2015/2016 THIS MAGAZINE IS BROUGHT TO YOU COURTESY OF CRAFTSMAN COLLISION LGH Equipment Campaign Giving doctors at LGH the tools they need to improve outcomes and save lives plus • HOpe Centre Exceeds Expectations • SIM Centre Transforms Teaching • 50 Years of Diabetes Care PM 40065475 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.