Royal Inland Hospital.
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November 04, 2021 - 7:00 PM
A name was chosen for the new patient care tower at Royal Inland Hospital this week.
The tower will be named the Phil & Jennie Gaglardi Tower after their foundation donated $15M towards the building.
Heidi Coleman, the CEO of the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation, said the donation was the biggest the hospital has ever received.
“All of the money is going to the new tower and the current hospital, and most of it is going toward equipment,” she said. “Every donation counts and we are grateful for each one.”
Phil and Jennie Gaglardi are well known in the community.
“I have learned a lot about Phil and Jennie Gaglardi over my years living in Kamloops and doing my own research,” Coleman said. “Both of them were Pentecostal ministers who really contributed to the community in terms of doing Sunday school and making hospital visits. They loved this community and planted roots here.”
The tower is going to be a new wing and the front face of the hospital. She said there will be a mental health and substance abuse floor, a new neonatal intensive care unit, a new adolescent mental health unit, trauma and rehabilitation unit and stroke unit among many other care system advances.
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Phase 1 of the Phil & Jennie Gaglardi Tower will be finished in July while Phase 2 projected to be completed in 2024.
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