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There’s a new structure visible at Sechelt Hospital, and staff are calling it the Zen Den. Physical distancing during COVID has been a particular challenge for health care staff at Sechelt Hospital who do not leave the hospital grounds when outfitted in hospital scrubs and personal protective coverings.  During a typical...

If you were a doctor in the emergency department at Sechelt Hospital, what would you want for Christmas? Bear in mind the hospital’s ER sees over 19,000 patients each year, at all hours of the day and night. It turns out what you want is something that will improve care for...

In March this year, Sechelt Hospital Foundation established a Covid-19 Emergency Support Fund with donor funds to support our health care teams on the Sunshine Coast as they prepared for and responded to the health emergency. Our $100,000 Covid-19 Emergency Support Fund was immediately, and generously, matched by the Sunshine...

Major donation allows number of critical care beds to double. Patients young and old who need heart monitoring at Sechelt Hospital now have access to a brand new fleet of critical care cardiac monitors. The almost half-a-milliondollar state-of-the art upgrade happened in April, and comes thanks to the Sechelt Hospital Foundation’s...

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Submitted by Angelina Theilmann, Sechelt Hospital Foundation / Coast Reporter March 7, 2020 03:44 PM [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='' up='20' down='20'] Foundation upgrades and kid-sizes medical imaging equipment The Sechelt Hospital Foundation has declared Sechelt Hospital fit for the Sunshine Coast’s little superheroes. Foundation executive director Jane Macdonald said generous donations allowed her organization...

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