Murray Auto Group donates $1M toward cardiac centre

As the Murray Auto Group celebrates their 100th anniversary, they decided to mark the occasion by donating one million dollars in support of the Bringing Hearts Home Cardiac Campaign at Chinook Regional Hospital. The goal of the campaign is that more patients across Southern Alberta can access advanced cardiac care closer to home, reducing the need to travel to Calgary.

“If our gift saves even one person’s life… well, you can’t put a price on that,” says Chris Murray of the Murray Auto Group.

Once completed, the Cardiac Centre’s enhancements will include:

  • A modernized ICU and redeveloped Coronary Care Unit with enhanced patient safety and infection-control design
  • Dedicated cardiac CT and MRI imaging capacity
  • Two cardiac catheterization labs
  • Two electrophysiology labs
  • Expanded cardiac diagnostics, including echo, stress testing, and Holter monitoringThe monetary goal of the campaign is $30M. This donation brings them to $26M.  

Jeannette Rocher

Born in Puerto Rico, raised in Minnesota and Manitoba, Jeannette has had the opportunity to live in a variety of places including New York, Arizona, and Nevada. After completing college and a paid internship with CBC Winnipeg, Jeannette embarked on her journalism career by moving overseas to take a job on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. While overseas she covered stories in Fiji, Guam and Japan including the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan and its surrounding islands. She covered a mass shooting, an Earth quake, murder cases and other substantial court cases. In 2013 she moved to Alberta where she covered the devastating floods of High River and Medicine Hat for CTV News. She then went on to produce and host Go! Southern Alberta for Shaw TV. She now calls Miracle Channel home. In addition to reporting in the field, you can catch her anchoring daily weather reports, as well as longer interview segments on BCN, and the week-in-review show on BCN Weekends. 

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