By Angela Brown

Candlelight Processional gives BUH Foundation heartfelt gift

Dec 16, 2017 | 8:21 AM

The Candlelight Processional organizers gave the Battlefords Union Hospital (BUH) Foundation an early Christmas gift this year – support for the hospital’s new cardiac monitoring system (CMS).

Representatives presented a cheque for $4,365 to the BUH Foundation in a special ceremony Thursday.

Paul Sayers, who co-produced the Candlelight Processional show with his wife Pauline, said the funds were collected through ticket sales from the event.

“It went very, very well,” Sayers said. “We had over 400 people at the performances [altogether].” 

This is the second year for the narrated musical adaptation focusing on themes from the story of the birth of Jesus.  About 70 people made up the show’s ensemble – a large choir and several musicians, including a bagpipe player.  

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The singers came from a variety of Battlefords area community groups and churches. 

Last year funds raised from the Candlelight Processional event supported both the BUH Foundation as well as Battlefords Trade and Education Centre.

Heartfelt gift

Representatives from the BUH Foundation said they were grateful to receive the donation from again this year.

“It is a beautiful performance and wonderful way to enjoy the Christmas season,” BUH Foundation fund development officer Shauna McGifford said.  

The donation will add to the coffers of the BUH Foundation’s ‘We Don’t Want to Miss a Beat’ capital campaign. The campaign, McGifford said, is aimed at raising funds to replace and upgrade the current CMS that monitors patients wearing Telemetry packs to diagnose heart conditions.  

These packs allow patients to be more mobile in the hospital so they can move to different departments for testing, for example, and still have their ECG, respiratory rate and blood oxygen levels continuously monitored by an emergency room or intensive-care-unit nurse or physician.

“Being continuously monitored helps to provide an immediate response to any cardiac or respiratory symptom abnormalities,” McGifford said. 
  

angela.brown@jpbg.ca

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