Okotoks Health & Wellness Centre to receive X-Ray Machine

Mar 29, 2011 by kimpomares

Okotoks Health and Wellness Centre to receive $40,000.00 X-Ray Machine courtesy of Sheep River Health Trust

Submitted by Melissa Pryor

The Sheep River Health Trust is pleased to announce that they have met and exceeded all of their fundraising goals for 2010. With this success, they were able to fund a second Kodak CR Reader, valued at $40,000.00 for the Okotoks Diagnostic Imaging Department.

A Kodak CR Reader is the machine used to take a patient’s x-ray. Currently, the Okotoks Health and Wellness Centre Diagnostic Imaging Department sees approximately 1200 patients per month. They have one machine that is used for drop in patients with a requisition and patients sent from Urgent Care. Technical difficulties are to be expected and from time to time, the machine goes down and the department is forced to send patients to another facility for their x-ray.

Through supporting the provision of a second Kodak CR Reader, the Trust is ensuring that our rural patients receive quality healthcare when they need it without having to be sent off-site for a simple procedure.

Since 1994, the Sheep River Health Trust, formerly known as the Oilfields/Okotoks Health Foundation, has raised over $2.5 million for health-related programs, services and equipment urgently needed in our local area. Last year alone, the Trust raised $300,000 to help deliver optimal health care to our communities. If you would like to support rural health care in your community, please call us at (403) 995-5400.