Lions Club is still going strong. support of Lions Gate Hospital top honour in the health-care Ambleside Tiddlycove Lions Foundation’s CT Scanner campaign, category of the Interactive Media Club 2014/2015 president Don (Left to right) Don Rippon, Judy Savage and George Sim LGH is the first hospital in Canada Awards in a field of 154 submissions. Rippon says that over the past four to acquire the newest generation Beautifully organized and easy decades, the group has supported of this vital technology – the $2.2 to navigate, the site provides concise hundreds of North Shore causes and Foundation. “We also supported million GE Revolution CT scanner. information on Foundation cam- organizations, but that Lions Gate both the Endoscopy Unit campaign “The Revolution is as cutting paigns and their impact on patient Hospital Foundation has always and the Emergency Department edge as you can get for care at LGH. Find out what we do, get been close to members’ hearts. Redevelopment campaign.” CT technology at this updates on events, read fascinating “With the Foundation, we see “We’re just so grateful to time,” says Jeff Chabot, patient profiles and learn how you exactly how our donations help Don and the membership of the director, medical can support the Foundation through the community,” says Rippon. Ambleside Tiddlycove Lions,” says imaging, RCH, LGH our completely secure donor- “We’ve always considered it a Foundation president Judy Savage. and Coastal radiology. friendly site. ■ great investment.” “The Club is not only a generous “A first-rate scanner like This year, the Ambleside donor, but members also volunteer this will take us well into Tiddlycove Lions donated $50,000 their time at Foundation events. the 2020s.” to the LGH NOW campaign for “We value our partnership Lions Gate is the perfect location the creation of the new Outpatient with the Club and look forward to for the new imager. The current CT Care Centre. recognizing its generous support scanner is the most heavily used “We tend to focus on supporting by naming a room in honour of in the region, performing specific campaigns,” says Rippon, the Ambleside Tiddlycove Lions 24,000 scans each year. whose group has cumulatively Club in the new Outpatient Care The GE Revolution donated more than $100,000 to the Centre.” ■ CT scanner, which received Health Canada approval in April, is a marvel of innovation. It uses FOUNDATION FUNDRAISING HIGHLIGHTS up to 82-per-cent less radiation than its predecessors and is able to 4 cm) also means the imager can providing comfortable access for produce a scan in just 0.2 seconds, scan a whole organ in a single larger-sized patients. New software 2015 LGH Gala success of this amazing evening guests, donors and golfers for greatly enhancing the quality and rotation, rather than the previous has also eliminated the distortions in to our incredible sponsors, guests, making the event such a resounding resolution of the images. The larger two to three rotations. The bore image formerly caused by the metal in donors and volunteers,” says Judy success. New Generation of Support scan width (16 cm from the previous of the scanner is also much larger, hip and knee replacement joints. ■ Savage, president of Lions Gate Our Young Professionals Committee Hospital Foundation. “Thanks to (ages 25 to 40) hosted the 1st them, we’re that much closer to Annual Nip 'n' Tuck Pitch & Putt achieving our goal of bringing Classic at Murdo Frazer in improved access to care and trans- September and raised more forming the patient experience for than $15,000 for the LGH NOW 2015 Champions of Care the many people who come to the Campaign, while our Youth Each year, Lions Gate Hospital Foundation Gala Tops $1 Million This year Outpatient Care Centre for help.” Advisory Committee (ages 16 to recognizes four individuals for their ongoing marked another milestone at the Golf Classic Scores Big The 22) sold Mother’s Day cards to excellence in the delivery of health care to our Foundation – the 15th anniversary 19th Annual Lions Gate Hospital purchase a critical radiometer for community. Congratulations to our 2015 North of the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation Golf Classic, held the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Shore Health-Care Awards for Outstanding Foundation Gala. The dinner and on June 15 at Capilano Golf and at LGH. ■ Achievement honorees: (left to right) Clinical auction, presented by lead sponsor Country Club, scored another Practice Award – Deborah Senick, Evergreen House Goldcorp and held on May 1 at big win. The event’s generous residential care co-ordinator; Mike Nader, COO, Capilano Golf and Country Club, sponsors, players, donors and Coastal; Leadership Award – Carissa Looman, LGH raised a net total of $1,037,274 for volunteers swung into action lean advisor and systems improvement educator; the Foundation. The proceeds of to raise $413,396 (net) for the Philanthropy Award – Bruce Coulter, LGH Medical this year’s gala will go to the LGH Foundation. The funds are once Diagnostic Imaging Services supervisor; Workplace NOW campaign to help build a again earmarked for the LGH Inspiration Award – Rose Bencito, acute care aid, new Outpatient Care Centre at NOW campaign. Thank you to our LGH Chemotherapy Clinic. ■ Lions Gate. “As ever, we owe the organizing committee, sponsors, 2015 Golf Classic

4 WELLINTOTHEFUTURE • 2015/2016 Photos: LGHF Photos: LGHF 2015/2016 • WELLINTOTHEFUTURE 5 HEALTH BEAT HEALTH BEAT

Meet Margaret Ray

There really is no greater gift than giving of yourself – your time, your love, your passion and your caring. In this, Margaret Ray, a member of the Lions Gate Hospital Auxiliary for 54 years, is an inspiration to us all. “I’d always done community work, so when we moved to North Vancouver in 1961, I immediately started looking for a way to get involved,” says Margaret. “I read Margaret Ray that the Lions Gate Hospital Auxiliary needed volunteers to raise money and help with the doctors and nurses, and I’ve been “Ever since I came to Lions Gate, 50 years of Innovative Diabetes Care nursery unit. That’s where I started there to see all the growth and I have been making donations and I’ve been involved ever since.” improvements. I really do feel part through the years to the areas of FOR 50 YEARS, NORTH SHORE the West Vancouver Community SPECIAL PROGRAMS Margaret is one of four people of a very special community.” greatest need,” says Margaret. “My citizens diagnosed with diabetes Health Centre, hosts about 5,000 visits What’s striking about the Centre is who have each devoted more than Last year, Margaret decided to decision to leave a legacy gift is have come to the North Shore Diabetes each year. Its multi-disciplinary the degree to which it has innovated 50 years of continuous service take her commitment to LGH to simply an extension of what’s been Education Centre for life-changing team includes three diabetes to meet the changing needs of the to the LGH Auxiliary, and she another level by becoming a member a lifetime of giving.” support, information and care. The nurse-clinicians, a foot care nurse, community. Other programs and wouldn’t have it any other way. of Lions Gate Hospital Foundation’s For more information on the brainchild of Dr. John Hunt at Lions two clinical dietitians and an initiatives include: “To me, Lions Gate is like family,” Legacy Society, informing the Legacy Society, please call Joanne Gate Hospital, the Centre provides occupational therapist, with additional says Margaret. “Over the years I’ve Foundation of her intention to McLellan at 604-904-3553 or e-mail diabetes education services for the support from three endocrinologists, • Annual summer day camp for made many friends. I know the remember LGH in her Will. [email protected]. ■ more than 7,800 people currently an exercise specialist and a pediatric youth living with diabetes; living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, mental health counsellor. • Group education programs pre-diabetes and gestational The Centre’s highly successful conducted in Farsi; diabetes on the North Shore. programs are anchored by group • Interpreter services for non- education classes that allow clients English-speaking clients; DANGERS OF DIABETES to learn and practise diabetes • Diabetes foot care clinics; Diabetes is a disease where the management skills together. • Community diabetes outreach body is unable to produce insulin “We also provide group education for at-risk and vulnerable IN TUNE (the hormone that helps control and one-on-one support to women populations. blood-sugar levels) or use the who have or who develop diabetes insulin it produces. Untreated or in pregnancy as part of the diabetes The Centre also connects clients to WITH OUR poorly managed, diabetes can lead in pregnancy clinic at Lions Gate,” the most current printed and online to increased risk of heart attack or adds Ann Sarte, team lead, Chronic resources related to all aspects of stroke, kidney failure, blindness, Disease Services, North Shore. diabetes management. COMMUNITY impotence, nerve damage, and even Another major focus of the Sarte says that recent studies amputation. Centre involves supporting children confirm that the Centre’s programs “Dr. Hunt was way ahead of his newly diagnosed with diabetes, are producing positive results: “In We do more than operate gold mines. Through contributions time in terms of recognizing that together with their families. This addition to achieving more stable to the arts, healthcare, education and community development, people with pre-diabetes and diabetes process begins while the child is blood sugar levels, the majority of our commitment is to contribute to long-term social and need support in managing their still in hospital, and continues right people who attend the Centre’s own health,” says Sandra Edelman, through the transition to home. In group education programs actually economic benefits in the communities where we live and work. manager, North Shore Public Health addition to offering clinics for youth manage to lower their blood sugar We’re proud of our record of safe, responsible operations and Chronic Disease Services. “He with diabetes, the Centre also runs levels to a value known to delay or was the one who really pioneered a pediatric insulin resistance clinic. prevent the onset of complications.” everywhere we do business and of the legacy we’re building this diabetes education program.” Children whose bodies do not for generations to come. make enough insulin or become For more information on the North COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION resistant to its effects may develop Shore Diabetes Education Centre, SERVICES diabetes. With the rise in type 2 dia- please contact North Shore Chronic The North Shore Diabetes Education betes in youth in BC, the work of Disease Education Services at Centre, which operates out of the the Centre to support children at risk 604-984-5752 or e-mail to Outpatient Care Centre at LGH and is both innovative and imperative. [email protected]. ■

NYSE: GG | TSX: G goldcorp.com Photo: iStock 2015/2016 • WELLINTOTHEFUTURE 7 “Over the years, (Left to right) Dr. Shannon Chestnut he saw Lions and Karen Schafer with a simulation Gate through mannequin; (below) Kevin and several stages Patricia Huscroft. of development and expansion, which was Kevin and Patricia Huscroft very gratifying Coastal SIM Centre for him.” Computer-controlled mannequins allow medical teams at Lions – Betty-Joan Traverse Gate to practise their skills in a simulated yet life-like teaching environment By Michelle Hopkins

This year, Lions Gate Hospital practise and improve their skills Legacy unveiled a major innovation in in an environment completely free advanced skills development and from risk of patient harm. training for its doctors, nurses, “We have run a few simulated moved to Evergreen House at Lions staff and students – the Kevin and clinical courses, such as a Code Dr. Jim Corbett Gate Hospital for long-term care, he Patricia Huscroft Coastal SIM Blue cardiac arrest, which is then After a lifetime devoted to caring for patients on the North would visit her there daily. Centre. Located in the Djavad followed by a debriefing,” says generous lead gift of $500,000 Shore, Dr. Jim Corbett chose to remember Lions Gate “My dad felt very close to Lions Mowafaghian UBC Medical Chestnut. “With each simulation from philanthropists Kevin and Gate,” says Traverse. “My three Education Centre on the second we take away key points, which we Patricia Huscroft. Hospital in his Will By Ann Collette sisters and I knew he wanted to do floor of the new HOpe Centre, then discuss during the debriefing. “Our philanthropy is focused something for the hospital, so we the SIM Centre uses computer- “This is crucial, because it on education,” says Patricia. “We helped him make arrangements to controlled mannequins to help provides each participant an certainly believe this technology On October 9, 2014, on the heels of a Hospital – a position he held from include a gift in his Will. medical staff practise a wide range opportunity to talk about what has a massive butterfly effect.” long, happy and richly fulfilled life, 1974 until his retirement in 1986. Corbett graciously bequeathed of medical procedures in simulated happened, what they think they did Kevin agrees, adding, “As an Dr. Jim Corbett, age 93, passed away. “My dad just loved medicine,” says $25,000 to Lions Gate Hospital yet extraordinarily life-like conditions. well and what could be improved.” engineer and pilot, I’m quite familiar A well-known figure in the North his daughter Betty-Joan Traverse, Foundation, half of which he At the heart of the SIM Centre Chestnut, together with nursing with the importance of simulation. Shore medical community, Corbett who fondly remembers the times requested go to Evergreen House are three highly interactive simula- education lead Karen Schafer, are For young doctors and nurses, devoted his life to working as a when he’d let her ride along and in appreciation of the four years of tion mannequins – a man, child working closely with a number of they receive realistic training much family physician and championing wait in the family car while he care the centre provided to Vera. and baby. The computer-controlled clinical teams to ensure the Centre quicker, and in a team atmosphere quality health care with his made a quick house call. “He loved The other half will go to the LGH mannequins, or simulators as meets the needs of departments that is very life-like.” colleagues at Lions Gate Hospital. the science of medicine; he loved NOW campaign for the development they are called, can blink, breathe, throughout LGH, such as emergency, He adds that the couple also like That’s why no one was surprised caring for patients, and he espe- of a new Outpatient Care Centre. bleed, cry, cough and even scream. ICU, birthing and pediatrics. the fact that the hospital plans on when it was revealed that Corbett cially enjoyed working with his “My dad was very proud of his Remarkably life-like in every detail, Schafer says that tactile and taking this technology to more remote had remembered Lions Gate medical colleagues at Lions Gate. long association with Lions Gate the mannequins’ appearance and experimental learning are tremen- communities: “It’s so critical that these Hospital Foundation in his Will. “Over the years, he saw Lions Hospital,” says Traverse. “I know it human responses make them an dously valuable: “With SIM training, smaller hospitals, which don’t often Originally from the tiny farming Gate through several stages of made him feel good to leave behind ideal teaching tool in the field of students and hospital staff don’t encounter some of the more unusual community of Plenty, Saskatchewan, development and expansion, something that would help continue simulation-based learning. have to learn critical lessons on our situations larger hospitals deal with, Corbett began his medical career in which was very gratifying for him.” all the great work that happens Dr. Shannon Chestnut is the patients. These mannequins can be have access to simulation training.” North Vancouver in 1952, entering Although he retired in 1986, there.” physician lead at the SIM Centre. hooked up to real medical equipment.” Chestnut and Schafer hope to into a very busy family practice Corbett continued to work in the To learn how you, too, can make She says the goal of the program The new SIM Centre was made expand the SIM Centre’s outreach with Dr. George Cragg. Later, at medical field by overseeing hospital a difference by leaving a legacy gift is to provide physicians, nurses, possible thanks to a $1.5-million teaching program to the Sunshine age 55, he was appointed the first accreditations across Canada. When in your Will, please call Joanne technicians, residents and medical contribution from Lions Gate Hospital Coast and the Sea-to-Sky corridor medical director at Lions Gate his wife, Vera, was eventually McLellan at 604-904-3553. ■ students the opportunity to learn, Foundation, which includes a by next year. ■

8 WELLINTOTHEFUTURE • 2015/2016 Photos: Courtesy of Betty-Joan Traverse Photos: LGHF 2015/2016 • WELLINTOTHEFUTURE 9 EQUIPMENT LGH CAMPAIGN Lions Gate Hospital Foundation has launched a major campaign to ensure doctors at LGH have the technology they need to improve outcomes and save lives By Ann Collette

o continue to provide the very best in health The need for new equipment at LGH is ongoing and care for you and your family, the doctors, urgent. This is why the Foundation has launched nurses, specialists and staff at Lions Gate the LGH Equipment Campaign, aimed at replacing Hospital (LGH) need the right tools. That’s worn equipment and purchasing new technology for T why, throughout its 35-year history, the hospital. Lions Gate Hospital Foundation has “Our medical equipment is subject to a lot of wear made supporting the purchase of and tear,” says Dr. Hazel Park, medical director, LGH state-of-the-art equipment and Emergency Department and regional trauma director, technology a top priority. Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH). “Things get old and start to break down, and when they’re replaced, we’d like to replace them with the latest generation of that equipment, which costs money.” Park says the provincial government, through VCH, provides funding for hospital equipment at LGH. However, in these austere financial times, budgets are tight. There is simply less money available to replace worn or aging medical equipment as quickly as would be ideal: “Sometimes it can be a year or two wait to replace a piece of equipment, and that’s where we struggle." In addition to replacing worn equipment, the campaign hopes to purchase new medical technologies. “There are advances in diagnostic and interventional equipment that we know can help our patients, like the high-resolution, large-screen SonoSite portable ultrasound the Foundation recently purchased for our trauma room,” says Park. “The much larger screen and the clearer images produced by this ultrasound are invaluable to helping our trauma team with the assessments and procedures required in treating critically ill patients.” With the Foundation’s help, LGH is hoping to acquire even more state-of-the-art medical equipment and technology for medical teams throughout the hospital. “The bottom line for all of us is delivering safe, quality patient care,” says Park. “We know that having the appropriate equipment will help us achieve that goal.”

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Lions Gate Hospital needs your help in funding much-needed equipment that will improve patient MATERNITY NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT care and save lives. Bilisoft Phototherapy System – $8,000 Neopuff Infant T-Piece Resuscitator – $1,250 All donations to our equipment campaign are gratefully Bili lights are used in phototherapy The Neopuff supports breathing in newborns in accepted for these and other priority equipment items. to treat jaundice in newborns. respiratory distress. It allows doctors to precisely If you’d like to purchase a piece of equipment shown here, Jaundice is caused by too control the depth, duration, volume and rate of breath. please include the item code in the accompanying donation much bilirubin, a by-product Although the need to perform positive pressure form. Learn more at www.lghfoundation.com or call us at created when old red blood ventilation on newborns is rare, it 604-984-5785. cells are replaced with does happen. With your help, the new ones. Foundation will bring the latest NEUROLOGY LGH’s current Bili lights are old and not easy Neopuff technology to LGH BVI 9400 Bladder Scanner – $20,000 to manoeuvre. The Foundation is looking to replace these to facilitate best practices in This scanner is a non-invasive, no-risk imaging with Bili lights with the ability to position and maximize newborn breathing support. tool that allows doctors to scan and assess bladder the focus of light around newborns. Item code: BIL Item code: NEO function without the need for more invasive examination procedures. The bladder scanner accurately monitors OPTHALMOLOGY/EYE SURGERY urinary function, thereby eliminating the Cataract Surgical Tray – $3,000 need for catheterizations – a leading cause Cataract surgical trays are used to reprocess, store and of hospital-acquired urinary tract infections. organize expensive and highly specialized cataract surgery Help the Foundation fund newer scanners, instruments, and protect them from damage. with better imaging and displays for LGH staff. ACUTE CARE LGH has made a major investment in state-of-the-art instruments for cataract Item code: BLA C450 Ceiling Lift – $20,000 surgery. Additional trays will maximize the life of these instruments by reducing This mechanical device is handling and optimizing reprocessing, thereby reducing the need for repairs. designed to safely transfer Item code: TRA patients from a hospital bed to a wheelchair, diagnostic table or other care situation. Additional ceiling lifts will allow LGH SURGERY staff to safely and comfortably transfer OMNI Retractor with Light Source – $30,000 patients with dignity and privacy, while also This specialized retractor holds open protecting themselves against lifting-related injuries. incisions for long, complex operations Item code: LIF and is vital for any major abdominal PHYSIOTHERAPY or vascular surgeries. Topro Taurus Hydraulic LGH currently has two UROLOGY Walker – $3,000 retractors with light source. Portable Cystoscope CYF-5 – $17,000 INTENSIVE CARE UNIT This hydraulic walker is a However, one must always be The portable cystoscope is a flexible instrument used N-85 End Tidal CO2 Monitor – $5,000 sturdy assistance device ready for use for trauma cases that to view the urethra and bladder. This advanced monitor is specially designed to meet may come to LGH. The Foundation An all-inclusive grab-and-go cystoscope kit provides used to spot check or the needs of larger patients hopes to secure a third set to accommodate doctors and surgeons at LGH with everything they need continuously monitor the who are relearning how to an increasing number of major abdominal to do a complete patient consultation. The Foundation respiration of patients. walk after a medical event. surgeries at LGH. Item code: RET plans to replace this technology (now heavily worn Patients who are very This heavy-duty walking from use) with advanced portable cystoscopes. sick, whose respiration is assistance device is in high Item code: CYS compromised, who are demand at LGH. With your EMERGENCY being transported, or who help, the Foundation plans LUCAS Chest Compression are under sedation, must to fund a second such System – $18,000 be closely monitored. The walker to help the patients This fully automated electromechanical Foundation wants to bring who need it. device performs CPR by delivering high- this system to LGH to Item code: WAL quality, uninterrupted chest compressions provide early warning of on a patient. respiratory compromise Performing manual chest and improve patient care. compressions on a patient in cardiac Item code: END arrest is both imprecise and physically tiring for staff. This life-saving device performs safe, consistent, efficient chest compressions that deliver improved blood flow to the brain and heart. With your help, we will bring this latest technology to LGH Emergency. Item code: LUC

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A Doctor’s Perspective

In medicine, technology is advancing at unprecedented speed, and doctors are increasingly dependent upon these state-of-the-art tools to continue to deliver best-practices patient care. Unfortunately, over time technological advances, along with normal wear from heavy use, render a lot of medical equipment obsolete, leading to the need to replace, upgrade or change equipment. Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find any department at LGH that isn’t in need of new equipment. However, to meet that need, and for equipment to remain current, requires a substantial financial investment. That’s where Lions Gate Hospital Foundation is playing a crucial role, with the launch of its equipment campaign. With your support, the Foundation will ensure our doctors get the new equipment and state-of-the-art medical technology they need to provide the best of care to everyone in our community.

Dr. Dana Haaf President, Medical Staff Lions Gate Hospital

BY THE NUMBERS Medical equipment is subject to a tremendous amount of wear simply through heavy use. To put things in perspective, last year at Lions Gate Hospital there were:

• 134,000 diagnostic scans • 58,000 emergency department visits • 15,000 surgeries • 14,150 cataract surgeries • 1,430 births • 740 joint replacements

Learn more about the LGH Equipment Campaign at www.lghfoundation.com or contact Lions Gate Hospital Foundation at 604-984-5785. Lions Gate Hospital Foundation, 231 East 15th Street, North Vancouver, BC V7L 2L7 E-mail: [email protected] Charitable Business No. (BN) 11902 0907 RR0001

LGH EQUIPMENT CAMPAIGN Dr. Allan Burgmann

“Across the The Djavad Mowafaghian UBC Medical board, we Education Centre is Lions Gate’s new saw a 60- to hub for teaching the next generation of medical professionals. The Centre is also 70-per-cent the site of the new Kevin and Patricia Huscroft Coastal Simulation Room – reduction in a state-of-the-art facility that allows interventions. medical professionals, staff and students to practise medical procedures using Clearly, just life-like, computer-controlled mannequins. being in this building has been INTO therapeutic.” THE LIGHT – Dr. Allan Burgmann

A year after it opened, The HOpe Centre has exceeded all expectations, becoming the healing heart of mental health services on the North Shore By Ann Collette (Above) The Blenz Coffee shop, located on the main floor of the HOpe Centre, is a social enterprise partnership between the Canadian Mental Health Association, Blenz Coffee and Vancouver Coastal Health. A popular stop for LGH staff, patients and visitors, the cheery, sunlit café provides supportive full-time employment for people recovering from mental health issues; (right) he word “transformative” The lower floor of the HOpe Centre is home to a brand-new BC Emergency Health Services ambulance station for the North Shore. gets bandied around The 8,866-square-foot facility features covered bays for the ambulances and more storage space for equipment and supplies, as pretty freely when well as larger, more comfortable crew quarters for busy paramedics. people talk about new projects and programs, says Burgmann. “The day we moved, “The same number of patients are The HOpe Centre’s healing Tbut with The Greta and Robert H.N. I saw him sitting in his new room on the ward now, with the same influence doesn’t end when patients Ho Psychiatry and Education Centre and he was crying. He said, ‘what level of acuity, [but] to go up there are discharged. All of the commu- (The HOpe Centre) at Lions Gate have I done to deserve this beautiful now, it’s so quiet and tranquil and nity’s outpatient services are also Hospital, it could not be more accu- space?’ That really hit home with me.” therapeutic.” located at the Centre, so that when rate. Since opening its doors in late The positive impact of the new In addition to providing patients someone is admitted upstairs, case 2014, the $62-million HOpe Centre facility on patients and staff has far with privacy, the HOpe Centre managers can come up and start has not only revolutionized the care exceeded expectations. Psychiatrist also provides shared spaces where developing a relationship to ensure of patients with mental illness on Dr. Arvind Kang collected data patients can heal together, including the patient has continuity of care the North Shore, it has become the on medication use, the need for a bright outdoor area to the south when he or she leaves. gold standard for the entire region. additional medications (for sleep, and a therapeutic group space with While the HOpe Centre has first “The whole transition to the anxiety or agitation), and the need a fantastic north-facing view of the and foremost provided a healing HOpe Centre has been amazing,” for other interventions during the North Shore mountains. heart for the delivery of mental says Dr. Allan Burgmann, head of six weeks leading up to the move “We’re seeing the true kindness health care for the community, it in-patient psychiatry at LGH. In a into the new building. She then did of people coming out, even at their has obviously exceeded its mandate. single day, patients were moved the same for the six weeks following most challenging moment in their “This building has really helped from the darkness of the rundown, the move. illness,” says Burgmann. “There’s erode the stigma of mental illness,” shared rooms of the old activation “Across the board, we saw a a 20-year-old guy, who has schizo- says Burgmann. “There’s a Blenz centre into the light of tranquil 60- to 70-per-cent reduction in phrenia and is acutely psychotic, coffee shop that everyone in our private patient rooms. Each new all of these interventions,” says who always makes sure that an community can enjoy, as well as a room features its own bathroom. Burgmann. “Clearly, just being in elderly patient gets seated first at medical school to add energy and “What really struck me was the this building has been therapeutic. the lunch table and that she gets vibrancy to the building. It’s like day reaction of one particular patient “In the old building there her meal tray. It’s just that kind of and night, and we can’t thank the – a very stoic military guy who was The HOpe Centre’s bright, spacious meeting room features a spectacular view of the was this constant level of high- community spirit you see permeate community and the Foundation with us for help with depression,” North Shore mountains. stimulation chaos,” adds Burgmann. this space.” enough for finally making it happen.”■

10 WELLINTOTHEFUTURE • 2015/2016 Photos: Paul Joseph; LGHF Photos: Paul Joseph; LGHF 2015/2016 • WELLINTOTHEFUTURE 11 DONOR PROFILES (Left to right) Dr. Les Janz with Barbara and Julian Kirstiuk THANK YOU FOR MY SON Kazue Potter chose being a monthly donor as her way to thank Lions Gate Hospital for saving her son’s life By Ann Collette When Creedon subsequently performed Barbara’s mastectomy, he discovered a secondary cancer site, It’s been 29 years since Kazue Potter a team of specialists to do the surgery,” which he removed at the same time. first heard the news that her then remembers Kazue. “By 8 pm that “Barbara is here today, because 14-year-old son, Craig, and his day, he was in the operating room.” of Dr. Janz and Dr. Creedon,” says friend, Steve, had been struck down While Craig’s brain surgery Julian, whose subsequent gifts of by a drunk driver as they walked went well, it was clear the seriously gratitude were used to develop two home from Handsworth Secondary injured teen wasn’t out of the woods. special rooms at LGH – one in each School. Even now, her memories of Two days after his initial surgery, physician’s name. that life-changing day remain vivid. the doctors operated to stop uncon- “Les was always very involved “Steve was thrown onto a nearby trolled bleeding, while blood in the in the emergency at Lions Gate, so lawn and died instantly,” says lungs necessitated a tracheotomy we knew that was meaningful to Kazue. “Craig was thrown 30 so he could breath. Not long after, Giving with a him,” says Julian. “We decided to metres and landed on concrete.” Craig was wheeled back into the sponsor the Dr. Les Janz Room as Although Craig was alive, he operating room to remove blood (Left to right) Kazue Potter with her son part of the Emergency Department had sustained a severe head injury. clots from his brain, and doctors Craig (here and below left) Personal Touch redevelopment. He was immediately taken to Lions temporarily removed a small section Feeling an emotional connection to people and programs “In fact, the last time I was in the Gate Hospital, where doctors and of his skull just behind the ear to emergency, I found myself in that nurses sprang into action. help reduce the pressure in his head. and his mom’s tireless devotion, is what has long inspired Barbara and Julian Kirstiuk to very room,” he adds with a chuckle. “His head injury was so bad Craig had been in a coma for lives “a good and happy life.” He lend their support to the Foundation The couple also sponsored the that the hospital needed to bring in seven weeks, when he finally also feels a deep affection for the By Ann Collette Dr. Kerry Creedon Minimally opened his eyes. many people he’s come to know at Invasive Operating Room, a facility Not long after, he Lions Gate. that has dramatically increased the was well enough to “I call it my home away from arbara and Julian place on Keats Island in September hospital’s capacity to do minimally be transferred to home,” he says with a chuckle. Kirstiuk are very much 2007. Today, eight years later, Camp invasive surgical procedures, GF Strong for eight It wasn’t long after Craig’s a study in quiet, unas- Kerry, under the direction of now greatly reducing waitlists and months of rehabilita- surgery, care and recovery at Lions suming grace. Although executive director Heather Mohan, healing time for patients. tion and recovery. Gate Hospital that Kazue decided the North Shore couple continues to provide loving comfort Recently, the couple again Although it's been to do something to give back to the Bhave long been generous supporters and counsel to bereaved children honoured their longtime family almost three decades people who saved her son’s life. of Lions Gate Hospital Foundation, and families at its new home at the physician by establishing the since Craig had his “I thought that if we donated they’ve always shied from the Mel Zajac Ranch. Dr. Les Janz Leadership Award. accident, Kazue has to Lions Gate Hospital Foundation, limelight of public recognition, “Our grandchildren Avery [12] “Les Janz was a great leader of never lost sight of the then they could use that money to preferring instead to train its glow and Hudson [10] are still involved the medical staff at Lions Gate,” key role Lions Gate continue to help other families the on the people and programs that with Camp Kerry as sort of peer says Julian. “The Dr. Les Janz Award Hospital played in way they helped us,” says Kazue. have touched their lives. counsellors,” says Julian proudly. makes it possible for promising saving her son’s life. At first, Kazue participated as a The couple first became involved “In fact, the program has been so Lions Gate hospital staff to get the “The doctors, regular donor, opting to remember with the Foundation when their successful that there are now a additional training they need to be nurses and staff Lions Gate Hospital Foundation at daughter-in-law, Kerry, passed away number of satellite Camp Kerrys tomorrow’s medical leaders.” at Lions Gate were various times of the year. However, from cancer in 2006, leaving behind across Canada.” While Barbara and Julian are absolutely wonderful,” she recently decided to change her their son, Bob, and two young The inspiration for the proud of their association with the says a grateful Kazue. approach to supporting the Founda- grandchildren. Kirstiuks’s next involvement with Foundation, it’s evident that it pales “Even through the tion by becoming a monthly donor. “After Kerry died, Bob wondered the Foundation came when they in comparison to their feelings years since, they’ve “My daughter lives in Toronto, what to do with the money that had decided to pay tribute to their about the charitable efforts of the always been there so we go out to visit,” says Kazue. been donated to the Foundation in family doctor of more than 50 next generation of Kirstiuks. for us.” “I found that when we were away, lieu of flowers,” says Julian. “It was years, Dr. Les Janz, and LGH “Our granddaughter Avery held Now 43 years of I often forgot to send in my gift, Heather Mohan [then a bereavement surgeon Dr. Kerry Creedon. her own fundraiser at her school age, Craig, thanks so I decided to become a monthly co-ordinator and music therapist at “Les Janz always took incredible where she baked and sold cup- to years of intensive donor. It’s easy to do, and that way LGH] who came up with the idea of care of us,” says Julian. “He was cakes,” says Julian, as he and physiotherapy and I never forget.” a camp experience to help grieving the one who insisted Barbara go Barbara beam with obvious pride. speech therapy, For more information on the families.” for regular mammograms, which “She raised $500 for Camp Kerry!” together with some Monthly Giving Program, please The first Camp Kerry, which is how we found out she had Evidently, the apple has not helpful modifications contact Joanne McLellan at 604-904- Bob and the children attended, took breast cancer.” fallen far from the family tree. ■ to the family home 3553 or at [email protected].

12 WELLINTOTHEFUTURE • 2015/2016 Photo: Paul Joseph Photo: Paul Joseph 2015/2016 • WELLINTOTHEFUTURE 13 CHAIRMAN'S CIRCLE 2015 CHAIRMAN’S INVESTING IN EQUIPMENT TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES AND SAVE LIVES CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP *In addition to this year’s distributions, Lions Gate Hospital Foundation has LIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION is very proud and honoured to enjoy the dedicated support of many leading committed to a further $19 million to individuals and families. Their commitment and generosity has not only helped improve outcomes and save lives, Financial Summary be distributed in 2015-2017. Important it has inspired others to do the same. The Foundation is pleased to embrace this remarkable group of donors (each medical equipment purchases made by 2014-2015 Lions Gate Hospital Foundation over of whom has contributed $50,000* or more, cumulatively) in its prestigious Chairman’s Circle, and recognize their the past year include: ongoing leadership and devotion to improving health care. Many of our recent achievements are a direct result Lions Gate Hospital Foundation is pleased to provide the following of their generosity. For this, and for so much more, we thank them and you. *This amount will increase to $100,000 revenue, distribution and expense summary for the year ended June 30, 2015. effective June 30, 2016. At that time, all current Chairman’s Circle members will be grandfathered. $176,085 Flexible Ultrasound System – OR Anaesthesia/Urology VISIONARIES Dale Christy Dr. Robert & Katharine Fingland REVENUES 2014-2015 $ 52,459 Two Lifepack Defibrillators – Emergency Dr. Philip Cohen Ken & Mary Downie Fraser & Sheilah Grant Fundraising & Estate Gifts $ 49,122 Ultraviolet Light Rapid Disinfector – Bill & Bonnie Couling Nabih & Lynette Faris Jon & Lisa Greyell $14,520,776 Acute Care Robert H.N. & Greta Ho Ken & Joan Fowler Paul & Coryn Hemsley Investment & Other Income $ 14,404 Five Optiflow Oxygen Therapy Devices – ICU Margaret Hoar Frank Giustra Alan & Barb Holton $1,437,570 $ 14,100 Shower Room – Evergreen House Joe & Joanne Houssian Peter & Lynn Guernsey Richard & Lara Irwin $ 13,500 Spirometer with Cart – Respiratory Services Djavad Mowafaghian Kenneth G. & Sigrun Hanna Maebritte Jeffels TOTAL $15,958,346 $ 10,300 Parallel Bars – Rehabilitation Jim & Mary Pattison Mark & Carol Hannah Bob & Bobbie Kadlec $ 9,656 Two Commodes, Soft Seats & Belts – Betsy Smith Peggy Horne Pierre & Betty Lebel Kiwanis Care Centre Michael Smith Peter & Anne-Marie Kains Clive & Susan Lonsdale DISTRIBUTIONS & EXPENSES 2014-2015 $ 3,914 Tendon Harvester and Stripper – Rob Sutherland Julian & Barbara Kirstiuk Charles & Margaret Loo Distributions* OR Orthopedics Abdul & Hanifa Ladha Gordon & Barbara MacDougall $7,174,757 $ 1,136 Bottom Slider Sheets – North Shore BENEFACTORS Doreen Lougheed Reay & Lynda Mackay Administrative & Fundraising Expenses Home Support Roger & Sharon Brain Paul & Shirley MacPherson Irene McEwen $1,408,929 $ 498 Five Stethoscopes – Chemotherapy Clinic Michael & Dorine Chernoff Stewart & Sunny Marshall Geraldine McIntosh $ 304 Finger Pulse Oximeter – Emergency Kerry & Ginny Dennehy Bob & Brenda McGill Ken & Joanne Mellquist TOTAL $8,583,686 Bill Hatswell James & Carol Mercier Ian & Rosemary Mottershead Kevin & Patricia Huscroft Gerrit & Agnes Mey Ed Mowatt Donald & Ruth James Lynne Newton Dr. Arjang Nowtash FUNDING SOURCES Annemarie Locher Michael & Joy Phelps John O’Neill Individuals Joan Proudfoot Axel & Dawn Rehkatsch Ronald & Marjean Park 63% Azad & Yasmin Shamji Ken & Judy Rekrutiak Claude & Lorraine Rinfret Ian Telfer & Nancy Burke Bill & Heather Riedl Roberta Russell Daniel Russell & Cindy Dekker Tommy Russell LEADERS Dr. A. H. Somjee Rod & Jeannie Senft Organizations & Foundations Howard & Gail Addison Andy & Cheryl Szocs John M. Sibley & Carmen Thériault Ryan & Cindy Beedie David & Joanne Unruh William & Carol Slater 1% Patricia Bice Chuck & Pam Vidalin Ross & Ursula Southam Ruth Brodie Michael & Wendy Wan Graham & Kyra Stanley Peter & Heather Buckley Brent, Dona, Lisa & Mark Wolverton Millie Stewart Dan & Pauli-Ann Carriere Fred & Maureen Wright Jim & Julie Szabo Paul Chalmers & Barb Inglis Graham & Elaine Thody Helen Chaston PATRONS Bruce Waters & Beverley White Eric & Tracey Christiansen Larry & Joan Achtemichuk Fareed & Sharon Ahamed We would also like to recognize Doug & Shirley Argue those Chairman’s Circle members Laura-Lee Armstrong who have requested to remain Estates Robert & Barbara Atkinson anonymous. Interest, 16% Paul Balfour & Cynthia Miles Dividends & Other Shelagh Ballard For more on the Chairman’s Circle, Income Events Gerry & Lesley Barré visit www.lghfoundation.com or 9% Ron & Ann Barré contact Louise Campbell, director 11% Jim Conacher of development at 604-904-3561 Chairman's Circle members Richard & Caroline Duncan ([email protected]) The Foundation’s audited financial statements are available at www.lghfoundation.com

14 WELLINTOTHEFUTURE • 2015/2016 Photo: LGHF Photo: LGHF 2015/2016 • WELLINTOTHEFUTURE 15 Some of our customers get a little extra support. Seven years, 59,000 visits. When Lions Gate’s ER Department needed a hand ﬁ xing broken bones, we responded. The result, the Craftsman Collision Cast Clinic, has patched up a staggering 59,000 patients since it opened in 2008. As the ongoing sponsor of this wonderful facility, we are pleased and honoured to be helping so many people get back on their feet. After all, it’s in our nature to get wrapped up in our work.

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