Big Donation Hospital Opening
The new emergency department at Surrey Memorial Hospital got off on the right foot, with a landmark donation of $2M by prominent Fraser Valley entrepreneur Ralph Berezan. And now you can enter the building through the Lorraine and Ralph Berezan Lobby. (Luckily they're name doesn't have too many syllables, so it's not hard to tell the ambulance driver where to take you.) Ralph has been an active member of the Surrey Memorial Hospital Foundation's board for five years.
The opening of the department is the latest chapter in Surrey's growth, which we touched on the other day. The emergency department at the hospital is Canada's second-largest, located on the first floor of the eight-floor tower. The remaining floors of the tower are expected to open in June 2014. The emergency department has almost 100,000 visits per year. In the photo is Premier Christy Clark at the opening.
