An area forest company is showing its support to the Beyond the Scan campaign at Lake of the Woods District Hospital.
Weyerhaeuser is donating $125,000 to the hospital foundation’s Beyond the Scan Campaign.
The campaign looks to raise $8.5 million for a state-of-the-art Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) suite, along with a new CATSscan and digital mammography equipment.
Weyerhaeuser’s donation is through its Community Grant Program and sees a $10,000 commitment from the local level and $115,000 from the national committee.
It is also the latest in a long list of donations made by the company for various healthcare and hospital-related campaigns over the last two decades.
The province approved Lake of the Woods District Hospital for an MRI unit last November.
Funding of up to $7.6 million for staffing and hospital renovations was committed.
Officials say the MRI will benefit patients across northwestern Ontario who have to travel long distances to access services.
The hospital hopes to have a new regional diagnostic imaging department fully equipped and operational this fall.
