New Westminster, BC, October 26, 2021 — Support exceptional care for BC’s most seriously ill and injured patients and you could win! Take part in Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation’s 50/50 lottery today!
Entering the final days for the final jackpot of the year.
Purchase your tickets now to Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation’s 50/50 lottery.
The jackpot has already reached $54,000, how high will the jackpot climb? When your healthcare heroes win, so do you! Calvin Parsons, the June winner, took home a prize of $38,955 and Don McLaren, the September winner, took home a prize of $47,395. You could be next when we draw on November 4!
A win for you = a win for our heroes!
Tickets are 10 for $10, 50 for $20 and 200 for $40!
Buy tickets today! Tickets must be purchased on the lottery’s website.
Deadline to purchase tickets is Wednesday, November 3, 2021 at 11:59:59 p.m. Enter now for a chance to win big and help Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation. The lucky winner gets half the final jackpot!
About Royal Columbian Hospital
From the beginning, Royal Columbian Hospital has stood at the heart of health care in British Columbia. Created by visionary pioneers to provide compassionate care to those building a new province, we have participated in the social and economic changes of British Columbia since 1862. Today, we are one of British Columbia’s busiest hospitals, serving a population of more than 1.8 million people. We are a regional referral hospital for cardiac, trauma, neurosciences, high-risk maternity and neonatal intensive care. No other hospital in the province provides all of these services, at this level of care, on one site. We provide the highest level of care to the most critically ill and injured from throughout the province.
Royal Columbian is also undergoing one of the most ambitious hospital redevelopments in Canadian history – a $1.49 billion transformation which the Foundation is supporting every step of the way.
A Transformation in Critical Care
Caring for some of the province’s most seriously ill and injured patients, Royal Columbian Hospital is in many ways defined by its critical care services. With a range of services that include trauma care, heart and lung life support, comprehensive stroke care, and most recently in its role as a primary COVID-19 site during the pandemic, Royal Columbian is one of BC’s busiest and most specialized critical care hospitals.
Royal Columbian’s redevelopment will create a 60-bed Critical Care Unit on the fourth floor of the new Acute Care Tower to increase our capacity. This unit will serve all of Fraser Health and will contain 28 Intensive Care Unit beds, 17 High Acuity Unit beds, and 15 Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit beds. Additionally, the fourth floor will include a 17-bed Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, which will care for critically ill non-surgical cardiac patients, and seven additional medical surgical beds.
Patients and families are an integral part of the critical care patient journey. Patients admitted to the Critical Care Unit have often experienced a traumatic and unexpected event. The team provides patient/family-centred care in the critical care inpatient setting. This is achieved by providing for family needs and involving families in the planning and delivery of care. In support of improving the individual experience of care, patient families will be an important part of the care team by ensuring there are suitable nearby amenities and zones within the patient room. There is a dedicated volunteer on the Critical Care Unit floor during the day to support families.
At the core of critical care services is the Intensive Care Unit. The ICU is a specialized unit designed to care for critically ill or injured patients whose conditions are life-threatening and who require comprehensive critical care and constant monitoring. Patients requiring this level of care are guaranteed access without exception, and the patients that are seen require the most advanced respiratory (lung/breathing) support in all its forms of mechanical ventilation and extracorporeal respiratory support (ECLS/heart/lung bypass machine), and have the most severe forms of multi-organ failure (brain, kidneys, heart, gastrointestinal tract).
Patients treated are 16 and older, including maternity patients and those suffering from traumatic injuries, car collisions, head injuries, drowning, cardiac arrest, severe infections like COVID-19, sepsis (infection), post-op surgical patients and brain tumours.
The High Acuity Unit (HAU) is a specially staffed and equipped section of a Critical Care program that provides a level of care between intensive care and general ward care. The HAU is considered a step-down or transitional unit for ICU patients as their condition improves to the point they no longer need the level of care provided in the ICU. The unit provides intensive monitoring without life support as defined by invasive ventilation, and supports trauma as well as both surgical and non-surgical patients.
The Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit (CSICU) provides the highest level of critical care for the region’s cardiac population. Royal Columbian Hospital is the only centre in Fraser Health providing both cardiac surgery and interventional cardiac services.
Get your tickets today. Stand by our healthcare heroes and help to provide care to those in need. Not only are you supporting healthcare in BC, but you can win big too!
Discover more about the Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation.
*open to BC residents only, must be 19+ to play, BCLC Licence #129087. Actual odds of winning are dependent on the number of tickets sold. Know your limit, play within it.
