The Lake St. Peter Property Owners’ Association contributed $1,000 to the Back the Cat campaign on March 12. The LSPPOA’s Bonny McCleery Scanlan and Kim Bishop, chair of the Back the Cat campaign, talk about this contribution to the North Hastings Hospital’s campaign to get a CT scanner so that all locals in Bancroft and the surrounding neighborhoods can take advantage of it.
McCleery Scanlan informed Bancroft This Week that they consulted with Bishop and Tammy Davis on March 12 for the discussion of the $1,000 contribution to the Back the Cat campaign.
“We heard much more about the local health care issues that Quinte Health North Hastings Hospital contends with which has resulted in this campaign for Back the Cat,” she says.
The North Hastings Hospital’s fundraising effort to get a CT scanner for the medical facility is called Back the Cat, and its objective is to raise $2.5 million for this function. Having a CT scanner at the regional medical facility will make it possible for these diagnostic scans to be done here in Bancroft rather of sending out clients as much as 2 hours away to get these scans.
A CT scanner is a medical imaging strategy to obtain in-depth internal pictures of the body.
The Back the Cat campaign will help close a health care space that presently exists in neighborhoods throughout North Hastings. In addition to conserving lives, it likewise serves to bring in and maintain doctors in our neighborhood. Some 15,000 individuals in Bancroft and the surrounding locations utilize the services of the North Hastings Hospital.
Bishop says that they are really delighted to get acknowledgment from the Lake St. Peter Property Owners’ Association.
“A large portion of seasonal residents do not realize that our hospital does not have the same equipment as their hospital at home. Having a CT [scanner] in North Hastings will be a life saver for everyone; residents, seasonal residents and those passing through. We have worked hard to reach cottage associations with our message,” she says. “Thank you to Lake St. Peter [Property Owners’] Association for answering the call.”
Michael Riley, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Bancroft Times
