The City of Quinte West’s Corporate Finance Committee is recommending council approve a $1 million grant to the Trenton Memorial Hospital Foundation.
The $1 million would be spread over five years at $200,000 per year starting with this year’s budget which has yet to be set.
This would be an increase of $50,000 per year over what the city had been granting the Foundation.
The Foundation will use the money to buy priority medical equipment as senior government does not pay for medical equipment. The money must be raised from the public the hospital serves.
In making its request TMH Foundation Chair Paul Ferguson said a vibrant well-equipped hospital was crucial to a growing and thriving community.
Quinte Health Care President Stacey Daub said the partnership between Quinte West and QHC has been incredible, adding that she was pleasantly surprised by the depth of commitment and passion for TMH amongst the population.
Over the next five years the Foundation projects it will need to buy almost $5 million worth of medical equipment.
The most expensive items on the equipment list are a mammography unit at $688,000, and three anesthetic machines totalling $606,000.
Other items include three echo/ultrasound machines, a thulium laser, a green light laser, a phaco device, cystoscopes, orthopedic tower, and stretchers, beds, patient lifts,
and vital signs monitors.
