News Releases - 2000

West Park Hospital receives $40,000 gift from Weston Lions Club to Help People with TB

Toronto, Ontario – Ontario's only in-patient TB unit received another infusion from the Weston community, as the Weston Lions Club donated $40,000 to the West Park Hospital Foundation to support the hospital's renovated TB Service.

Ten other local community agencies were also presented with donations as part of the Weston Lions Club's Millennium Project at the March 8th evening dinner reception.

"We wanted to do something special for the new millennium by supporting projects that were innovative and beneficial to our community," says Jim Fraser, president of the Weston Lions Club. "We know of the great job West Park does, and we saw a need for the treatment of TB in our community. We simply wanted to get involved in whatever way we could."

In previous years, the Weston Lions Club has donated nearly $20,000 to support West Park's Special Care Service for patients with Alzheimer's disease, and the Gage Transition to Independent Living Service, which helps adults with disabilities learn to live independently in assisted living environments.

"Community support has always played a significant role at the hospital," says Barry Monaghan, president and CEO of West Park Hospital. "The response from our donors to our efforts to raise money for the TB Service has been gratifying. The hospital greatly appreciates the Weston Lions Club gift, which makes the club a partner in the fight against TB in our communities."

West Park's renovated 16-bed TB Service features a state-of-the-art air filtration system that cleans the air coming into, and going out of, the unit. The $1.4 million renovation was made possible by the Ministry of Health, which fulfilled a Health Services Restructuring Commission directive that the hospital construct a renovated facility for the treatment of complex TB cases, and a half-million dollar contribution from donors to the West Park Hospital Foundation.

West Park Hospital is the designated western regional adult rehabilitation centre for the Greater Toronto Area and a local provider of complex continuing care and long-term care services.

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For more information, please contact:

Sandra Fawcett, Director, Public Relations
Phone: (416) 243-3730
Email: sandra.fawcett@westpark.org