Hospital Foundation under new leadership
Our speaker on August 7th was Veronica Carroll who recently took over leadership of the Delta Hospital Foundation from Teresa Cooper.
Ms Carroll has almost 26 years of fundraising experience, including in health care, social services and recreation services. Most recently, she was CEO of the hospital foundation at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, where about $3 million was raised from the community for a new intensive care unit.
Veronica showed club members statistics on the steady increasing visits to Delta Hospital Emergency ward that have increased faster than population. She stated that 70% of the lab tests at the hospital are from emergency room admissions.
The hospital is going through a 20 year planning process that includes increasing the hospital from 58 to 105 beds, increased mental health services, new surgical day care and new long term care facilities.
Veronica then answered a number of questions on the hospital and the foundation.