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September 2018
Ste. Anne Hospital HeliPad Nearly Ready The cement has been poured for the new STARS Helipad outside of the Ste. Anne Hospital and it will be just a few weeks before it is operational. Lorraine Roziere, Executive Director of the Ste. Anne Hospital Fund, said the new Helipad will be a major convenience for both the community, and for all incidents requiring STARS all the way to the Ontario border. “The Aerodrome at Ste. Anne’s hospital allows us to reach a higher standard of health care for years to come,” she noted. “We are hoping to be up and running by November.
Anticipated costs of the project are approximately $300,000 which has been raised through a variety of fundraisers and donations. The money has been used to construct a concrete pad on the east side of the hospital and install special lighting. The HeliPad is almost ready for Roziere noted that response and touchdown as the funraising target medical crews will have to be trained is nearly reached and the construction phases move ahead. on how to use it and the pad has to be approved by Transport Canada. STARS currently lands adjacent to the RM of Ste. Anne office on the south closed it down last fall. the Ste-Anne Hospital for the purchase The Ste-Anne Hospital Fund was of equipment and for construction projend of town. There was a site on location previously, but Transport Canada founded in 1988 to collect funds for ects not funded by Manitoba Health.