Your Donations Keep more Cape Bretoners Home for Care

When you support the Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation, you are helping purchase the equipment doctors and nurses need to provide the best care to their patients. You also increasing the level of specialized services available at the Regional Hospital, such as cancer and palliative care.

Since 1991, in partnership with our community, the Regional Hospital Foundation has raised more than $15 million to purchase equipment and complete enhancements to the Regional Hospital.

Some of the past projects our community has made possible include:

• The expanision of the Cape Breton Cancer Centre, which now provides radiation therapy to 97% of cancer patient at home in Cape Breton
• The creation of the An Cala Palliative Care Unit, which is a comforting place for patients who need pain management or end of life care
• The purchase of a $600,000 state-of-the-art monitoring system for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, which allows doctors and nurses to properly monitor the more 300 pre-mature and ill babies who rely on this Unit every year
• The purchase of a MRI and Bone Densitometer for the Cape Breton Regional Hospital

For more information on some of the projects and equipment funded by the Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation, please click here.

Some of the Regional Hospital priority equipment needs for 2011 includes:

The Harriss Emergency Department needs four new cardiac monitors. These monitors allow our doctors and nurses to diagnose and treat nearly 5,000 patients each year. Our current monitors are 10 years old, and we are at risk of losing them. The cost of replacing these is $100,000 ($25,000 per monitor).

The Pediatrics Unit needs a defibrillator monitor, which helps doctors and nurses care for critically ill children who, otherwise, might be transferred to the IWK in Halifax for care. This monitor costs $12,000.

The Pediatrics Unit also needs three vital signs monitors, which improve the ability to more accurately assess these special patients. Vital signs monitors cost $6,000 each.

The Palliative Care Unit has to replace a Pain Pump to help staff control the amount of pain medication that is administered to palliative care patients, which costs $7,000.

The Cape Breton Cancer Centre needs two SBRT Patient Mobilization Units, which allows the Centre to perform radiation therapy on patients who were previously referred to Halifax for radiation associated with prostate cancer, as well as certain head and neck cases. These units cost $5,000 each.

The Cancer Centre also needs a CIVCO Carbon Filter Belly Board which reduces the amount of radiation provided to patients receiving treatment in the pelvic region. This costs $5,300.

The Renal Dialysis Unit needs two Reverse Osmosis Units. These Units allow doctors and nurses to provide dialysis to patients who are in other areas of the hospital, like the Intensive Care Unit, and are too sick to be visit the Renal Dialysis Unit. This costs $9,000 each.

The Intensive Care Unit needs a Vigileo Monitor to properly monitor patients’ blood values when they are diagnosed with severe sepsis. This costs $18,000.

The Intensive Care Unit also needs a new ventialtor, which costs $58,000, to provide the best respiratory care to their patients.