Image: Mike Vanden Bosch / Pattison Media / The Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation wrote in an online newsletter on Friday, May 5 that the breast health clinic at Chilliwack General Hospital is now fully funded for an upcoming renovation and for clinical equipment attached to the breast health clinic.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Chilliwack Hospital breast health clinic

Breast health clinic at Chilliwack Hospital fully funded for renos, equipment

May 6, 2023 | 2:33 PM

CHILLIWACK — The Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation wrote in an online newsletter Friday (May 5) that the breast health clinic at Chilliwack General Hospital is now fully funded for renos and equipment.

“Thank you for supporting improved health care in the Fraser Valley East. The gifts we have received from individuals, families, businesses and organizations have positively impacted healthcare in our communities,” Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation wrote online. “Thanks to the caring of people like you, we are now fully funded for the renovation and equipment of the breast health clinic at Chilliwack General Hospital, and for the purchase of the CT scanner for Mission Memorial Hospital.”

Good things are happening elsewhere in the Fraser Valley on the health care front. Patients have to leave Chilliwack and Abbotsford and travel elsewhere in order to get a pacemaker, but that’s about to change.

“Currently, pacemakers are not implanted at any facility in the Fraser Valley East, meaning people requiring a pacemaker must leave our area,” the foundation wrote online. “[We are] pleased to announce that the Pacemaker Implant Program at Abbotsford Regional Hospital, as part of the Fraser Health Authority Implantable Cardiac Electrical Device (ICED) Program, will be active by September 2023. We continue to work to improve health care in our communities.”

The health care foundation says this new initiative will have a huge, positive impact on everyone in the Fraser Valley East who requires pacemaker implantation.

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“It is just another example of what can be achieved when we all work together,” Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation said. “Thank you for supporting improved health care in the Fraser Valley East.”