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By James Peters

RIH Foundation

Edmonton-based Stollery Foundation donates $750,000 to RIH Foundation for Patient Care Tower

Nov 5, 2019 | 10:52 AM

KAMLOOPS — The Stollery Charitable Foundation (SCF) has announced it will make a $750,000 donation to the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation.

The donation will be spread over the next four years and will go toward the new trauma inpatient unit being built into the RIH Patient Care Tower.

In a news release, the RIH Foundation says this is the SCF’s largest-ever donation in the Kamloops region.

Bob and Shirley Stollery established the SCF in Edmonton in 1994, and it has since awarded 560 grants totaling $36 million.

Shirley and Bob Stollery (Image Credit: RIH Foundation)

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According to the release, “SCF focuses on the needs of health, education, poverty alleviation and human rights.”

The Stollerys’ daughter Janet is a longtime Kamloops resident, along with her husband Spencer.

RIH is the third busiest trauma hospital in the province.

RIH Foundation chair Kerri Priddle says, “This generous donation will allow RIH to purchase top-of-the-line equipment, which will make a difference in patient care for years to come.”