PENTICTON – A long time Penticton businessman has again opened his wallet to benefit local hospital patients.
Dave Kampe is donating $3 million to help bring a permanent magnetic resonance imaging machine to the new tower that will be built at PRH.
Currently, a mobile MRI van at the hospital two weeks each month serves patients in the south Okanagan and Similkameen.
“Getting the appropriate imaging examination in a timely fashion can be critical in making the correct diagnosis and initiating lifesaving treatment,” says Dr. Stacey Piche, a radiologist at the Penticton hospital. “As health care providers and members of this community, we are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to put this medical technology to use.”
Last year, Kampe gifted $2 million to a $20 million campaign to provide medical equipment for the new tower.
In 2011, he donated a one hectare parcel of land immediately south of the hospital, valued at $1.5 million, for future health care use.
“My intention is to have Penticton Regional Hospital become a state of the art facility in the Interior and I hope that others will join in and help make this wish a reality,” says Kampe in a news release.
Kampe is the owner of Peters Bros Construction and Inland Contracting.
“Mr. Kampe is a long-time and very active supporter of our community and this wonderful additional donation is just another example of his incredible generosity in supporting the health and well-being of local residents,” says Penticton MLA Dan Ashton.
The $312.5 million patient care tower is expected to open in 2019.