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Globe says BCE makes final $1-million VGH donation

2015-01-27 07:39 ET - In the News

The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition the total capital cost for a new mental-health facility at Vancouver General Hospital is now fully funded. The Globe's Andrea Woo writes Bell Canada announced Monday it is donating the final $1-million to the $82-million Joseph and Rosalie Segal Family Centre, named after the philanthropic couple that earlier donated $12-million toward its construction. The province contributed $57-million. The eight-storey facility, slated to open in 2017, will not offer any new provincial beds, because the 100 beds will be transferred from the existing 70-year-old facility and elsewhere within VGH. However, the private patient rooms, each with their own bathrooms, will be a marked improvement from the existing facility, which has four people to a room, with one shared bathroom on each floor. At VGH and St. Paul's Hospital, emergency room visits for mental health and substance misuse have increased by 55 per cent in the past five years, reaching 15,450 in 2014. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and Police Chief Jim Chu have labelled the situation a "crisis," pleading for more assistance from the provincial government.

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