da Vinci surgical robot<\/a> \u2014 nicknamed “Mona” \u2014 has helped surgeons operate on dozens of cancer patients who would not have been eligible for surgery before HSC acquired the robot.\u00a0<\/p>\n“With the surgical robot, many patients are going home the day after surgery, some even the same day \u2014 cancer-free and without pain,” Hursh said.<\/p>\n
Dr. Chris Christodoulou, Shared Health’s interim president and CEO, said the specialized tools acquired through the fundraising campaign have helped reduce wait times, hospital stays and post-surgery pain, leading to “better health outcomes for Manitobans.”<\/p>\n
“Every day, thousands of patients come through our doors \u2014 patients who require specialized, cutting-edge care that this donation helps us to provide,” Christodoulou said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
HSC chief operating officer Dr. Shawn Young said most families in Manitoba will need care at the Winnipeg facility at some point in their lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n
HSC staff provide complex care, including cancer and trauma services, that wouldn’t be possible without cutting-edge equipment, he said.<\/p>\n
“This [funding] allows us to make investments in those tools and technologies that will allow us to help provide care in a much more advanced way,” Young said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We need to be there for folks, and being able to be tooled with the most modern equipment gives us all such an advantage,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fabrice Morin, Canada Life’s Canada president and chief operating officer, said the $1-million donation just made sense for the insurance company.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We believe in the values of health accessibility, health affordability, health efficacy, quality of health. That’s so aligned with the mission of HSC here in our hometown of Winnipeg,” he said during Thursday’s announcement.<\/p>\n
“It’s very important that we’re close to the communities that we serve,” he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Health Sciences Centre Foundation says a new $1-million from Winnipeg-based insurance company Canada Life will help pay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-218785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}