Winter 2017 Foundation Report

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F o u n da ti o n WINTER 2017

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A HOLIDAY

MIRACLE In This Issue: THE FUTURE OF CARE

Donors like you made it possible for Mike and Lynn to receive emergency care and surgery close to home. On December 23, 2013 Mike and Lynn Baker of Kingston had their bags packed for a holiday visit with family out of town. They were supposed to arrive in Brampton that night. But Mike wasn’t feeling well. He started experiencing pain in his lower abdomen. “It was pain that was out of the norm for me. It was just different where I said [to Lynn], ‘You know, I’ve got to go in.” Lynn

knows that Mike has a pretty high pain tolerance. She also knows how much he doesn’t like visiting hospitals. So when Mike suggested that he needed to go to Urgent Care at the Hotel Dieu Hospital site, she got him there as fast as she could. Mike walked up to the desk of the triage nurse at the Hotel Dieu site and then suddenly, he passed out in front of her desk. The Urgent Care team whisked Continued on pg. 5...

Your guide to redeveloping the Kingston hospitals. p. 3

Your Impact The impact of your gifts p. 4

From the Heart A special gift from a grateful family p. 6


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