Saskatchewan Health Regions Distribution | 2002-05
Group Medical Services made its second major surplus distribution to Saskatchewan health regions in 2002, donating $200,000 to communities across Saskatchewan - building on the distribution made in 1998.
The first major announcement came in April, 2003, when the Dr. Noble Health Foundation in Swift Current received a cheque for $10,000 to upgrade its cardiac diagnostic equipment. In Regina, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit received $50,000 toward the purchase of a ventilator at the Regina General Hospital. In Saskatoon, $30,000 was given to purchase imaging equipment for the province's first breast cancer centre.
Funds were distributed to all health regions in Saskatchewan in support of health-related programming, modern equipment and upgrades to aging infrastructure in a total of 19 communities.
Group Medical Services makes a $30,000 donation to the Saskatoon City Hospital Foundation to purchase equipment for Saskatchewan's first breast health centre.
| Donation History: 2002-05 | ||
| Community | Distribution | Purpose |
| Shaunavon | $2,500 | Equipment for health care facility |
| Swift Current | $10,000 | Have a Healthy Heart Campaign - Regional Cardiac Lab diagnostic equipment |
| Unity | $4,500 | 2 chair stretchers for ambulance service |
| Melfort | $1,666 | Nursing home furnishings for Parkland Place |
| Nipawin | $1,667 | Digital scale for newborns |
| Tisdale | $1,667 | Flexible sigmoidoscope for Tisdale Hospital |
| Regina | $50,000 | Neonatal ventilator for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
| Kipling | $9,000 | Portable respirator for stabilization and transport of patient |
| Oxbow | $5,000 | Autoclave to sterilize equipment & instruments |
| Weyburn | $10,000 | Holter monitor, recovery room stretcher |
| Melville | $4,500 | Melville & District Hospital - vital signs monitor |
| Yorkton | $11,000 | Hemodialysis machines for Regional Health Centre |
| Prince Albert | $13,000 | VAC Advances Therapy System |
| Fort Qu'Appelle | $5,000 | Audiometer, addictions videos, large paraffin bath, Lifeline Emergency Response Unit |
| Pipestone | $6,500 | Beam scale, vision test boxes, joint models, hot pack hydrocollator audiometer |
| Saskatoon | $30,000 | Breast Cancer Centre - Saskatoon City Hospital Foundation |
| Assiniboia | $4,500 | New hospital beds |
| Moose Jaw | $12,000 | Patient lift system and tub |
| Battleford | $9,000 | Shower/bath chair for residents of Battleford's District Care Centre |
| La Ronge | $2,500 | Emergency vehicle response equipment |
| * Additional $6,000 commitment paid out to health regions | ||
| $200,000 | ||
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