Provincial funding is helping to improve cardiac and cancer care in southwestern Ontario.
The government is investing 30-million dollars to renovate the cardiac catheterization lab at Windsor Regional Hospital where patients receive angiograms, angioplasties and other minimally invasive cardiac tests and procedures.
“Our government is giving Windsor Regional Hospital the funds it needs to provide the best possible care to patients in the region while we work towards building a new and modern hospital,” said Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health. “This means that patients in the area will no longer have to travel far distances to receive treatment, leading to faster care and improved quality of life.”
The funding will expand the catheterization lab, currently operating 24-hours a day, to add a second catheterization table offering continual and convenient access for cardiac patients in the region.
The hospital will also be able to expand its cancer centre to accommodate a new linear accelerator, which provides cancer patients with necessary radiation therapy treatment, allowing Windsor Regional to treat more cancer patients with life-saving radiation therapy.