The Kincardine and Community Health Care Foundation is receiving community support as it aims to redevelop the local hospital.
The foundation says they received a gift of $250,000 over five years from Dr. Jason Murray, a local physician, hospital advocate and member of the campaign team, as well as from his wife Stacey and son Matthew, which will go towards the redevelopment campaign goal of $18 million.
Capital Campaign Manager Mark Womack says the campaign, which has seen significant community support, aims to contribute to the $79 million redevelopment of the Kincardine Hospital.
“We are going to be expanding emergency and medical imaging, adding an MRI machine, expanding our lab services. It’s a campaign that is going for about five years. It started about a year and a half ago, really got it ramped up in the last year,” says Womack.
Womack says the campaign is nearly half way, as they have passed the $7 million mark.
“We have still got about four years in the campaign left to go to raise that additional money, but we are hoping the shovels will go in the ground in about two years from now,” says Womack. “The people in Kincardine and Huron-Kinloss deserve a quality hospital with an MRI and all of the components that they need to ensure, as we say, healthcare for generations.”
In recognition of the gift, a trauma room in the new emergency department will be named for Dr. Murray and his family.
Those who would like to support the campaign can contact Womack at kfcapitalcampaign@outlook.com or visit the foundation site here.
