Erie Shores HealthCare in Leamington has started demolition work on a new wing of the hospital where a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine will be housed.
“MRIs are taking about 380 days for non-priority patients,” said hospital president and CEO Kristin Kennedy. “We hope that this will help with that.”
A substantial donation for the MRI project was announced during a media conference Tuesday.
“The community needs this hospital to survive,” said Mathew Iacobelli whose family (owners of Unico and Primo Foods) donated $1 million to the MRI project.
Iacobelli and his sister, Sandra Macera, attended the news conference and took the inaugural swings of the sledgehammers to begin the demolition — on behalf of their parents.
“They’re always happy to give back to the community and there’s such a need in the community for this and hopefully other people will feel like giving back as well,” said Macera.
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