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More ORs shut down for summer by Jeff Nagel HOSPITALS AROUND the Fraser
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The Surrey Food Bank’s Marilyn Herrmann receives an $80,000 cheque from the Cedar Club Society – Knights of Columbus 4767. The club recently sold a property and is giving away more than $1 million to 30 charities.
A doozy of a donation $80,000 for Surrey Food Bank just a fraction of Knights’ $1 million gift by Boaz Joseph MARILYN HERRMANN was a bit nervous setting up for the group photo at a Fleetwood restaurant. The executive director of the Surrey Food Bank was used to cheque presentations, but not like this one.
“I’ve never held an $80,000 cheque in my hand before,” she told a group of seven Cedar Club Society members who made the donation to the food bank on Tuesday. It was $80,184 to be exact. The food bank is one of dozens of charities to benefit from the move by the 55-member chapter of the Knights of
Columbus 4767, which operates in Surrey and Delta. Tony Upton, one of the Cedar Club’s directors, says the more than $1 million in donations was not the original plan. In fact, the bonanza for the charities has been decades in the making.
Health region are closing more operating rooms than usual this summer as a cost-cutting measure. Fraser Health spokesman Roy Thorpe confirmed the normal 25-per-cent summer reduction in OR time – because of surgeons, staff and patients booking holidays – will be 35 per cent this year. “The closures are a little bit more than would be done in a usual summer,” he said. Fraser Health still expects to perform the usual 80,000 surgeries in total in 2010, he said, by catching up on any backlog over the fall and winter. “We’re not expecting any reductions in the number of surgeries performed,” Thorpe said. “We’re hoping Roy Thorpe to gain some efficiencies by doing more or the same number of surgeries with slightly less OR time.” The health authority hopes to wring $7 million in savings this year
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