September 11, 2007
Surrey Memorial Hospital Foundation > Media Room > September 11, 2007

BMO Financial Group commits $150,000 to Emergency Centre Campaign

Surrey, B.C. – A financial services organization marking its 190th anniversary has pledged $150,000 towards Surrey Memorial Hospital’s new Emergency Centre.
 

BMO Financial Group is a partner in Surrey Memorial Hospital Foundation’s $15 million Emergency Centre Campaign. BMO has agreed to sponsor a family quiet room, which will be located close to the Emergency Centre’s Trauma Unit.
 

Founded in 1817 as Bank of Montreal, today BMO Financial Group is a highly diversified financial services provider. The company offers clients a broad range of personal, commercial, corporate and institutional financial services across Canada and in the United States through BMO Bank of Montreal, BMO Nesbitt Burns, BMO Capital Markets and the Chicago-based subsidiary, Harris Bank.
 

Surrey Memorial Hospital’s current ER – the busiest in B.C. - was designed to handle about 44-thousand visits a year but has instead been seeing close to 70-thousand patients a year.
 

The new Emergency Centre, at triple the size of the current facility, will include a separate children’s ER, as well as a separate mental health and addictions area, an enhanced minor treatment unit, and an improved area for acute patients.

The B.C. government has committed to funding the essentials of a replacement to Surrey Memorial Hospital’s current E.R. The Foundation’s $15-million campaign will ensure the new Emergency Centre is state-of-the-art. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2008.

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For more information or interviews, contact:
Jason Howe
Public Affairs Director
Surrey Memorial Hospital Foundation
604-585-5666 ext 8284
cell: 604-613-6873
jason.howe[at]fraserhealth.ca