White Rock hospital foundation passes $5M goal for patient dining<\/p>\n
Published 6:00 am Thursday, August 27, 2026<\/p>\n
Peace Arch Hospital + Community Health Foundation has officially surpassed its $5 million fundraising goal in its efforts to transform patient dining in White Rock. <\/p>\n
The foundation thanked the community for its generosity in enabling Healing Starts Here: A Campaign for a New Production Kitchen at Peace Arch Hospital n in a release.<\/p>\n
The transformation is already taking shape, the release shared, with construction approximately 75 per cent complete, and equipment installation now underway. Construction is expected to be substantially complete by the end of this year, with the first patient meal from the new production kitchen slated to be served in early 2027.<\/p>\n
\u201cFood is more than fuel, especially for our most vulnerable patients,\u201d foundation CEO Stephanie Beck said in the release. \u201cSurpassing our $5 million goal is an incredible milestone, and we are deeply grateful to every donor who believed in this vision and helped make it possible. Together, we are creating a new approach to food at Peace Arch Hospital \u2014 one that brings nourishment, comfort, choice and healing to the patient experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Chef Matthew Richmond, manager of support services and food operations at Peace Arch Hospital, the project represents an opportunity to bring more heart \u2014 and flavour \u2014 to hospital food.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal is to create food that patients genuinely look forward to eating,\u201d Richmond said in the release. \u201cThis new kitchen gives our chefs and dietitians the tools to prepare fresh, nutritious meals while offering patients more choice and a more personalized dining experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thanks to the community\u2019s largesse, additional opportunities that can add value to the project and the surrounding site are being explored. <\/p>\n
The foundation is currently exploring innovative additions such as a fresh vegetable and herb garden and a potential outdoor dining space for staff, patients, and guests \u2014 creating opportunities to connect the food being grown with the meals being prepared in the new kitchen.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur donors have allowed us to dream bigger,\u201d Beck said. \u201cWe are excited to explore how we can build on this project with features that connect food, community, wellness, and healing. We\u2019ll share more as these additional projects take shape.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White Rock hospital foundation passes $5M goal for patient dining Published 6:00 am Thursday, August 27, 2026 By…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-873538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873538","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=873538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}