CARDIAC CARE @ NYGHdid you know?

EXCELLENCE IN CARDIAC CARE

Supporting Cardiac CareEquipment at North York General

Your gift will help cardiac patients in our community.

Cardiac Care at North York General

Our community relies on North York General’s expertise in cardiac care. Our team of health care professionals are trained to treat every situation – from emergency cardiac episodes to ongoing heart function and pacemaker care, to cardiac rehabilitation.

Our Cardiology Program supports patients with diverse cardiac needs, offering the following clinics: Arrhythmia, Pacemaker, Heart Failure, Rapid Cardiology Assessment, Supportive Cardiology, Heart Function and Pacemaker, and Cardiac Rehab.

In Ontario, 80 per cent of hospital care is delivered at community hospitals like North York General. As our community ages and grows, so will the incidence of heart disease.

Our patients and their families are counting on us to provide a full spectrum of cardiac services, close to home. But we can’t do it without you.

While the government funds many aspects of our patients’ health care experience, it is your donations that fund critical equipment replacements, state-of-the-art technology and upgrades throughout our hospital.

Without your support we simply would not be able to offer the advanced level of care that our patients need.

Your gift will help us provide patients with leading-edge cardiac care through essential cardiac equipment, improving our patients’ health and quality of life.

• NYGH’s Heart Function Clinic sees over 3,500 patients each year

Contact

Charitable Business Number: 888 751245 RR0001 nyghfoundation.on.ca

Lana ManoharanDevelopment AssociateNYGH Foundation

416-756-6829Lana.Manoharan@nygh.on.ca

North York General Foundation4001 Leslie StreetToronto, ON M2K 1E1nyghfoundation.ca

You can have a lasting impact on patient care by helping upgrade technology where it counts the most: your community hospital.

You can help us go beyond care.

Please donate today.

Going Beyond Care is about providing our patients with the very highest standard of care with the same compassion that we would show our loved ones.

Going beyond care is what we do at North York General – but we couldn’t do it without you.

Complete the enclosed gift form - Send your renewed support via mail in the postage-paid envelope provided and make an impact right away.

Call the Foundation at 416-756-6944 today.

Donate Online - The quickest way to make an impact is to give online, at www.nyghfoundation.ca.

• Our Supportive Cardiology Program is one of the first of its kind in Canada to give patients with end-stage heart disease access to advance care planning and specialized palliative care services

• Heart failure is the leading cause of hospital admissions for adults 65 and older

• NYGH’s North York Integrated Care Collaboarative is a revolutionary model of care for patients living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Congestive Heart Failure

UNIT WITH

4D TEE PROBEEchocardiograms help our health care team make important assessments about a patient’s heart function. From the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to departments throughout our hospital, the echocardiography unit is a critical diagnostic and monitoring tool for patients of all ages.

Our current unit has reached the end of its life cycle and urgently needs to be replaced with advanced technology, including a special 4D tee probe that lets our team see real-time renderings of the heart. Your support will ensure that North York General has the next generation of advanced imaging tools.

1 needed at $285,600

When investigating patients for strokes, our team uses an electroencephalogram (EEG) test that helps view and interpret the brain’s electrical signals. It takes an additional set of electrodes called a ‘headbox’ to record a patient’s brainwaves. Your support will help bring a new electrode headbox to our Critical Care, Stroke and Paediatrics team, so they can diagnose and asses patients quickly, to make life-saving treatment plans.

EEGELECTRODE HEADBOX

1 needed at $17,920

STRESS TEST

SYSTEM UNIT

2 needed at $47,040 each

Cardiac stress tests use treadmills and monitoring systems to measure the heart’s ability to respond to exercise-induced stress, helping our health care team diagnose cardiac conditions.

At 13 years old, our current stress test systems need frequent service and repairs. Your support will help bring two new treadmill systems to our hospital, meaning that patients can get the answers they need to maintain their heart health, and a quicker start to treatment.

Nuclear cardiology studies use dedicated workstations with specialized software to assess blood flow, evaluate the heart and visualize the size and location of a heart attack. Our entire fleet of workstations are at the end of their life cycle and must be replaced immediately to avoid down time.

Your investment in nuclear cardiology will help bring state-of-the-art workstations with increased processing power and advanced imaging.

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

DEFIBRILLATORS

Echocardiogram (ECG)

MACHINESEvery patient who comes through our emergency room doors with cardiac issues, from simple palpitations to arrest or arrhythmia, needs an ECG — a diagnostic test that helps visualize the heart. An ECG is most often performed immediately after a patient is triaged and is a critical part of identifying those in need of urgent treatment. Our current ECG machines are at the end of their life spans and must be replaced.

Defibrillators save lives during cardiac distress by shocking the heart back into a normal rhythm. Our current machines are aging and need to be replaced to ensure that our health care team can continue to provide life-saving care when every second counts.

2 needed at $46,000 each

4 needed at $63,840 each

NUCLEAR CAMERA

WORK STATIONS

5 needed at $68,544 each

TEE

PROBETransesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a test that uses high-frequency sound waves to make a detailed picture of a patient’s heart when a physician wants to see more information than a standard echocardiogram can give. Our current TEE probe has reached the end of its life cycle and has to be repaired often, meaning that patients are forced to either wait for testing or travel to other hospitals. Your donation toward a new TEE probe means that we will offer timely procedures to patients in our community.

1 needed at $68,320

Computerized tomography (CT) scanning is a powerful tool that takes a series of x-ray images from different angles. Technicians rely on post-processing technology to combine these images into an integrated visual of a patient’s body.

With your help, we will upgrade our existing system to improve visualization on bone scans and allow us to take complicated cardiac scans that are not currently possible.

CT POST-PROCESSING

UPGRADE 1 needed at $57,120

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