REGINA – A big announcement Tuesday for the Saskatchewan Children’s Hospital project.
PIC Investment Group and the Yuel family donated a combined $2.25 million to the first children’s hospital in Saskatchewan.
The money will create an outdoor patient play area to give sick kids a break treatment.
“If it helps just one of our employee’s family members, it’s worth it,” said Greg Yuel, president and CEO of PIC Investment Group.
“We’re giving this gift to the province to make what is an awful experience just that much less awful.”
The Children’s Hospital Foundation also released the latest blueprints for the four storey building, which was in part designed by kids themselves.
Health Minister Dustin Duncan says they wanted input from kids on what would make a hospital experience better for them.
“The Children’s Hospital, as well as the new hospital in Moose Jaw, really speaks to a new way of not just building facilities, but how we design them,” said Duncan.
“It shows how we put the patent first, and the family first in all facets of the build.”
It will still be a couple of months before the blueprints are final.
They plan to break ground on the hospital in 2014, and open the doors in 2016.
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