Kevin Shoesmith
Contributing Writer
THE official opening of Lions Gate
Hospital’s newly renovated, multipls-
room pediatric unit took place last
Thursday.

The $825,000 improvement project was a

collective effort of the provincial Ministry of
Health, the Greater Vancouver regional health

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district and the Lion's Gate Hospital
Foundation.

The foundation raised $300,000 from cor-
porate sponsors, service clubs and private sector
donon while the difference was funded by the
provinces and the health district, said Sheilah
Grant, the director of the development founda-

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Wednesday, May 6, 1998 — North Shore News — #3

Lions Gate upgrades children’s care .

Newly renovated pediatric unit opened

Thursday, 75 to 100 people were on hand at
7:30 a.m. to view the new care facility which
has 10 self-contained patient rooms, a parent
and a tecn lounge, a play room and a day care
room, cach of which is named after a sponsor
which donated more than $20,000 te the pro-
ject.

Renovations to an existing third-floor ward

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now affords parents the chance to stav in the
same room as their children while they are in
hospital. Something that couldn't be done in
the old fifth-floor ward.

“It’s a brighter, happicr place because the
parents can actually be with the kids now,” said
Grant.

The foundation's campaign began in May
fast year. Construction began the following

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